1Sa 21:4 And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

1Sa 21:5 And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.

1Sa 21:6 So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

1Sa 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.

1Sa 21:8 And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

1Sa 21:9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that; give it to me.

1Sa 21:10 Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

1Sa 21:11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?

1Sa 21:12 And David took these words to heart, fearing Achish, the king of Gath.

1Sa 21:13 So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin.

1Sa 21:14 Then Achish said to his servants, Look! the man is clearly off his head; why have you let him come before me?

1Sa 21:15 Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?

1Sa 22:1 So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.

1Sa 22:2 And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

1Sa 22:3 And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.

1Sa 22:4 And he took them to the king of Moab and they went on living with him while David was in his safe place.

1Sa 22:5 And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

1Sa 22:6 And news was given to Saul that David had been seen, and the men who were with him: now Saul was in Gibeah, seated under the tree in the high place, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were in their places before him.

1Sa 22:7 Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands;

1Sa 22:8 That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?

1Sa 22:9 Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was by the side of the servants of Saul, in answer said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub.

1Sa 22:10 And he got directions from the Lord for him, and gave him food, and put in his hand the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

1Sa 22:11 Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and for all the men of his father's family who were priests in Nob: and they all came to the king.

1Sa 22:12 And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.

1Sa 22:13 And Saul said to him, Why have you made designs against me with the son of Jesse, giving him food and a sword and getting directions from the Lord for him, and helping him to take up arms against me, and to be on the watch to make a secret attack on me as he is doing now?

1Sa 22:14 Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?

1Sa 22:15 Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.

1Sa 22:16 And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.

1Sa 22:17 Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

1Sa 22:18 Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.

1Sa 22:19 And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

1Sa 22:20 And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;

1Sa 22:21 And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.

1Sa 22:22 And David said to Abiathar, I was certain that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would take the news to Saul: I am responsible for the lives of all your father's family.

1Sa 22:23 Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

1Sa 23:1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

1Sa 23:2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.

1Sa 23:3 And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

1Sa 23:4 Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.

1Sa 23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.

1Sa 23:6 Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.

1Sa 23:7 And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.

1Sa 23:8 And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.

1Sa 23:9 And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

1Sa 23:10 Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

1Sa 23:11 And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.

1Sa 23:12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

1Sa 23:13 Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.

1Sa 23:14 And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.

1Sa 23:15 And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.

1Sa 23:16 And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God;

1Sa 23:17 And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.

1Sa 23:18 And the two of them made an agreement before the Lord: and David went on living in Horesh, and Jonathan went back to his house.

1Sa 23:19 Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?

1Sa 23:20 So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.

1Sa 23:21 And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me.

1Sa 23:22 Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit.

1Sa 23:23 So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

1Sa 23:24 And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.

1Sa 23:25 And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.

1Sa 23:26 And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

1Sa 23:27 But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.

1Sa 23:28 So turning back from going after David, Saul went against the Philistines: so that place was named Sela-hammah-lekoth.

1Sa 23:29 And from there, David went up and took cover in the safe place of En-gedi.

1Sa 24:1 Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

1Sa 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.

1Sa 24:3 And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.

1Sa 24:4 And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.

1Sa 24:5 And later, David was full of regret for cutting off Saul's skirt.

1Sa 24:6 And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.

1Sa 24:7 So with these words David kept his servants back, and did not let them make an attack on Saul. And Saul got up and went on his way.

1Sa 24:8 And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

1Sa 24:9 And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong?

1Sa 24:10 Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

1Sa 24:11 And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

1Sa 24:12 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

1Sa 24:13 There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

1Sa 24:14 After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.

1Sa 24:15 So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.

1Sa 24:16 Now when David had said these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, David, my son? And Saul was overcome with weeping.

1Sa 24:17 And he said to David, You are right and I am wrong: for you have given me back good, but I have given you evil.

1Sa 24:18 And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.

1Sa 24:19 If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.

1Sa 24:20 And now I am certain that you will be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be made strong under your authority.

1Sa 24:21 So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.

1Sa 24:22 And David gave Saul his oath. And Saul went back to his house; but David and his men went up to their safe place.

1Sa 25:1 And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.

1Sa 25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

1Sa 25:3 Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.

1Sa 25:4 And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.

1Sa 25:5 And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;

1Sa 25:6 And say this to my brother, May all be well for you: peace be to you and your house and all you have.

1Sa 25:7 I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

1Sa 25:8 If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.

1Sa 25:9 And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.

1Sa 25:10 And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.

1Sa 25:11 Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?

1Sa 25:12 So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.

1Sa 25:13 And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

1Sa 25:14 But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.

1Sa 25:15 But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:

1Sa 25:16 But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

1Sa 25:17 So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

1Sa 25:18 Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

1Sa 25:19 And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

1Sa 25:20 Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.

1Sa 25:21 Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

1Sa 25:22 May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.

1Sa 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.

1Sa 25:24 And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.

1Sa 25:25 Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

1Sa 25:26 So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal.

1Sa 25:27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

1Sa 25:28 And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.

1Sa 25:29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

1Sa 25:30 And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

1Sa 25:31 Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.

1Sa 25:32 And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:

1Sa 25:33 A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

1Sa 25:34 For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

1Sa 25:35 Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

1Sa 25:36 And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

1Sa 25:37 And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.

1Sa 25:38 And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

1Sa 25:39 And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

1Sa 25:40 And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.

1Sa 25:41 And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

1Sa 25:42 Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.

1Sa 25:43 And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.

1Sa 25:44 Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish of Gallim.

1Sa 26:1 And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, and said, Is not David waiting secretly near us in the hill of Hachilah, before the waste land?

1Sa 26:2 Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.

1Sa 26:3 And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.

1Sa 26:4 And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.

1Sa 26:5 And David got up and came to the place where Saul's tents were: and David had a view of the place where Saul was sleeping with Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts, and the tents of the people were all round him.

1Sa 26:6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me to the tents of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.

1Sa 26:7 So David and Abishai came down to the army by night: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts with his spear planted in the earth by his head: and Abner and the people were sleeping round him.

1Sa 26:8 Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.

1Sa 26:9 And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?

1Sa 26:10 And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.

1Sa 26:11 Never will my hand be stretched out against the man marked with the holy oil; but take the spear which is by his head and the vessel of water, and let us go.

1Sa 26:12 So David took the spear and the vessel of water from Saul's head; and they got away without any man seeing them, or being conscious of their coming, or awaking; for they were all sleeping because a deep sleep from the Lord had come on them.

1Sa 26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;

1Sa 26:14 And crying out to the people and to Abner, the son of Ner, David said, Have you no answer to give, Abner? Then Abner said, Who is that crying out to the king?

1Sa 26:15 And David said to Abner, Are you not a man of war? is there any other like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for one of the people came in to put the king your lord to death.

1Sa 26:16 What you have done is not good. By the living Lord, death is the right fate for you, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil. Now see, where is the king's spear, and the vessel of water which was by his head?

1Sa 26:17 And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.

1Sa 26:18 And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

1Sa 26:19 Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

1Sa 26:20 Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.

1Sa 26:21 Then Saul said, I have done wrong: come back to me, David my son: I will do you no more wrong, because my life was dear to you today truly, I have been foolish and my error is very great.

1Sa 26:22 Then David said, Here is the king's spear! let one of the young men come over and get it.

1Sa 26:23 And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.

1Sa 26:24 And so, as your life was dear to me today, may my life be dear to the Lord, and may he make me free from all my troubles.

1Sa 26:25 Then Saul said to David, May a blessing be on you, David, my son; you will do great things and without doubt you will overcome. Then David went on his way, and Saul went back to his place.

1Sa 27:1 And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

1Sa 27:2 So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

1Sa 27:3 And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

1Sa 27:4 And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer.

1Sa 27:5 Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.

1Sa 27:6 So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.

1Sa 27:7 And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

1Sa 27:8 And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.

1Sa 27:9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

1Sa 27:10 And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.

1Sa 27:11 Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.

1Sa 27:12 And Achish had belief in what David said, saying, He has made himself hated by all his people Israel, and so he will be my servant for ever.

1Sa 28:1 Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

1Sa 28:2 And David said to Achish, You will see now what your servant will do. And Achish said to David, Then I will make you keeper of my head for ever.

1Sa 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel, after weeping for him, had put his body in its last resting-place in Ramah, his town. And Saul had put away from the land all those who had control of spirits and who made use of secret arts.

1Sa 28:4 And the Philistines came together and put their forces in position in Shunem; and Saul got all Israel together and they took up their positions in Gilboa.

1Sa 28:5 And when Saul saw the Philistine army he was troubled, and his heart was moved with fear.

1Sa 28:6 And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

1Sa 28:7 Then Saul said to his servants, Get me a woman who has control of a spirit so that I may go to her and get directions. And his servants said to him, There is such a woman at En-dor.

1Sa 28:8 So Saul, putting on other clothing, so that he might not be seen to be the king, took two men with him and went to the woman by night; and he said, Now, with the help of the spirit which you have, make the person whose name I will give you come up.

1Sa 28:9 And the woman said to him, But you have knowledge of what Saul has done, how he has put away out of the land those who have control of spirits and the users of secret arts: why would you, by a trick, put me in danger of death?

1Sa 28:10 And Saul made an oath to her by the Lord, saying, By the living Lord, no punishment will come to you for this.

1Sa 28:11 Then the woman said, Who am I to let you see? And he said, Make Samuel come up for me.

1Sa 28:12 And the woman saw that it was Saul, and she gave a loud cry, and said to Saul, Why have you made use of deceit? for you are Saul.

1Sa 28:13 And the king said to her, Have no fear: what do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.

1Sa 28:14 And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, It is an old man coming up covered with a robe. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and with his face bent down to the earth he gave him honour.

1Sa 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

1Sa 28:16 And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?

1Sa 28:17 And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

1Sa 28:18 Because you did not do what the Lord said, and did not give effect to his burning wrath against Amalek. So the Lord has done this thing to you today.

1Sa 28:19 And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

1Sa 28:20 Then Saul went down flat on the earth, and was full of fear because of Samuel's words: and there was no strength in him, for he had taken no food all that day or all that night.

1Sa 28:21 And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was in great trouble, and said to him, See now, your servant has given ear to your words, and I have put my life in danger by doing what you said.

1Sa 28:22 So now, give ear to the voice of your servant, and let me give you a little bread; and take some food to give you strength when you go on your way.

1Sa 28:23 But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.

1Sa 28:24 And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

1Sa 28:25 And she put it before Saul and his servants, and they had a meal. Then they got up and went away the same night.

1Sa 29:1 Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.

1Sa 29:2 And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.

1Sa 29:3 Then the rulers of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews doing here? And Achish said to the rulers of the Philistines, Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me for a year or two, and I have never seen any wrong in him from the time when he came to me till now?

1Sa 29:4 But the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him, and said to him, Make the man go back to the place you have given him; do not let him go down with us to the fight, or he may be turned against us and be false to us: for how will this man make peace with his lord? will it not be with the heads of these men?

1Sa 29:5 Is this not David, who was named in their songs, when in the dance they said to one another, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?

1Sa 29:6 Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you.

1Sa 29:7 So now go back, and go in peace, so that you do not make the lords of the Philistines angry.

1Sa 29:8 And David said to Achish, But what have I done? what have you seen in your servant while I have been with you till this day, that I may not go and take up arms against those who are now making war on my lord the king?

1Sa 29:9 And Achish in answer said, It is true that in my eyes you are good, like an angel of God: but still, the rulers of the Philistines have said, He is not to go up with us to the fight.

1Sa 29:10 So get up early in the morning, with the servants of your lord who are with you, and go to the place I have given you, and have no evil design in your heart, for you are good in my eyes; but when there is light enough in the morning, go away.

1Sa 29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

1Sa 30:1 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;

1Sa 30:2 And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

1Sa 30:3 And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.

1Sa 30:4 Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

1Sa 30:5 And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.

1Sa 30:6 And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

1Sa 30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David.

1Sa 30:8 Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.

1Sa 30:9 So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.

1Sa 30:10 And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.

1Sa 30:11 And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;

1Sa 30:12 And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.

1Sa 30:13 And David said to him, Whose man are you and where do you come from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master went on without me because three days back I became ill.

1Sa 30:14 We made an attack on the south part of the country of the Cherethites, and on the land which is Judah's, and on the south of Caleb; and we put Ziklag on fire.

1Sa 30:15 And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.

1Sa 30:16 And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

1Sa 30:17 And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.

1Sa 30:18 And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.

1Sa 30:19 There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.

1Sa 30:20 And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.

1Sa 30:21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

1Sa 30:22 Then the bad and good-for-nothing men among those who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the goods which we have got back, but only to every man his wife and children, so that he may take them and go.

1Sa 30:23 Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.

1Sa 30:24 Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.

1Sa 30:25 And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.

1Sa 30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;

1Sa 30:27 He sent to those who were in Beth-el, and in Ramah of the South, and in Jattir;

1Sa 30:28 And to those in Arara and Eshtemoa

1Sa 30:29 and Carmel and in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, and in the towns of the Kenites;

1Sa 30:30 And to those who were in Hormah and in Bor-ashan and in Athach;

1Sa 30:31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

1Sa 31:1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

1Sa 31:2 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

1Sa 31:3 And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.

1Sa 31:4 Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.

1Sa 31:5 And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and was united with him in death.

1Sa 31:6 So death overtook Saul and his three sons and his servant on the same day.

1Sa 31:7 And when the men of Israel across the valley and on the other side of Jordan saw that the army of Israel was in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they came out of their towns and went in flight; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.

1Sa 31:8 Now on the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his three sons dead on the earth in Mount Gilboa.

1Sa 31:9 And cutting off his head and taking away his war-dress, they sent word into the land of the Philistines round about, to take the news to their gods and to the people.

1Sa 31:10 His war-dress they put in the house of Astarte; and his body was fixed on the wall of Beth-shan.

1Sa 31:11 And when the people of Jabesh-gilead had news of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1Sa 31:12 All the fighting men got up and, travelling all night, took Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and had them burned there.

1Sa 31:13 And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.

2Sa 1:1 Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;

2Sa 1:2 On the third day a man came from Saul's tents, with his clothing out of order and earth on his head: and when he came to David, he went down on the earth and gave him honour.

2Sa 1:3 And David said to him, Where have you come from? And he said, I have come in flight from the tents of Israel.

2Sa 1:4 And David said to him, How did things go? Give me the news. And in answer he said, The people have gone in flight from the fight, and a great number of them are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.

2Sa 1:5 And David said to the young man who gave him the news, Why are you certain that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?

2Sa 1:6 And the young man said, I came by chance to Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul supporting himself on his spear; and the war-carriages and horsemen overtook him.

2Sa 1:7 And looking back, he saw me and gave a cry to me. And answering him I said, Here am I.

2Sa 1:8 And he said to me, Who are you? And I said, I am an Amalekite.

2Sa 1:9 Then he said to me, Come here to my side, and put me to death, for the pain of death has me in its grip but my life is still strong in me.

2Sa 1:10 So I put my foot on him and gave him his death-blow, because I was certain that he would not go on living after his fall: and I took the crown from his head and the band from his arm, and I have them here for my lord.

2Sa 1:11 Then David gave way to bitter grief, and so did all the men who were with him:

2Sa 1:12 And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.

2Sa 1:13 And David said to the young man who had given him the news, Where do you come from? And he said, I am the son of a man from a strange land; I am an Amalekite.

2Sa 1:14 And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?

2Sa 1:15 And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

2Sa 1:16 And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

2Sa 1:17 Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

2Sa 1:18 (It is recorded in the book of Jashar for teaching to the sons of Judah) and he said:

2Sa 1:19 The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!

2Sa 1:20 Give no news of it in Gath, let it not be said in the streets of Ashkelon; or the daughters of the Philistines will be glad, the daughters of men without circumcision will be uplifted in joy.

2Sa 1:21 O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

2Sa 1:22 From the blood of the dead, from the fat of the strong, the bow of Jonathan was not turned back, the sword of Saul did not come back unused.

2Sa 1:23 Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

2Sa 1:24 O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.

2Sa 1:25 How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.

2Sa 1:26 I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.

2Sa 1:27 How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken!

2Sa 2:1 Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron.

2Sa 2:2 So David went there, taking with him his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

2Sa 2:3 And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron.

2Sa 2:4 And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.

2Sa 2:5 And David sent to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, May the Lord give you his blessing, because you have done this kind act to Saul your lord, and have put his body to rest!

2Sa 2:6 May the Lord be good and true to you: and I myself will see that your kind act is rewarded, because you have done this thing.

2Sa 2:7 Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.

2Sa 2:8 Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim,

2Sa 2:9 And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

2Sa 2:10 (Saul's son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was ruler for two years.) But Judah was on the side of David.

2Sa 2:11 And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months.

2Sa 2:12 And Abner, the son of Ner, with the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2Sa 2:13 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool.

2Sa 2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.

2Sa 2:15 So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

2Sa 2:16 And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon.

2Sa 2:17 And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.

2Sa 2:18 There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.

2Sa 2:19 Asahel went running after Abner, not turning to the right or to the left.

2Sa 2:20 Then Abner, looking back, said, Is it you, Asahel? And he said, It is I.

2Sa 2:21 And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.

2Sa 2:22 Then again Abner said to Asahel, Go to one side, do not keep on coming after me: why will you make me put an end to you? for then I will be shamed before your brother Joab.

2Sa 2:23 But still he did not go to one side: so Abner gave him a back blow in the stomach with his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he went down on the earth, wounded to death: and all those who came to the place where Asahel went down dead, came to a stop.

2Sa 2:24 But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba.

2Sa 2:25 And the men of Benjamin came together after Abner in one band, and took their places on the top of a hill.

2Sa 2:26 Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

2Sa 2:27 And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.

2Sa 2:28 So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.

2Sa 2:29 And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.

2Sa 2:30 And Joab came back from fighting Abner: and when he had got all his men together, it was seen that nineteen of David's men, in addition to Asahel, were not with them.

2Sa 2:31 But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

2Sa 2:32 And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.

2Sa 3:1 Now there was a long war between Saul's people and David's people; and David became stronger and stronger, but those on Saul's side became more and more feeble.

2Sa 3:2 While David was in Hebron he became the father of sons: the oldest was Amnon, son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;

2Sa 3:3 And the second, Chileab, whose mother was Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom, son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

2Sa 3:4 And the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

2Sa 3:5 And the sixth, Ithream, whose mother was David's wife Eglah. These were the sons of David, whose birth took place in Hebron.

2Sa 3:6 Now while there was war between Saul's people and David's people, Abner was making himself strong among the supporters of Saul.

2Sa 3:7 Now Saul had among his wives a woman named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Why have you taken my father's wife?

2Sa 3:8 And Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, Am I a dog's head of Judah? I am this day doing all in my power for the cause of your father Saul and for his brothers and his friends, and have not given you up into the hands of David, and now you say I have done wrong with a woman.

2Sa 3:9 May God's punishment be on Abner, if I do not for David as the Lord in his oath has said,

2Sa 3:10 And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!

2Sa 3:11 And so great was Ish-bosheth's fear of Abner that he was not able to say a word in answer.

2Sa 3:12 And Abner sent men to David at Hebron, saying, Make an agreement with me, and I will give you my support in getting all Israel on your side.

2Sa 3:13 And he said, It is well; I will make an agreement with you, but on one condition, which is, that when you come before me, Saul's daughter Michal is to come with you; till she comes you will not see my face.

2Sa 3:14 And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.

2Sa 3:15 So Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel, the son of Laish.

2Sa 3:16 And her husband went with her as far as Bahurim, weeping while he went. Then Abner said to him, Go back. And he went back.

2Sa 3:17 Then Abner had a talk with the chief men of Israel, saying, In the past it was your desire to make David your king: so now, do it:

2Sa 3:18 For the Lord has said of David, By the hand of my servant David I will make my people Israel safe from the Philistines, and from all who are against them.

2Sa 3:19 And Abner said the same things to Benjamin: and he went to David in Hebron to make clear to him what seemed good to Israel and to all the people of Benjamin.

2Sa 3:20 So Abner, with twenty men, came to Hebron, to David. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

2Sa 3:21 And Abner said to David, Now I will go, and make all Israel come to my lord the king, so that they may make an agreement with you, and your kingdom may be as wide as your heart's desire. Then David sent Abner away and he went in peace.

2Sa 3:22 Now the servants of David and Joab had been out attacking a band of armed men, and they came back with a great store of goods taken in the fight: but Abner was no longer in Hebron with David, for he had sent him away and he had gone in peace.

2Sa 3:23 When Joab and his men came, news was given them that Abner, the son of Ner, had come to the king, who had let him go away again in peace.

2Sa 3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? when Abner came to you why did you send him away and let him go?

2Sa 3:25 Is it not clear to you that Abner, the son of Ner, came with deceit to get knowledge of your going out and your coming in and of all you are doing?

2Sa 3:26 And when Joab had come out from David, he sent men after Abner, and they overtook him at the water-spring of Sirah, and made him come back with them: but David had no knowledge of it.

2Sa 3:27 And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

2Sa 3:28 And when David had word of it he said, May I and my kingdom be clear for ever in the eyes of the Lord from the blood of Abner, the son of Ner:

2Sa 3:29 May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!

2Sa 3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

2Sa 3:31 And David said to Joab and all the people who were with him, Go in grief and put haircloth about you, in sorrow for Abner. And King David went after the dead body.

2Sa 3:32 And they put Abner's body to rest in Hebron; and the king and all the people were weeping loudly by the resting-place of Abner's body.

2Sa 3:33 And the king made a song of grief for Abner and said, Was the death of Abner to be like the death of a foolish man?

2Sa 3:34 Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.

2Sa 3:35 And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!

2Sa 3:36 And all the people took note of it and were pleased: like everything the king did, it was pleasing to the people.

2Sa 3:37 So it was clear to Israel and to all the people on that day that the king was not responsible for the death of Abner, the son of Ner.

2Sa 3:38 And the king said to his servants, Do you not see that a chief and a great man has come to his end today in Israel?

2Sa 3:39 While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!

2Sa 4:1 And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

2Sa 4:2 And Saul's son had two men, captains of bands, one named Baanah and the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the tribe of Benjamin; (for Beeroth was at one time taken to be part of Benjamin:

2Sa 4:3 But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.)

2Sa 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son whose feet were damaged. He was five years old when news of the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and the woman who took care of him took him up and went in flight: and while she was getting him away as quickly as she was able, he had a fall and his feet were damaged. His name was Mephibosheth.

2Sa 4:5 And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.

2Sa 4:6 And Rechab and his brother Baanah got in without being seen.

2Sa 4:7 And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

2Sa 4:8 And they took the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul your hater, who would have taken your life; the Lord has taken payment for the wrongs of my lord the king from Saul and his seed today.

2Sa 4:9 And David made answer to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, By the living Lord, who has kept me safe from all my trouble,

2Sa 4:10 When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:

2Sa 4:11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

2Sa 4:12 And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.

2Sa 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

2Sa 5:2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

2Sa 5:3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

2Sa 5:4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,

2Sa 5:5 Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

2Sa 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.

2Sa 5:7 But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

2Sa 5:8 And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.

2Sa 5:9 So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.

2Sa 5:10 And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.

2Sa 5:11 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

2Sa 5:12 And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel.

2Sa 5:13 And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

2Sa 5:14 These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

2Sa 5:15 And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia

2Sa 5:16 And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

2Sa 5:17 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.

2Sa 5:18 And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

2Sa 5:19 And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

2Sa 5:20 And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.

2Sa 5:21 And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

2Sa 5:22 And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

2Sa 5:23 And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.

2Sa 5:24 Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

2Sa 5:25 And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

2Sa 6:1 And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

2Sa 6:2 And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones.

2Sa 6:3 And they put the ark of God on a new cart and took it out of the house of Abinadab which was on the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were the drivers of the cart.

2Sa 6:4 And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it.

2Sa 6:5 And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.

2Sa 6:6 And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control.

2Sa 6:7 And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

2Sa 6:8 And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day.

2Sa 6:9 And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

2Sa 6:10 So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

2Sa 6:11 And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.

2Sa 6:12 And they said to King David, The blessing of the Lord is on the family of Obed-edom and on all he has, because of the ark of God. And David went and took the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the town of David with joy.

2Sa 6:13 And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast.

2Sa 6:14 And David, clothed in a linen ephod, was dancing before the Lord with all his strength.

2Sa 6:15 So David and all the men of Israel took up the ark of the Lord with cries of joy and sounding of horns.

2Sa 6:16 And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

2Sa 6:17 And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

2Sa 6:18 And after David had made the burned offerings and the peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord of armies.

2Sa 6:19 And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

2Sa 6:20 Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame!

2Sa 6:21 And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;

2Sa 6:22 And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour.

2Sa 6:23 And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no child till the day of her death.

2Sa 7:1 Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

2Sa 7:2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

2Sa 7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.

2Sa 7:4 Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

2Sa 7:5 Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

2Sa 7:6 For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent.

2Sa 7:7 In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

2Sa 7:8 Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

2Sa 7:9 And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

2Sa 7:10 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first,

2Sa 7:11 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.

2Sa 7:12 And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

2Sa 7:13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

2Sa 7:14 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

2Sa 7:15 But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

2Sa 7:16 And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

2Sa 7:17 So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.

2Sa 7:18 Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

2Sa 7:19 And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

2Sa 7:20 What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.

2Sa 7:21 Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.

2Sa 7:22 Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

2Sa 7:23 And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

2Sa 7:24 But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

2Sa 7:25 And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said!

2Sa 7:26 And let your name be made great for ever, and let men say, The Lord of armies is God over Israel: and let the family of David your servant be made strong before you!

2Sa 7:27 For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.

2Sa 7:28 And now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are true and you have said you will give your servant this good thing;

2Sa 7:29 So may it be your pleasure to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you: (for you, O Lord God, have said it,) and may your blessing be on your servant's family line for ever!

2Sa 8:1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.

2Sa 8:2 And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.

2Sa 8:3 And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.

2Sa 8:4 And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

2Sa 8:5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.

2Sa 8:6 And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

2Sa 8:7 And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.

2Sa 8:8 And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

2Sa 8:9 And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,

2Sa 8:10 He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:

2Sa 8:11 These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--

2Sa 8:12 The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

2Sa 8:13 And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

2Sa 8:14 And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

2Sa 8:15 And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.

2Sa 8:16 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;

2Sa 8:17 And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

2Sa 8:18 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.

2Sa 9:1 And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?

2Sa 9:2 Now there was of Saul's people a servant named Ziba, and they sent him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am.

2Sa 9:3 And the king said, Is there anyone of Saul's family still living, to whom I may be a friend in God's name? And Ziba said, There is a son of Jonathan, whose feet are damaged.

2Sa 9:4 And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, He is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.

2Sa 9:5 Then King David sent, and had him taken from Lo-debar, from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel.

2Sa 9:6 And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, came to David, and falling down on his face, gave him honour. And David said, Mephibosheth. And answering he said, Your servant is here.

2Sa 9:7 And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.

2Sa 9:8 And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?

2Sa 9:9 Then the king sent for Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, All the property of Saul and of his family I have given to your master's son.

2Sa 9:10 And you and your sons and your servants are to take care of the land for him, and get in the fruit of it, so that your master's son may have food: but Mephibosheth, your master's son, will have a place at my table at all times. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2Sa 9:11 Then Ziba said to the king, Every order which you have given to your servant will be done. As for Mephibosheth, he had a place at David's table, like one of the king's sons.

2Sa 9:12 And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica. And all the people living in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.

2Sa 9:13 So Mephibosheth went on living in Jerusalem; for he took all his meals at the king's table; and he had not the use of his feet.

2Sa 10:1 Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his son, became king in his place.

2Sa 10:2 And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

2Sa 10:3 But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

2Sa 10:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and after cutting off half the hair on their chins, and cutting off the skirts of their robes up to the middle, he sent them away.

2Sa 10:5 When David had news of it, he sent men out with the purpose of meeting them on their way, for the men were greatly shamed: and the king said, Go to Jericho till your hair is long again, and then come back.

2Sa 10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.

2Sa 10:7 And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

2Sa 10:8 And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

2Sa 10:9 Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position against him in front and at his back, he took the best of the men of Israel and put them in line against the Aramaeans;

2Sa 10:10 And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon, with Abishai, his brother, at their head.

2Sa 10:11 And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

2Sa 10:12 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

2Sa 10:13 Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

2Sa 10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

2Sa 10:15 And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they got themselves together.

2Sa 10:16 And Hadadezer sent for the Aramaeans who were on the other side of the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach, the captain of Hadadezer's army, at their head.

2Sa 10:17 And word of this was given to David: and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam. And the Aramaeans put their forces in position against David, and made an attack on him.

2Sa 10:18 And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.

2Sa 10:19 And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became their servants. So the Aramaeans, in fear, gave no more help to the children of Ammon.

2Sa 11:1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

2Sa 11:2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

2Sa 11:3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?

2Sa 11:4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.

2Sa 11:5 And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.

2Sa 11:6 And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

2Sa 11:7 And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going.

2Sa 11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.

2Sa 11:9 But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

2Sa 11:10 And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?

2Sa 11:11 And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.

2Sa 11:12 And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.

2Sa 11:13 And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

2Sa 11:14 Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.

2Sa 11:15 And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.

2Sa 11:16 So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.

2Sa 11:17 And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

2Sa 11:18 Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

2Sa 11:19 And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,

2Sa 11:20 If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?

2Sa 11:21 Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.

2Sa 11:22 So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?

2Sa 11:23 And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.

2Sa 11:24 And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.

2Sa 11:25 Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

2Sa 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.

2Sa 11:27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

2Sa 12:1 And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.

2Sa 12:2 The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

2Sa 12:3 But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

2Sa 12:4 Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.

2Sa 12:5 And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:

2Sa 12:6 And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

2Sa 12:7 And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

2Sa 12:8 I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.

2Sa 12:9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2Sa 12:10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

2Sa 12:11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

2Sa 12:12 You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.

2Sa 12:13 And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

2Sa 12:14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.

2Sa 12:15 Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.

2Sa 12:16 So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

2Sa 12:17 And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

2Sa 12:18 And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?

2Sa 12:19 But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.

2Sa 12:20 Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

2Sa 12:21 Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.

2Sa 12:22 And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

2Sa 12:23 But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.

2Sa 12:24 And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.

2Sa 12:25 And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.

2Sa 12:26 Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.

2Sa 12:27 And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.

2Sa 12:28 So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.

2Sa 12:29 Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.

2Sa 12:30 And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.

2Sa 12:31 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

2Sa 13:1 Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

2Sa 13:2 And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

2Sa 13:3 But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother: and Jonadab was a very wise man.

2Sa 13:4 And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

2Sa 13:5 Then Jonadab said to him, Go to your bed, and let it seem that you are ill: and when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread, and get the food ready before my eyes, so that I may see it and take it from her hand.

2Sa 13:6 So Amnon went to bed and made himself seem ill: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let my sister Tamar come and make me one or two cakes before my eyes, so that I may take food from her hand.

2Sa 13:7 Then David sent to the house for Tamar and said, Go now to your brother Amnon's house and get a meal for him.

2Sa 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.

2Sa 13:9 And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out.

2Sa 13:10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom.

2Sa 13:11 And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister.

2Sa 13:12 And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.

2Sa 13:13 What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you.

2Sa 13:14 But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.

2Sa 13:15 Then Amnon was full of hate for her, hating her with a hate greater than his earlier love for her. And he said to her, Get up and be gone.

2Sa 13:16 And she said to him, Not so, my brother, for this great wrong in sending me away is worse than what you did to me before. But he gave no attention to her.

2Sa 13:17 Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her.

2Sa 13:18 Now she had on a long robe, such as in past times the king's virgin daughters were dressed in. Then the servant put her out, locking the door after her.

2Sa 13:19 And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.

2Sa 13:20 And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.

2Sa 13:21 But when King David had news of all these things he was very angry; but he did not make trouble for Amnon his son, for he was dear to David, being his oldest son.

2Sa 13:22 But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

2Sa 13:23 Now after two full years, Absalom had men cutting the wool of his sheep in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim: and he sent for all the king's sons to come to his feast.

2Sa 13:24 And Absalom came to the king and said, See now, your servant is cutting the wool of his sheep; will the king and his servants be pleased to come?

2Sa 13:25 And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.

2Sa 13:26 Then Absalom said, If you will not go, then let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Is there any reason for him to go with you?

2Sa 13:27 But Absalom went on requesting him till he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. And Absalom made a great feast like a feast for a king.

2Sa 13:28 Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

2Sa 13:29 So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.

2Sa 13:30 Now while they were on their way, news was given to David that Absalom had put to death all the sons of the king and that not one of them was still living.

2Sa 13:31 Then the king got up in great grief, stretching himself out on the earth: and all his servants were by his side, with their clothing parted.

2Sa 13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, Let not my lord have the idea that all the sons of the king have been put to death; for only Amnon is dead: this has been purposed by Absalom from the day when he took his sister Tamar by force.

2Sa 13:33 So now, let not my lord the king take this thing to heart, with the idea that all the king's sons are dead: for only Amnon is dead.

2Sa 13:34 But Absalom went in flight. And the young man who kept the watch, lifting up his eyes, saw that a great band of people was coming down the slope by the way of the Horons; and the watchman came and gave word to the king, saying, I saw men coming down by the way of the Horons, from the hillside.

2Sa 13:35 And Jonadab said to the king, See, the king's sons are coming; as your servant said, so it is.

2Sa 13:36 And while he was talking, the king's sons came, with weeping and loud cries: and the king and all his servants were weeping bitterly.

2Sa 13:37 So Absalom went in flight and came to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur, where he was for three years.

2Sa 13:38 And the king was sorrowing for his son all the time.

2Sa 13:39 And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.

2Sa 14:1 Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom.

2Sa 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

2Sa 14:3 And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

2Sa 14:4 And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.

2Sa 14:5 And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

2Sa 14:6 And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

2Sa 14:7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

2Sa 14:8 And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.

2Sa 14:9 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, may the sin be on me and on my family, and may the king and the seat of his kingdom be clear of sin!

2Sa 14:10 And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.

2Sa 14:11 Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

2Sa 14:12 Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.

2Sa 14:13 And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)

2Sa 14:14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

2Sa 14:15 And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

2Sa 14:16 For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

2Sa 14:17 Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!

2Sa 14:18 Then the king said to the woman, Now give me an answer to the question I am going to put to you; keep nothing back. And the woman said, Let my lord the king say on.

2Sa 14:19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:

2Sa 14:20 This he did, hoping that the face of this business might be changed: and my lord is wise, with the wisdom of the angel of God, having knowledge of everything on earth.

2Sa 14:21 And the king said to Joab, See now, I will do this thing: go then and Come back with the young man Absalom.

2Sa 14:22 Then Joab, falling down on his face on the earth, gave the king honour and blessing; and Joab said, Today it is clear to your servant that I have grace in your eyes, my lord king, because the king has given effect to the request of his servant.

2Sa 14:23 So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.

2Sa 14:24 And the king said, Let him go to his house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom went back to his house and did not see the face of the king.

2Sa 14:25 Now in all Israel there was no one so greatly to be praised for his beautiful form as Absalom: from his feet to the crown of his head he was completely beautiful.

2Sa 14:26 And when he had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

2Sa 14:27 And Absalom was the father of three sons and of one daughter named Tamar, who was very beautiful.

2Sa 14:28 For two full years Absalom was living in Jerusalem without ever seeing the face of the king.

2Sa 14:29 Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

2Sa 14:30 So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire.

2Sa 14:31 Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?

2Sa 14:32 And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.

2Sa 14:33 So Joab went to the king and said these words to him: and when the king had sent for him, Absalom came, and went down on his face on the earth before the king: and the king gave him a kiss.

2Sa 15:1 Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

2Sa 15:2 And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

2Sa 15:3 And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.

2Sa 15:4 And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!

2Sa 15:5 And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.

2Sa 15:6 And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.

2Sa 15:7 Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:

2Sa 15:8 For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.

2Sa 15:9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

2Sa 15:10 But Absalom at the same time sent watchers through all the tribes of Israel to say, At the sound of the horn you are to say, Absalom is king in Hebron.

2Sa 15:11 And with Absalom, at his request, went two hundred men from Jerusalem, who were completely unconscious of his designs.

2Sa 15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.

2Sa 15:13 And one came to David and said, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.

2Sa 15:14 And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.

2Sa 15:15 And the king's servants said to the king, See, your servants are ready to do whatever the king says is to be done.

2Sa 15:16 So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

2Sa 15:17 And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.

2Sa 15:18 And all the people went on by his side; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the men of Ittai of Gath, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, went on before the king.

2Sa 15:19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.

2Sa 15:20 It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

2Sa 15:21 And Ittai the Gittite in answer said, By the living Lord, and by the life of my lord the king, in whatever place my lord the king may be, for life or death, there will your servant be.

2Sa 15:22 And David said to Ittai, Go forward, then. And Ittai the Gittite went on, with all his men and all the little ones he had with him.

2Sa 15:23 And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.

2Sa 15:24 Then Zadok came, and Abiathar, and with them the ark of God's agreement: and they put down the ark of God, till all the people from the town had gone by.

2Sa 15:25 And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again:

2Sa 15:26 But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.

2Sa 15:27 The king said further to Zadok the priest, See, you and Abiathar are to go back to the town in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz, your son, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar.

2Sa 15:28 See, I will be waiting at the way across the river, in the waste land, till I get news from you.

2Sa 15:29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

2Sa 15:30 And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

2Sa 15:31 And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.

2Sa 15:32 Now when David had come to the top of the slope, where they gave worship to God, Hushai the Archite came to him in great grief with dust on his head:

2Sa 15:33 David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:

2Sa 15:34 But if you go back to the town and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as in the past I have been your father's servant, so now I will be yours: then you will be able to keep Ahithophel's designs against me from being put into effect.

2Sa 15:35 And have you not there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? so whatever comes to your ears from the king's house, give word of it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

2Sa 15:36 See, they have with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar; by them you may send word to me of everything which comes to your ears.

2Sa 15:37 So Hushai, David's friend, went into the town, and Absalom came to Jerusalem.

2Sa 16:1 And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

2Sa 16:2 And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.

2Sa 16:3 And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.

2Sa 16:4 Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!

2Sa 16:5 And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.

2Sa 16:6 And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left.

2Sa 16:7 And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:

2Sa 16:8 The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.

2Sa 16:9 Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.

2Sa 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him go on cursing, for the Lord has said, Put a curse on David, and who then may say, Why have you done so?

2Sa 16:11 And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.

2Sa 16:12 It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

2Sa 16:13 So David and his men went on their way: and Shimei went by the hillside parallel with them, cursing and sending stones and dust at him.

2Sa 16:14 And the king and his people came tired to Jordan, and took their rest there.

2Sa 16:15 And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

2Sa 16:16 Then Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom and said, Long life to the king, long life to the king!

2Sa 16:17 And Absalom said, Is this your love for your friend? why did you not go with your friend?

2Sa 16:18 And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.

2Sa 16:19 And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.

2Sa 16:20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?

2Sa 16:21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

2Sa 16:22 So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

2Sa 16:23 In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.

2Sa 17:1 Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

2Sa 17:2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

2Sa 17:3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

2Sa 17:4 And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.

2Sa 17:5 Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.

2Sa 17:6 And when Hushai came, Absalom said to him, This is what Ahithophel has said: are we to do as he says? if not, what is your suggestion?

2Sa 17:7 And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.

2Sa 17:8 Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

2Sa 17:9 But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.

2Sa 17:10 Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

2Sa 17:11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

2Sa 17:12 Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

2Sa 17:13 And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.

2Sa 17:14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

2Sa 17:15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.

2Sa 17:16 So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.

2Sa 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.

2Sa 17:18 But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.

2Sa 17:19 And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.

2Sa 17:20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.

2Sa 17:21 Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.

2Sa 17:22 So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

2Sa 17:23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.

2Sa 17:24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

2Sa 17:25 And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

2Sa 17:26 And Israel and Absalom put up their tents in the land of Gilead.

2Sa 17:27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2Sa 17:28 Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

2Sa 17:29 And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

2Sa 18:1 And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.

2Sa 18:2 And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

2Sa 18:3 But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.

2Sa 18:4 And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

2Sa 18:5 And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.

2Sa 18:6 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.

2Sa 18:7 And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

2Sa 18:8 And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.

2Sa 18:9 And Absalom came across some of David's men. And Absalom was seated on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great tree, and his head became fixed in the tree and he was lifted up between earth and heaven, and the beast under him went on.

2Sa 18:10 And a certain man saw it and said to Joab, I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.

2Sa 18:11 And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe?

2Sa 18:12 And the man said to Joab, Even if you gave me a thousand bits of silver, I would not put out my hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king gave orders to you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take care that the young man Absalom is not touched.

2Sa 18:13 And if I had falsely put him to death (and nothing may be kept secret from the king), you would have had nothing to do with me.

2Sa 18:14 Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

2Sa 18:15 And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

2Sa 18:16 And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.

2Sa 18:17 And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.

2Sa 18:18 Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

2Sa 18:19 Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said, Let me go and give the king news of how the Lord has done right in his cause against those who took up arms against him.

2Sa 18:20 And Joab said, You will take no news today; another day you may give him the news, but you will take no news today, because the king's son is dead.

2Sa 18:21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, Go and give the king word of what you have seen. And the Cushite, making a sign of respect to Joab, went off running.

2Sa 18:22 Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said to Joab again, Whatever may come of it, let me go after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why have you a desire to go, my son, seeing that you will get no reward for your news?

2Sa 18:23 Whatever may come of it, he said, I will go. Then he said to him, Go. So Ahimaaz went running by the lowland road and overtook the Cushite.

2Sa 18:24 Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself.

2Sa 18:25 And the watchman gave news of it to the king. And the king said, If he is coming by himself, then he has news. And the man was travelling quickly, and came near.

2Sa 18:26 Then the watchman saw another man running: and crying out in the direction of the door he said, Here is another man running by himself. And the king said, He, like the other, comes with news.

2Sa 18:27 And the watchman said, It seems to me that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and his news will be good.

2Sa 18:28 And Ahimaaz, crying out to the king, said, It is well. And falling down before the king, with his face to the earth, he said, May the Lord your God be praised, who has given up the men who took up arms against my lord the king!

2Sa 18:29 And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz said in answer, When Joab sent me, your servant, I saw a great outcry going on, but I had no knowledge of what it was.

2Sa 18:30 And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.

2Sa 18:31 And then the Cushite came and said, I have news for my lord the king: today the Lord has done right in your cause against all those who took up arms against you.

2Sa 18:32 And the king said to the Cushite, Is the young man Absalom safe? And the Cushite said in answer, May all the king's haters and those who do evil against the king, be as that young man is!

2Sa 18:33 Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

2Sa 19:1 And word was given to Joab that the king was weeping and sorrowing for Absalom.

2Sa 19:2 And the salvation of that day was changed to sorrow for all the people: for it was said to the people, The king is in bitter grief for his son.

2Sa 19:3 And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.

2Sa 19:4 But the king, covering his face, gave a great cry, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

2Sa 19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king and said, Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants who even now have kept you and your sons and your daughters and your wives and all your women safe from death;

2Sa 19:6 For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.

2Sa 19:7 So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

2Sa 19:8 Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.

2Sa 19:9 And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.

2Sa 19:10 And Absalom, whom we made a ruler over us, is dead in the fight. So now why do you say nothing about getting the king back? And word of what all Israel was saying came to the king.

2Sa 19:11 And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?

2Sa 19:12 You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

2Sa 19:13 And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

2Sa 19:14 And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.

2Sa 19:15 So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.

2Sa 19:16 And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, got up quickly and went down with the men of Judah for the purpose of meeting King David;

2Sa 19:17 And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,

2Sa 19:18 And kept going across the river to take the people of the king's house over, and to do whatever was desired by the king. And Shimei, the son of Gera, went down on his face in the dust before the king, when he was about to go over Jordan,

2Sa 19:19 And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.

2Sa 19:20 For your servant is conscious of his sin: and so, as you see, I have come today, the first of all the sons of Joseph, for the purpose of meeting my lord the king.

2Sa 19:21 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said, Is not death the right fate for Shimei, because he has been cursing the one marked by the holy oil?

2Sa 19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you put yourselves against me today? is it right for any man in Israel to be put to death today? for I am certain today that I am king in Israel.

2Sa 19:23 So the king said to Shimei, You will not be put to death. And the king gave him his oath.

2Sa 19:24 And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.

2Sa 19:25 Now when he had come from Jerusalem to see the king, the king said to him, Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?

2Sa 19:26 And he said in answer, Because of the deceit of my servant, my lord king: for I, your servant, said to him, You are to make ready an ass and on it I will go with the king, for your servant has not the use of his feet.

2Sa 19:27 He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.

2Sa 19:28 For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

2Sa 19:29 And the king said, Say nothing more about these things. I say, Let there be a division of the land between Ziba and you.

2Sa 19:30 And Mephibosheth said, Let him take it all, now that my lord the king has come back to his house in peace!

2Sa 19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went on as far as Jordan with the king to take him across Jordan.

2Sa 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

2Sa 19:33 And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem.

2Sa 19:34 And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?

2Sa 19:35 I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

2Sa 19:36 Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?

2Sa 19:37 Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.

2Sa 19:38 And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.

2Sa 19:39 Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.

2Sa 19:40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him: and all the people of Judah, as well as half the people of Israel, took the king on his way.

2Sa 19:41 Then the men of Israel came to the king and said, Why have our countrymen of Judah taken you away in secret and come over Jordan with the king and all his family, because all his people are David's men?

2Sa 19:42 And all the men of Judah gave this answer to the men of Israel, Because the king is our near relation: why then are you angry about this? have we taken any of the king's food, or has he given us any offering?

2Sa 19:43 And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

2Sa 20:1 Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

2Sa 20:2 So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

2Sa 20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

2Sa 20:4 Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.

2Sa 20:5 So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.

2Sa 20:6 And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.

2Sa 20:7 So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2Sa 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came face to face with them. Now Joab had on his war-dress, and round him a band from which his sword was hanging in its cover; and while he was walking, it came out, falling to the earth.

2Sa 20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.

2Sa 20:10 But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2Sa 20:11 And one of Joab's young men, taking his place at Amasa's side, said, Whoever is for Joab and for David, let him go after Joab!

2Sa 20:12 And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.

2Sa 20:13 When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2Sa 20:14 And Sheba went through all the tribes of Israel, to Abel of Beth-maacah; and all the Bichrites came together and went in after him.

2Sa 20:15 And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

2Sa 20:16 Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

2Sa 20:17 And he came near, and the woman said, Are you Joab? And he said in answer, I am. Then she said, Give ear to your servant's words. And he said, I am giving ear.

2Sa 20:18 Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end?

2Sa 20:19 Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

2Sa 20:20 And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;

2Sa 20:21 Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.

2Sa 20:22 Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

2Sa 20:23 Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

2Sa 20:24 And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;

2Sa 20:25 And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

2Sa 20:26 And in addition, Ira the Jairite was a priest to David.

2Sa 21:1 In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

2Sa 21:2 Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives:)

2Sa 21:3 So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?

2Sa 21:4 And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not a question of silver and gold between us and Saul or his family; and it is not in our power to put to death any man in Israel. And he said, Say, then, what am I to do for you?

2Sa 21:5 And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,

2Sa 21:6 Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

2Sa 21:7 But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.

2Sa 21:8 But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

2Sa 21:9 And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.

2Sa 21:10 And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

2Sa 21:11 And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.

2Sa 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:

2Sa 21:13 And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.

2Sa 21:14 And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.

2Sa 21:15 And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

2Sa 21:16 And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.

2Sa 21:17 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.

2Sa 21:18 Now after this there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Saph, one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

2Sa 21:19 And again there was war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan, the son of Jair the Beth-lehemite, put to death Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.

2Sa 21:20 And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

2Sa 21:21 And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.

2Sa 21:22 These four were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; and they came to their end by the hands of David and his servants.

2Sa 22:1 And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

2Sa 22:2 And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

2Sa 22:3 My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

2Sa 22:4 I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

2Sa 22:5 For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

2Sa 22:6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

2Sa 22:7 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears.

2Sa 22:8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

2Sa 22:9 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.

2Sa 22:10 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

2Sa 22:11 And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

2Sa 22:12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

2Sa 22:13 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.

2Sa 22:14 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.

2Sa 22:15 And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

2Sa 22:16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

2Sa 22:17 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

2Sa 22:18 He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

2Sa 22:19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

2Sa 22:20 He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

2Sa 22:21 The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

2Sa 22:22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

2Sa 22:23 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

2Sa 22:24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

2Sa 22:25 Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

2Sa 22:26 On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

2Sa 22:27 He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

2Sa 22:28 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

2Sa 22:29 For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

2Sa 22:30 By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

2Sa 22:31 As for God, his way is all good: the word of the Lord is tested; he is a safe cover for all those who put their faith in him.

2Sa 22:32 For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

2Sa 22:33 God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

2Sa 22:34 He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

2Sa 22:35 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

2Sa 22:36 You have given me the breastplate of your salvation, and your mercy has made me great.

2Sa 22:37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

2Sa 22:38 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

2Sa 22:39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

2Sa 22:40 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

2Sa 22:41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

2Sa 22:42 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

2Sa 22:43 Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

2Sa 22:44 You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

2Sa 22:45 Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.

2Sa 22:46 They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

2Sa 22:47 The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:

2Sa 22:48 It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

2Sa 22:49 He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

2Sa 22:50 Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.

2Sa 22:51 Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

2Sa 23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man who was lifted up on high, the man on whom the God of Jacob put the holy oil, the loved one of Israel's songs, says:

2Sa 23:2 The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.

2Sa 23:3 The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

2Sa 23:4 It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

2Sa 23:5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

2Sa 23:6 But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

2Sa 23:7 But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.

2Sa 23:8 These are the names of David's men of war: Ishbaal the Hachmonite, chief of the three; his axe was lifted up against eight hundred put to death at one time.

2Sa 23:9 After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight,

2Sa 23:10 He was with David and went on fighting the Philistines till his hand became tired and stiff from gripping his sword: and that day the Lord gave a great salvation, and the people came back after him only to take the goods of the Philistines.

2Sa 23:11 After him was Shammah, the son of Ela the Hararite. And the Philistines came together in Lehi, where there was a bit of land full of seed; and the people went in flight from the Philistines.

2Sa 23:12 But he kept his place in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack and overcame the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great salvation.

2Sa 23:13 And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

2Sa 23:14 And at that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.

2Sa 23:15 And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town!

2Sa 23:16 And the three men, forcing their way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David: but he would not take it, but, draining it out, made an offering of it to the Lord.

2Sa 23:17 And he said, Far be it from me, O Lord, to do this; how may I take as my drink the life-blood of men who have put their lives in danger? So he would not take it. These things did the three great men of war.

2Sa 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. He put to death three hundred with his spear, and he got for himself a name among the thirty.

2Sa 23:19 Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.

2Sa 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:

2Sa 23:21 And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

2Sa 23:22 These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

2Sa 23:23 He was honoured over the rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe.

2Sa 23:24 Asahel, the brother of Joab, was one of the thirty; and Elhanan, the son of Dodai, of Beth-lehem,

2Sa 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

2Sa 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

2Sa 23:27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Sibbecai the Hushathite,

2Sa 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

2Sa 23:29 Heldai, the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

2Sa 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the valleys of Gaash,

2Sa 23:31 Abiel the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Bahurim,

2Sa 23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, Jashen the Gunite,

2Sa 23:33 Jonathan, the son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam, the son of Sharar the Hararite,

2Sa 23:34 Eliphelet, the son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, Eliam, the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

2Sa 23:35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Archite,

2Sa 23:36 Igal, the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

2Sa 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, who had the care of the arms of Joab, son of Zeruiah,

2Sa 23:38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

2Sa 23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in number.

2Sa 24:1 Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah.

2Sa 24:2 And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.

2Sa 24:3 And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing?

2Sa 24:4 But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel.

2Sa 24:5 And they went over Jordan, and starting from Aroer, from the town which is in the middle of the valley, they went in the direction of the Gadites, and on to Jazer;

2Sa 24:6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of the Hittites under Hermon; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they came round to Zidon,

2Sa 24:7 And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

2Sa 24:8 So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2Sa 24:9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

2Sa 24:10 And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

2Sa 24:11 And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

2Sa 24:12 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, and I will do it to you.

2Sa 24:13 So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.

2Sa 24:14 And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

2Sa 24:15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

2Sa 24:16 And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2Sa 24:17 And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.

2Sa 24:18 And that day Gad came to David and said to him, Go up, and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2Sa 24:19 So David went up, as Gad had said and as the Lord had given orders.

2Sa 24:20 And Araunah, looking out, saw the king and his servants coming to him: and Araunah went out, and went down on his face to the earth before the king.

2Sa 24:21 And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To give you a price for your grain-floor, so that I may put up an altar to the Lord, and the disease may be stopped among the people.

2Sa 24:22 And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:

2Sa 24:23 All this does the servant of my lord the king give to the king. And Araunah said, May the Lord your God be pleased with your offering!

2Sa 24:24 And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will give you a price for it; I will not give to the Lord my God burned offerings for which I have given nothing. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2Sa 24:25 And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.

1Ki 1:1 Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

1Ki 1:2 So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm.

1Ki 1:3 So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.

1Ki 1:4 Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.

1Ki 1:5 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

1Ki 1:6 Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.

1Ki 1:7 And he had talk with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they were on his side and gave him their support.

1Ki 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.

1Ki 1:9 Then Adonijah put to death sheep and oxen and fat beasts by the stone of Zoheleth, by En-rogel; and he sent for all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants, to come to him:

1Ki 1:10 But he did not send for Nathan the prophet and Benaiah and the other men of war and Solomon his brother.

1Ki 1:11 Then Nathan said to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon, Has it not come to your ears that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has made himself king without the knowledge of David our lord?

1Ki 1:12 So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.

1Ki 1:13 Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

1Ki 1:14 And while you are still talking there with the king, see, I will come in after you and say that your story is true.

1Ki 1:15 Then Bath-sheba went into the king's room; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was waiting on him.

1Ki 1:16 And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?

1Ki 1:17 And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

1Ki 1:18 And now, see, Adonijah has made himself king without my lord's knowledge;

1Ki 1:19 And has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the captain of the army; but he has not sent for Solomon your servant.

1Ki 1:20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

1Ki 1:21 For as things are, it will come about, when my lord the king is sleeping with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son will be made outlaws.

1Ki 1:22 And while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

1Ki 1:23 And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.

1Ki 1:24 And Nathan said, O my lord king, have you said, Adonijah is to be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom?

1Ki 1:25 Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!

1Ki 1:26 But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not sent for.

1Ki 1:27 Has this thing been done by my lord the king, without giving word to your servants who was to be placed on my lord the king's seat after him?

1Ki 1:28 Then King David in answer said, Send for Bath-sheba to come to me. And she came in and took her place before the king.

1Ki 1:29 And the king took an oath, and said, By the living Lord, who has been my saviour from all my troubles,

1Ki 1:30 As I took an oath to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, Certainly Solomon your son will become king after me, seated on my seat in my place; so will I do this day.

1Ki 1:31 Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.

1Ki 1:32 And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

1Ki 1:33 And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and put Solomon my son on my beast, yes, mine, and take him down to Gihon;

1Ki 1:34 And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon!

1Ki 1:35 Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

1Ki 1:36 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, answering the king, said, So be it: and may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so.

1Ki 1:37 As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon and make the seat of his authority greater than that of my lord King David.

1Ki 1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and put Solomon on King David's beast and took him to Gihon.

1Ki 1:39 And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!

1Ki 1:40 And all the people came up after him, piping with pipes, and they were glad with great joy, so that the earth was shaking with the sound.

1Ki 1:41 And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?

1Ki 1:42 And while the words were on his lips, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest, came; and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a man of good faith and the news which you have for us will be good.

1Ki 1:43 And Jonathan, answering, said to Adonijah, Not so, but our lord King David has made Solomon king:

1Ki 1:44 And he sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they put him on the king's beast:

1Ki 1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him and made him king in Gihon; and they came back from there with joy, and the town was all worked up. This is the noise which has come to your ears.

1Ki 1:46 And now Solomon is seated on the seat of the kingdom.

1Ki 1:47 And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

1Ki 1:48 Then the king said, May the God of Israel be praised, who has given one of my seed to be king in my place this day and has let my eyes see it.

1Ki 1:49 And all the guests of Adonijah got up in fear and went away, every man to his place.

1Ki 1:50 And Adonijah himself was full of fear because of Solomon; and he got up and went to the altar, and put his hands on its horns.

1Ki 1:51 And they gave Solomon word of it, saying, See, Adonijah goes in such fear of King Solomon, that he has put his hands on the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon first give me his oath that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.

1Ki 1:52 And Solomon said, If he is seen to be a man of good faith, not a hair of him will be touched; but if any wrongdoing is seen in him, he is to be put to death.

1Ki 1:53 So King Solomon sent, and they took him down from the altar. And he came and gave honour to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.

1Ki 2:1 Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,

1Ki 2:2 I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;

1Ki 2:3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

1Ki 2:4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

1Ki 2:5 Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.

1Ki 2:6 So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

1Ki 2:7 But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.

1Ki 2:8 Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword.

1Ki 2:9 But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.

1Ki 2:10 Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

1Ki 2:11 David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1Ki 2:12 And Solomon took his place on the seat of David his father, and his kingdom was made safe and strong.

1Ki 2:13 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, came to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, Come you in peace? And he said, Yes, in peace.

1Ki 2:14 Then he said, I have something to say to you. And she said, Say on.

1Ki 2:15 And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.

1Ki 2:16 Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.

1Ki 2:17 Then he said, Will you go to Solomon the king (for he will not say, No, to you) and put before him my request that he will give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife?

1Ki 2:18 And Bath-sheba said, Good! I will make your request to the king.

1Ki 2:19 So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.

1Ki 2:20 Then she said, I have one small request to make to you; do not say, No, to me. And the king said, Say on, my mother, for I will not say, No, to you.

1Ki 2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.

1Ki 2:22 Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.

1Ki 2:23 Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.

1Ki 2:24 Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.

1Ki 2:25 And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.

1Ki 2:26 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.

1Ki 2:27 So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.

1Ki 2:28 And news of this came to Joab; for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters, though he had not been on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of the Lord, and put his hands on the horns of the altar.

1Ki 2:29 And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him.

1Ki 2:30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.

1Ki 2:31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.

1Ki 2:32 And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

1Ki 2:33 So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.

1Ki 2:34 So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.

1Ki 2:35 And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.

1Ki 2:36 Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Make a house for yourself in Jerusalem and keep there and go to no other place.

1Ki 2:37 For be certain that on the day when you go out and go over the stream Kidron, death will overtake you: and your blood will be on your head.

1Ki 2:38 And Shimei said to the king, Very well! as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And for a long time Shimei went on living in Jerusalem.

1Ki 2:39 But after three years, two of the servants of Shimei went in flight to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And word was given to Shimei that his servants had gone to Gath.

1Ki 2:40 Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.

1Ki 2:41 And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.

1Ki 2:42 Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you take an oath by the Lord, protesting to you and saying, Be certain that on the day when you go out from here, wherever you go, death will overtake you? and you said to me, Very well!

1Ki 2:43 Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the order which I gave you?

1Ki 2:44 And the king said to Shimei, You have knowledge of all the evil which you did to David my father; and now the Lord has sent back your evil on yourself.

1Ki 2:45 But a blessing will be on King Solomon, and the kingdom of David will keep its place before the Lord for ever.

1Ki 2:46 So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.

1Ki 3:1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

1Ki 3:2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

1Ki 3:3 And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

1Ki 3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

1Ki 3:5 In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.

1Ki 3:6 And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

1Ki 3:7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

1Ki 3:8 And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

1Ki 3:9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

1Ki 3:10 Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.

1Ki 3:11 And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

1Ki 3:12 I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

1Ki 3:13 And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.

1Ki 3:14 And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

1Ki 3:15 And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

1Ki 3:16 Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

1Ki 3:17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

1Ki 3:18 And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.

1Ki 3:19 In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

1Ki 3:20 And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

1Ki 3:21 And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

1Ki 3:22 And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.

1Ki 3:23 Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.

1Ki 3:24 Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.

1Ki 3:25 And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

1Ki 3:26 Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

1Ki 3:27 Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

1Ki 3:28 And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

1Ki 4:1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

1Ki 4:2 And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;

1Ki 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;

1Ki 4:4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1Ki 4:5 Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;

1Ki 4:6 Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.

1Ki 4:7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.

1Ki 4:8 And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

1Ki 4:9 ... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;

1Ki 4:10 ... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;

1Ki 4:11 ... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.

1Ki 4:12 Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;

1Ki 4:13 ... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.

1Ki 4:14 Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

1Ki 4:15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;

1Ki 4:16 Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;

1Ki 4:17 Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

1Ki 4:18 Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

1Ki 4:19 Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.

1Ki 4:20 Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

1Ki 4:21 And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

1Ki 4:22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

1Ki 4:23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

1Ki 4:24 For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.

1Ki 4:25 So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

1Ki 4:26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1Ki 4:27 And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.

1Ki 4:28 And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.

1Ki 4:29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

1Ki 4:30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1Ki 4:31 For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.

1Ki 4:32 He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.

1Ki 4:33 He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

1Ki 4:34 People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.

1Ki 5:1 Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.

1Ki 5:2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

1Ki 5:3 You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

1Ki 5:4 But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.

1Ki 5:5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

1Ki 5:6 So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

1Ki 5:7 And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

1Ki 5:8 Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

1Ki 5:9 My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.

1Ki 5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

1Ki 5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

1Ki 5:12 Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.

1Ki 5:13 Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

1Ki 5:14 And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.

1Ki 5:15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

1Ki 5:16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.

1Ki 5:17 By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

1Ki 5:18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

1Ki 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

1Ki 6:2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

1Ki 6:3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

1Ki 6:4 And for the house he made windows, with network across.

1Ki 6:5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

1Ki 6:6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

1Ki 6:7 (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

1Ki 6:8 The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

1Ki 6:9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

1Ki 6:10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

1Ki 6:11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

1Ki 6:12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

1Ki 6:13 And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.

1Ki 6:14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

1Ki 6:15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

1Ki 6:16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

1Ki 6:17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

1Ki 6:18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

1Ki 6:19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

1Ki 6:20 And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

1Ki 6:21 Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

1Ki 6:22 Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

1Ki 6:23 In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

1Ki 6:24 With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.

1Ki 6:25 The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.

1Ki 6:26 The two of them were ten cubits high.

1Ki 6:27 These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house, one touching one wall and one the other, while their other wings were touching in the middle.

1Ki 6:28 These winged ones were plated over with gold.

1Ki 6:29 And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

1Ki 6:30 And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

1Ki 6:31 For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.

1Ki 6:32 On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.

1Ki 6:33 Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:

1Ki 6:34 And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.

1Ki 6:35 These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

1Ki 6:36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

1Ki 6:37 In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.

1Ki 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

1Ki 7:1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

1Ki 7:2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

1Ki 7:3 And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

1Ki 7:4 There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.

1Ki 7:5 And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

1Ki 7:6 And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

1Ki 7:7 Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

1Ki 7:8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

1Ki 7:9 All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

1Ki 7:10 And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

1Ki 7:11 Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

1Ki 7:12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

1Ki 7:13 Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

1Ki 7:14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

1Ki 7:15 He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

1Ki 7:16 And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.

1Ki 7:17 There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other.

1Ki 7:18 And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.

1Ki 7:19 The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.

1Ki 7:20 And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.

1Ki 7:21 He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

1Ki 7:22 The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.

1Ki 7:23 And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

1Ki 7:24 And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.

1Ki 7:25 It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.

1Ki 7:26 It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.

1Ki 7:27 And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

1Ki 7:28 And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;

1Ki 7:29 And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps.

1Ki 7:30 Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one.

1Ki 7:31 The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round.

1Ki 7:32 The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.

1Ki 7:33 The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal.

1Ki 7:34 And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base.

1Ki 7:35 And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;

1Ki 7:36 In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.

1Ki 7:37 All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form.

1Ki 7:38 And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases.

1Ki 7:39 And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south.

1Ki 7:40 And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord:

1Ki 7:41 The two pillars and the two cups of the crowns which were on the tops of the two pillars; and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars,

1Ki 7:42 And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars;

1Ki 7:43 And the ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them;

1Ki 7:44 And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it;

1Ki 7:45 And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.

1Ki 7:46 He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.

1Ki 7:47 The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.

1Ki 7:48 And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;

1Ki 7:49 And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room, of clear gold; and the flowers and the lights and all the instruments of gold;

1Ki 7:50 And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the pins on which the doors were turned, the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, all of gold.

1Ki 7:51 So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.

1Ki 8:1 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

1Ki 8:2 And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.

1Ki 8:3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

1Ki 8:4 They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

1Ki 8:5 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

1Ki 8:6 And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

1Ki 8:7 For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

1Ki 8:8 The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.

1Ki 8:9 There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1Ki 8:10 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

1Ki 8:11 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.

1Ki 8:12 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

1Ki 8:13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

1Ki 8:14 Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.

1Ki 8:15 And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to David my father, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,

1Ki 8:16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

1Ki 8:17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1Ki 8:18 But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

1Ki 8:19 But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

1Ki 8:20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1Ki 8:21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

1Ki 8:22 Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

1Ki 8:23 Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.

1Ki 8:24 And you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

1Ki 8:25 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

1Ki 8:26 So now, O God of Israel, it is my prayer that you will make your word come true which you said to your servant David, my father.

1Ki 8:27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

1Ki 8:28 Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;

1Ki 8:29 That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

1Ki 8:30 Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.

1Ki 8:31 If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

1Ki 8:32 Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

1Ki 8:33 When your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers to you and requesting your grace in this house:

1Ki 8:34 Then give ear in heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again into the land which you gave to their fathers.

1Ki 8:35 When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

1Ki 8:36 Then give ear in heaven, so that the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

1Ki 8:37 If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:

1Ki 8:38 Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

1Ki 8:39 Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:

1Ki 8:40 So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.

1Ki 8:41 And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name:

1Ki 8:42 (For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm;) when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

1Ki 8:43 Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.

1Ki 8:44 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name:

1Ki 8:45 Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.

1Ki 8:46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

1Ki 8:47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

1Ki 8:48 And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:

1Ki 8:49 Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;

1Ki 8:50 Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;

1Ki 8:51 For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;

1Ki 8:52 Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.

1Ki 8:53 For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

1Ki 8:54 Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

1Ki 8:55 And, getting on his feet, he gave a blessing to all the men of Israel, saying with a loud voice,

1Ki 8:56 Praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, as he gave them his word to do; every word of all his oath, which he gave by the hand of Moses his servant, has come true.

1Ki 8:57 Now may the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him never go away from us or give us up;

1Ki 8:58 Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.

1Ki 8:59 And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.

1Ki 8:60 So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the Lord is God, and there is no other.

1Ki 8:61 Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

1Ki 8:62 Now the king, and all Israel with him, were making offerings before the Lord.

1Ki 8:63 And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.

1Ki 8:64 The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.

1Ki 8:65 So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

1Ki 8:66 And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

1Ki 9:1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

1Ki 9:2 The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

1Ki 9:3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

1Ki 9:4 As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

1Ki 9:5 Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

1Ki 9:6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

1Ki 9:7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

1Ki 9:8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

1Ki 9:9 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

1Ki 9:10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

1Ki 9:11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

1Ki 9:12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

1Ki 9:13 And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.

1Ki 9:14 And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

1Ki 9:15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

1Ki 9:16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

1Ki 9:17 ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

1Ki 9:18 And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;

1Ki 9:19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

1Ki 9:20 As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;

1Ki 9:21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

1Ki 9:22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

1Ki 9:23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.

1Ki 9:24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

1Ki 9:25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

1Ki 9:26 And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

1Ki 9:27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

1Ki 9:28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.

1Ki 10:1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.

1Ki 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

1Ki 10:3 And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.

1Ki 10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

1Ki 10:5 And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

1Ki 10:6 And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.

1Ki 10:7 But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and now I see that it was not half the story; your wisdom and your wealth are much greater than they said.

1Ki 10:8 Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

1Ki 10:9 May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.

1Ki 10:10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

1Ki 10:11 And the sea-force of Hiram, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with much sandal-wood and jewels.

1Ki 10:12 And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.

1Ki 10:13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

1Ki 10:14 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

1Ki 10:15 In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.

1Ki 10:16 And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

1Ki 10:17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

1Ki 10:18 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

1Ki 10:19 There were six steps going up to it, and the top of it was round at the back, there were arms on the two sides of the seat, and two lions by the side of the arms;

1Ki 10:20 And twelve lions were placed on the one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.

1Ki 10:21 And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.

1Ki 10:22 For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

1Ki 10:23 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

1Ki 10:24 And from all over the earth they came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

1Ki 10:25 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.

1Ki 10:26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

1Ki 10:27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

1Ki 10:28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.

1Ki 10:29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

1Ki 11:1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

1Ki 11:2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

1Ki 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

1Ki 11:4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

1Ki 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

1Ki 11:6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

1Ki 11:7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

1Ki 11:8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

1Ki 11:9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;

1Ki 11:10 And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

1Ki 11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

1Ki 11:12 I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

1Ki 11:13 Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

1Ki 11:14 So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

1Ki 11:15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

1Ki 11:16 (For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)

1Ki 11:17 Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his father;

1Ki 11:18 And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.

1Ki 11:19 Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.

1Ki 11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes had a son by him, Genubath, whom Tahpenes took care of in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was living in Pharaoh's house among Pharaoh's sons.

1Ki 11:21 Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, Send me back to my country.

1Ki 11:22 But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desiring to go back to your country? And he said, Nothing; but even so, send me back.

1Ki 11:23 And God sent another trouble-maker, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had gone in flight from his lord, Hadadezer, king of Zobah:

1Ki 11:24 He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there.

1Ki 11:25 He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.

1Ki 11:26 And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.

1Ki 11:27 The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

1Ki 11:28 And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.

1Ki 11:29 Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.

1Ki 11:30 And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.

1Ki 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;

1Ki 11:32 (But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, out of all the tribes of Israel, I have made mine,)

1Ki 11:33 Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.

1Ki 11:34 But I will not take the kingdom from him; I will let him be king all the days of his life, because of David my servant, in whom I took delight because he kept my orders and my laws.

1Ki 11:35 But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.

1Ki 11:36 And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

1Ki 11:37 And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.

1Ki 11:38 And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

1Ki 11:39 (So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)

1Ki 11:40 And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

1Ki 11:41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all he did, and his wisdom, are they not recorded in the book of the acts of Solomon?

1Ki 11:42 And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1Ki 11:43 And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.

1Ki 12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

1Ki 12:2 And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

1Ki 12:3 And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

1Ki 12:4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

1Ki 12:5 And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

1Ki 12:6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

1Ki 12:7 And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

1Ki 12:8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:

1Ki 12:9 And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

1Ki 12:10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

1Ki 12:11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

1Ki 12:12 So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

1Ki 12:13 And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;

1Ki 12:14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

1Ki 12:15 So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

1Ki 12:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

1Ki 12:17 (But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

1Ki 12:18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

1Ki 12:19 So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

1Ki 12:20 Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

1Ki 12:21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

1Ki 12:22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

1Ki 12:23 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

1Ki 12:24 The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers, the children of Israel; go back, every man to his house, because this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the word of the Lord, and went back, as the Lord had said.

1Ki 12:25 Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.

1Ki 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

1Ki 12:27 If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.

1Ki 12:28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

1Ki 12:29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.

1Ki 12:30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.

1Ki 12:31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

1Ki 12:32 And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

1Ki 12:33 He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.

1Ki 13:1 Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.

1Ki 13:2 And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.

1Ki 13:3 The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.

1Ki 13:4 Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

1Ki 13:5 And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

1Ki 13:6 Then the king made answer and said to the man of God, Make a prayer now for the grace of the Lord your God, and for me, that my hand may be made well. And in answer to the prayer of the man of God, the king's hand was made well again, as it was before.

1Ki 13:7 And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.

1Ki 13:8 But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of all you have, I would not go in with you, and I would not take food or a drink of water in this place;

1Ki 13:9 For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.

1Ki 13:10 So he went another way, and not by the way he came to Beth-el.

1Ki 13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.

1Ki 13:12 Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.

1Ki 13:13 So the prophet said to his sons, Make ready an ass for me. So they made an ass ready, and he got on it,

1Ki 13:14 And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

1Ki 13:15 Then he said to him, Come back to the house with me and have a meal.

1Ki 13:16 But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;

1Ki 13:17 For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

1Ki 13:18 Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.

1Ki 13:19 So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.

1Ki 13:20 But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;

1Ki 13:21 And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

1Ki 13:22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

1Ki 13:23 Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.

1Ki 13:24 And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.

1Ki 13:25 And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.

1Ki 13:26 Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.

1Ki 13:27 And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.

1Ki 13:28 And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.

1Ki 13:29 Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.

1Ki 13:30 And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!

1Ki 13:31 And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.

1Ki 13:32 For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

1Ki 13:33 After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.

1Ki 13:34 And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.

1Ki 14:1 At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill.

1Ki 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.

1Ki 14:3 And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

1Ki 14:4 So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.

1Ki 14:5 And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.

1Ki 14:6 Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

1Ki 14:7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,

1Ki 14:8 And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

1Ki 14:9 But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

1Ki 14:10 So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.

1Ki 14:11 Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.

1Ki 14:12 Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the child will take place.

1Ki 14:13 And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

1Ki 14:14 And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day;

1Ki 14:15 And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

1Ki 14:16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

1Ki 14:17 Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death came to the child.

1Ki 14:18 And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1Ki 14:19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

1Ki 14:20 And Jeroboam was king for twenty-two years, and was put to rest with his fathers, and Nadab his son became king in his place.

1Ki 14:21 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

1Ki 14:22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

1Ki 14:23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

1Ki 14:24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

1Ki 14:25 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

1Ki 14:26 And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

1Ki 14:27 So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

1Ki 14:28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

1Ki 14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

1Ki 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

1Ki 14:31 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.

1Ki 15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

1Ki 15:2 For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1Ki 15:3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

1Ki 15:4 But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

1Ki 15:5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

1Ki 15:6 ...

1Ki 15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1Ki 15:8 Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David: and Asa his son became king in his place.

1Ki 15:9 In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

1Ki 15:10 And he was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1Ki 15:11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

1Ki 15:12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

1Ki 15:13 And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

1Ki 15:14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

1Ki 15:15 He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

1Ki 15:16 Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

1Ki 15:17 And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah, so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

1Ki 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

1Ki 15:19 Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

1Ki 15:20 So Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as all the land of Naphtali.

1Ki 15:21 And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

1Ki 15:22 Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

1Ki 15:23 Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

1Ki 15:24 So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.

1Ki 15:25 Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.

1Ki 15:26 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

1Ki 15:27 And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.

1Ki 15:28 In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

1Ki 15:29 And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

1Ki 15:30 Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.

1Ki 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1Ki 15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

1Ki 15:33 In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.

1Ki 15:34 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

1Ki 16:1 And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,

1Ki 16:2 Because I took you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have gone in the ways of Jeroboam, and made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins;

1Ki 16:3 Truly, I will see that Baasha and all his family are completely brushed away; I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

1Ki 16:4 Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.

1Ki 16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1Ki 16:6 And Baasha went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth at Tirzah; and Elah his son became king in his place.

1Ki 16:7 And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.

1Ki 16:8 In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah, and he was king for two years.

1Ki 16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

1Ki 16:10 And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.

1Ki 16:11 And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.

1Ki 16:12 So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;

1Ki 16:13 Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.

1Ki 16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1Ki 16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.

1Ki 16:16 And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.

1Ki 16:17 Then Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.

1Ki 16:18 And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,

1Ki 16:19 Because of his sin in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, in going in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel do.

1Ki 16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1Ki 16:21 Then there was a division among the people of Israel; half the people were for making Tibni, son of Ginath, king, and half were supporting Omri.

1Ki 16:22 But the supporters of Omri overcame those who were on the side of Tibni, the son of Ginath; and death came to Tibni and to his brother Joram at that time: and Omri became king in the place of Tibni.

1Ki 16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, and he was king for twelve years; for six years he was ruling in Tirzah.

1Ki 16:24 He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.

1Ki 16:25 And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

1Ki 16:26 Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

1Ki 16:27 Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1Ki 16:28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

1Ki 16:29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

1Ki 16:30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

1Ki 16:31 And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

1Ki 16:32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.

1Ki 16:33 And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

1Ki 16:34 In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.

1Ki 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

1Ki 17:2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

1Ki 17:3 Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

1Ki 17:4 The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

1Ki 17:5 So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

1Ki 17:6 And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.

1Ki 17:7 Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

1Ki 17:8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

1Ki 17:9 Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.

1Ki 17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?

1Ki 17:11 And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.

1Ki 17:12 Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

1Ki 17:13 And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

1Ki 17:14 For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.

1Ki 17:15 So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time.

1Ki 17:16 The store of meal did not come to an end, and the bottle was never without oil, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah.

1Ki 17:17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

1Ki 17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

1Ki 17:19 And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

1Ki 17:20 And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

1Ki 17:21 And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.

1Ki 17:22 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.

1Ki 17:23 And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

1Ki 17:24 Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I am certain that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.

1Ki 18:1 Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

1Ki 18:2 So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

1Ki 18:3 And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before him greatly;

1Ki 18:4 For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

1Ki 18:5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.

1Ki 18:6 So they went through all the country, covering it between them; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another by himself.

1Ki 18:7 And while Obadiah was on his way, he came face to face with Elijah; and seeing who it was, he went down on his face and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?

1Ki 18:8 And Elijah in answer said, It is I; now go and say to your lord, Elijah is here.

1Ki 18:9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

1Ki 18:10 By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.

1Ki 18:11 And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.

1Ki 18:12 And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

1Ki 18:13 Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

1Ki 18:14 And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.

1Ki 18:15 And Elijah said, By the life of the Lord of armies, whose servant I am, I will certainly let him see me today.

1Ki 18:16 So Obadiah went to Ahab and gave him the news; and Ahab went to see Elijah.

1Ki 18:17 And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?

1Ki 18:18 Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.

1Ki 18:19 Now send, and get Israel together before me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal who get their food at Jezebel's table.

1Ki 18:20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and got the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

1Ki 18:21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.

1Ki 18:22 Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I, am the only living prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

1Ki 18:23 Now, let them give us two oxen; and let them take one for themselves, and have it cut up, and put it on the wood, but put no fire under it; I will get the other ox ready, and put it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

1Ki 18:24 And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said.

1Ki 18:25 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Take one ox for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are more of you; and make your prayers to your god, but put no fire under.

1Ki 18:26 So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.

1Ki 18:27 And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

1Ki 18:28 So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.

1Ki 18:29 And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.

1Ki 18:30 Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near. And he put up again the altar of the Lord which had been broken down.

1Ki 18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

1Ki 18:32 And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.

1Ki 18:33 And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time;

1Ki 18:34 And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time.

1Ki 18:35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

1Ki 18:36 Then at the time of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be seen this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things by your order.

1Ki 18:37 Give me an answer, O Lord, give me an answer, so that this people may see that you are God, and that you have made their hearts come back again.

1Ki 18:38 Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.

1Ki 18:39 And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.

1Ki 18:40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.

1Ki 18:41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, Up! take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain.

1Ki 18:42 So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.

1Ki 18:43 And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.

1Ki 18:44 And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

1Ki 18:45 And after a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.

1Ki 18:46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he made himself strong, and went running before Ahab till they came to Jezreel.

1Ki 19:1 Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.

1Ki 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

1Ki 19:3 And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

1Ki 19:4 While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

1Ki 19:5 And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.

1Ki 19:6 And looking up, he saw by his head a cake cooked on the stones and a bottle of water. So he took food and drink and went to sleep again.

1Ki 19:7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touching him said, Get up and have some food, or the journey will be overmuch for your strength.

1Ki 19:8 So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

1Ki 19:9 And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

1Ki 19:10 And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

1Ki 19:11 Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.

1Ki 19:12 And after the earth-shock a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, the sound of a soft breath.

1Ki 19:13 And Elijah, hearing it, went out, covering his face with his robe, and took his place in the opening of the hole. And there a voice came to him saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

1Ki 19:14 And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

1Ki 19:15 And the Lord said to him, Go back on your way through the waste land to Damascus; and when you come there, put the holy oil on Hazael to make him king over Aram;

1Ki 19:16 And on Jehu, son of Nimshi, making him king over Israel; and on Elisha, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, to be prophet in your place.

1Ki 19:17 And it will come about that the man who gets away safe from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will put to death; and whoever gets away safe from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will put to death.

1Ki 19:18 But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.

1Ki 19:19 So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and Elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.

1Ki 19:20 And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?

1Ki 19:21 And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.

1Ki 20:1 Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.

1Ki 20:2 And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel;

1Ki 20:3 And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine.

1Ki 20:4 And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have.

1Ki 20:5 Then the representatives came back again, and said, These are the words of Ben-hadad: I sent to you saying, Give up to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children;

1Ki 20:6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, to make a search through your house and the houses of your people, and everything which is pleasing in your eyes they will take away in their hands.

1Ki 20:7 Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.

1Ki 20:8 And all the responsible men and the people said to him, Do not give attention to him or do what he says.

1Ki 20:9 So he said to the representatives of Ben-hadad, Say to my lord the king, All the orders you sent the first time I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the representatives went back with this answer.

1Ki 20:10 Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.

1Ki 20:11 And the king of Israel said in answer, Say to him, The time for loud talk is not when a man is putting on his arms, but when he is taking them off.

1Ki 20:12 Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.

1Ki 20:13 Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.

1Ki 20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you.

1Ki 20:15 Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

1Ki 20:16 And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.

1Ki 20:17 And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria.

1Ki 20:18 And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.

1Ki 20:19 So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them.

1Ki 20:20 And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.

1Ki 20:21 And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

1Ki 20:22 Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.

1Ki 20:23 Then the king of Aram's servants said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; that is why they were stronger than we: but if we make an attack on them in the lowlands, we will certainly be stronger than they.

1Ki 20:24 This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places;

1Ki 20:25 And get together another army like the one which came to destruction, horse for horse, and carriage for carriage; and let us make war on them in the lowlands, and certainly we will be stronger than they. And he gave ear to what they said, and did so.

1Ki 20:26 So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.

1Ki 20:27 And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.

1Ki 20:28 And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.

1Ki 20:29 Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.

1Ki 20:30 But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

1Ki 20:31 Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.

1Ki 20:32 So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, Let me now keep my life. And he said, Is he still living? he is my brother.

1Ki 20:33 Now the men took it as a sign, and quickly took up his words; and they said, Ben-hadad is your brother. Then he said, Go and get him. So Ben-hadad came out to him and he made him get up into his carriage.

1Ki 20:34 And Ben-hadad said to him, The towns my father took from your father I will give back; and you may make streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. And as for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.

1Ki 20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not.

1Ki 20:36 Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

1Ki 20:37 Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him.

1Ki 20:38 So the prophet went away, and pulling his head-band over his eyes to keep his face covered, took his place by the road waiting for the king.

1Ki 20:39 And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

1Ki 20:40 But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.

1Ki 20:41 Then he quickly took the head-band from his eyes; and the king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets.

1Ki 20:42 And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.

1Ki 20:43 Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.

1Ki 21:1 Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

1Ki 21:2 And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

1Ki 21:3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.

1Ki 21:4 So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.

1Ki 21:5 But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?

1Ki 21:6 And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.

1Ki 21:7 Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.

1Ki 21:8 So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.

1Ki 21:9 And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

1Ki 21:10 And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

1Ki 21:11 So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.

1Ki 21:12 They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.

1Ki 21:13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

1Ki 21:14 And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.

1Ki 21:15 Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.

1Ki 21:16 So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.

1Ki 21:17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

1Ki 21:18 Go down to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria; see, he is in the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, where he has gone to take it as his heritage.

1Ki 21:19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

1Ki 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

1Ki 21:21 See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;

1Ki 21:22 And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

1Ki 21:23 And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.

1Ki 21:24 Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

1Ki 21:25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

1Ki 21:26 He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

1Ki 21:27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

1Ki 21:28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

1Ki 21:29 Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

1Ki 22:1 Now for three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.

1Ki 22:2 And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.

1Ki 22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.

1Ki 22:4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.

1Ki 22:5 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

1Ki 22:6 So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

1Ki 22:7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?

1Ki 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

1Ki 22:9 Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with Micaiah, the son of Imlah.

1Ki 22:10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.

1Ki 22:11 And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.

1Ki 22:12 And all the prophets said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well for you, for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

1Ki 22:13 Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.

1Ki 22:14 And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.

1Ki 22:15 When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

1Ki 22:16 Then the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?

1Ki 22:17 Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.

1Ki 22:18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good but of evil?

1Ki 22:19 And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.

1Ki 22:20 And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.

1Ki 22:21 Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick.

1Ki 22:22 And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

1Ki 22:23 And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.

1Ki 22:24 Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of the face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?

1Ki 22:25 And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.

1Ki 22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;

1Ki 22:27 And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.

1Ki 22:28 And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.

1Ki 22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.

1Ki 22:30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress and went into the fight.

1Ki 22:31 Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.

1Ki 22:32 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

1Ki 22:33 And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

1Ki 22:34 And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.

1Ki 22:35 But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

1Ki 22:36 And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

1Ki 22:37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

1Ki 22:38 And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

1Ki 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1Ki 22:40 So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

1Ki 22:41 And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

1Ki 22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was king for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

1Ki 22:43 He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

1Ki 22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

1Ki 22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

1Ki 22:46 He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

1Ki 22:47 At that time there was no king in Edom;

1Ki 22:48 And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber.

1Ki 22:49 Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, Let my men go with yours in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not let them.

1Ki 22:50 Then Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Jehoram his son became king in his place.

1Ki 22:51 Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

1Ki 22:52 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

1Ki 22:53 He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

2Ki 1:1 After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.

2Ki 1:2 Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.

2Ki 1:3 But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

2Ki 1:4 Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

2Ki 1:5 And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back?

2Ki 1:6 And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

2Ki 1:7 And he said to them, What sort of a man was it who came and said these words to you?

2Ki 1:8 And they said in answer, He was a man clothed in a coat of hair, with a leather band about his body. Then he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

2Ki 1:9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

2Ki 1:10 And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.

2Ki 1:11 Then the king sent another captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he said to Elijah, O man of God, the king says, Come down quickly.

2Ki 1:12 And Elijah in answer said, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and put an end to him and his fifty men.

2Ki 1:13 Then he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men; and the third captain of fifty went up, and falling on his knees before Elijah, requesting mercy of him, said, O man of God, let my life and the life of these your fifty servants be of value to you.

2Ki 1:14 For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

2Ki 1:15 Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; have no fear of him. So he got up and went down with him to the king.

2Ki 1:16 And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

2Ki 1:17 So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

2Ki 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 2:1 Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

2Ki 2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.

2Ki 2:3 And at Beth-el the sons of the prophets came out to Elisha and said, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.

2Ki 2:4 Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on to Jericho.

2Ki 2:5 And at Jericho the sons of the prophets came up to Elisha and said to him, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said in answer, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.

2Ki 2:6 Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on together.

2Ki 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went out and took their places facing them a long way off, while the two of them were by the edge of Jordan.

2Ki 2:8 Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

2Ki 2:9 And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.

2Ki 2:10 And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.

2Ki 2:11 And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.

2Ki 2:12 And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.

2Ki 2:13 Then he took up Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and went back till he came to the edge of Jordan.

2Ki 2:14 And he took Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and giving the water a blow with it, said, Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? and at his blow the waters were parted this way and that; and Elisha went over.

2Ki 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets who were facing him at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha. And they came out to him, and went down on the earth before him.

2Ki 2:16 And they said, Your servants have with us here fifty strong men; be pleased to let them go in search of Elijah; for it may be that the spirit of the Lord has taken him up and put him down on some mountain or in some valley. But he said, Do not send them.

2Ki 2:17 But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.

2Ki 2:18 And they came back to him, while he was still at Jericho; and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?

2Ki 2:19 Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.

2Ki 2:20 So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him.

2Ki 2:21 Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.

2Ki 2:22 And the water was made sweet again to this day, as Elisha said.

2Ki 2:23 Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!

2Ki 2:24 And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.

2Ki 2:25 From there he went to Mount Carmel, and came back from there to Samaria.

2Ki 3:1 And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

2Ki 3:2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

2Ki 3:3 But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

2Ki 3:4 Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.

2Ki 3:5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

2Ki 3:6 At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

2Ki 3:7 And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

2Ki 3:8 And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

2Ki 3:9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.

2Ki 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

2Ki 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah.

2Ki 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

2Ki 3:13 But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

2Ki 3:14 Then Elisha said, By the life of the Lord of armies whose servant I am, if it was not for the respect I have for Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, I would not give a look at you, or see you.

2Ki 3:15 But now, get me a player of music, and it will come about that while the man is playing, the hand of the Lord will come on me and I will give you the word of the Lord: and they got a player of music, and while the man was playing, the hand of the Lord was on him.

2Ki 3:16 And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.

2Ki 3:17 For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

2Ki 3:18 And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

2Ki 3:19 And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

2Ki 3:20 Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water.

2Ki 3:21 Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

2Ki 3:22 And early in the morning they got up, when the sun was shining on the water, and they saw the water facing them as red as blood.

2Ki 3:23 Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.

2Ki 3:24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

2Ki 3:25 Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

2Ki 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

2Ki 3:27 Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.

2Ki 4:1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

2Ki 4:2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

2Ki 4:3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

2Ki 4:4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

2Ki 4:5 So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

2Ki 4:6 And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped.

2Ki 4:7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

2Ki 4:8 Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.

2Ki 4:9 And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

2Ki 4:10 So let us make a little room on the wall; and put a bed there for him, and a table and a seat and a light; so that when he comes to us, he will be able to go in there.

2Ki 4:11 Now one day, when he had gone there, he went into the little room and took his rest there.

2Ki 4:12 And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.

2Ki 4:13 And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

2Ki 4:14 So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

2Ki 4:15 Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.

2Ki 4:16 And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

2Ki 4:17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

2Ki 4:18 Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

2Ki 4:19 And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

2Ki 4:20 And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

2Ki 4:21 Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.

2Ki 4:22 And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.

2Ki 4:23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

2Ki 4:24 Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.

2Ki 4:25 So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;

2Ki 4:26 Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.

2Ki 4:27 And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

2Ki 4:28 Then she said, Did I make a request to my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not give me false words?

2Ki 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.

2Ki 4:30 But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.

2Ki 4:31 And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake.

2Ki 4:32 And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.

2Ki 4:33 So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.

2Ki 4:34 Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm.

2Ki 4:35 Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.

2Ki 4:36 And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.

2Ki 4:37 And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.

2Ki 4:38 And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.

2Ki 4:39 And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.

2Ki 4:40 Then they gave the men soup from the pot. And while they were drinking the soup, they gave a cry, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot; and they were not able to take any more food.

2Ki 4:41 But he said, Get some meal. And he put it into the pot, and said, Now give it to the people so that they may have food. And there was nothing bad in the pot.

2Ki 4:42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

2Ki 4:43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.

2Ki 4:44 So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.

2Ki 5:1 Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.

2Ki 5:2 Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.

2Ki 5:3 And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.

2Ki 5:4 And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.

2Ki 5:5 So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

2Ki 5:6 And he took the letter to the king of Israel, in which the king of Aram had said, See, I have sent my servant Naaman to you to be made well, for he is a leper.

2Ki 5:7 But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?

2Ki 5:8 Now Elisha, the man of God, hearing that the king of Israel had done this, sent to the king, saying, Why are you troubled? send the man to me, so that he may see that there is a prophet in Israel.

2Ki 5:9 So Naaman, with all his horses and his carriages, came to the door of Elisha's house.

2Ki 5:10 And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

2Ki 5:11 But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.

2Ki 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath.

2Ki 5:13 Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?

2Ki 5:14 Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.

2Ki 5:15 Then he went back to the man of God, with all his train, and, taking his place before him, said, Now I am certain that there is no God in all the earth, but only in Israel: now then, take an offering from me.

2Ki 5:16 But he said, By the life of the Lord whose servant I am, I will take nothing from you. And he did his best to make him take it but he would not.

2Ki 5:17 Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.

2Ki 5:18 But may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this one thing: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon for worship there, supported on my arm, and my head is bent in the house of Rimmon; when his head is bent in the house of Rimmon, may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this thing.

2Ki 5:19 And he said to him, Go in peace. And he went from him some distance.

2Ki 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

2Ki 5:21 So Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from his carriage and went back to him and said, Is all well?

2Ki 5:22 And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?

2Ki 5:23 And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.

2Ki 5:24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.

2Ki 5:25 Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.

2Ki 5:26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?

2Ki 5:27 Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

2Ki 6:1 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, There is not room enough for us in the place where we are living under your care;

2Ki 6:2 So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.

2Ki 6:3 And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.

2Ki 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.

2Ki 6:5 But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.

2Ki 6:6 And the man of God said, Where did it go in? and when he saw the place where it had gone into the water, cutting a stick, he put it into the water, and the iron came up to the top of the water.

2Ki 6:7 Then he said, Take it up. So he put out his hand and took it.

2Ki 6:8 At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place.

2Ki 6:9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Take care to keep away from that place, for the Aramaeans are waiting there in secret.

2Ki 6:10 So the king of Israel sent to the place where the man of God had said there was danger, and kept clear of it more than once.

2Ki 6:11 And at this, the mind of the king of Aram was greatly troubled, and he sent for his servants and said to them, Will you not make clear to me which of us is helping the king of Israel?

2Ki 6:12 And one of them said, Not one of us, my lord king; but Elisha, the prophet in Israel, gives the king of Israel news of the words you say even in your bedroom.

2Ki 6:13 Then he said, Go and see where he is, so that I may send and get him. And news came to him that he was in Dothan.

2Ki 6:14 So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

2Ki 6:15 Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do?

2Ki 6:16 And he said in answer, Have no fear; those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

2Ki 6:17 Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha.

2Ki 6:18 Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.

2Ki 6:19 And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria.

2Ki 6:20 And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, let the eyes of these men be open so that they may see. And the Lord made their eyes open, and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.

2Ki 6:21 And the king of Israel, when he saw them, said to Elisha, My father, am I to put them to the sword?

2Ki 6:22 But he said in answer, You are not to put them to death; have you any right to put to death those whom you have not taken prisoner with your sword and your bow? put bread and water before them, so that they may have food and drink and go to their master.

2Ki 6:23 So he made ready a great feast for them, and when they had had food and drink, he sent them away and they went back to their master. And no more bands of Aramaeans came into the land of Israel.

2Ki 6:24 Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.

2Ki 6:25 And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

2Ki 6:26 And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

2Ki 6:27 And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?

2Ki 6:28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

2Ki 6:29 So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.

2Ki 6:30 Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.

2Ki 6:31 Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.

2Ki 6:32 But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life?

2Ki 6:33 While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?

2Ki 7:1 Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.

2Ki 7:2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

2Ki 7:3 Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?

2Ki 7:4 If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.

2Ki 7:5 So in the half light they got up to go to the tents of Aram; but when they came to the outer line of tents, there was no one there.

2Ki 7:6 For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.

2Ki 7:7 So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.

2Ki 7:8 And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.

2Ki 7:9 Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.

2Ki 7:10 So they came in, and, crying out to the door-keepers of the town, they gave them the news, saying, We came to the tents of the Aramaeans, and there was no one there and no voice of man, only the horses and the asses in their places, and the tents as they were.

2Ki 7:11 Then the door-keepers, crying out, gave the news to those inside the king's house.

2Ki 7:12 Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.

2Ki 7:13 And one of his servants said in answer, Send men and let them take five of the horses which we still have in the town; if they keep their lives they will be the same as those of Israel who are still living here; if they come to their death they will be the same as all those of Israel who have gone to destruction: let us send and see.

2Ki 7:14 So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.

2Ki 7:15 And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king.

2Ki 7:16 Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.

2Ki 7:17 And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.

2Ki 7:18 So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.

2Ki 7:19 And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

2Ki 7:20 And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.

2Ki 8:1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

2Ki 8:2 So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2Ki 8:3 And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

2Ki 8:4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Now, give me an account of all the great things Elisha has done.

2Ki 8:5 And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.

2Ki 8:6 And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.

2Ki 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.

2Ki 8:8 Then the king said to Hazael, Take an offering with you, and go to see the man of God and get directions from the Lord by him, saying, Am I going to get better from my disease?

2Ki 8:9 So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?

2Ki 8:10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.

2Ki 8:11 And he kept his eyes fixed on him till he was shamed, and the man of God was overcome with weeping.

2Ki 8:12 And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.

2Ki 8:13 And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.

2Ki 8:14 Then he went away from Elisha and came in to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And his answer was, He said that you would certainly get well.

2Ki 8:15 Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.

2Ki 8:16 In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

2Ki 8:17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

2Ki 8:18 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2Ki 8:19 But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on Judah, because of David his servant, to whom he had given his word that he would have a light for ever.

2Ki 8:20 In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

2Ki 8:21 Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

2Ki 8:22 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah to this day. And at the same time, Libnah made itself free.

2Ki 8:23 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 8:24 And Joram went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David: and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

2Ki 8:25 In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

2Ki 8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.

2Ki 8:27 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.

2Ki 8:28 He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.

2Ki 8:29 So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.

2Ki 9:1 And Elisha the prophet sent for one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Make yourself ready for a journey, and take this bottle of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

2Ki 9:2 And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

2Ki 9:3 Then take the bottle and put the oil on his head, and say, The Lord says, I have put the holy oil on you to make you king over Israel. Then, opening the door, go in flight, without waiting.

2Ki 9:4 So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.

2Ki 9:5 And when he came, he saw the captains of the army seated together; and he said, I have something to say to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.

2Ki 9:6 And he got up and went into the house; then he put the holy oil on his head and said to him, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, I have made you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.

2Ki 9:7 You are to see that the family of Ahab your master is cut off, so that I may take from Jezebel payment for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all the servants of the Lord.

2Ki 9:8 For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.

2Ki 9:9 I will make the family of Ahab like that of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and Baasha, the son of Ahijah.

2Ki 9:10 And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.

2Ki 9:11 Then Jehu came out again to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? why did this man, who is off his head, come to you? And he said to them, You have knowledge of the man and of his talk.

2Ki 9:12 And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.

2Ki 9:13 Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

2Ki 9:14 So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:

2Ki 9:15 But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

2Ki 9:16 So Jehu got into his carriage and went to Jezreel, for Joram was ill in bed there; and Ahaziah, king of Judah, had come down to see Joram.

2Ki 9:17 And the watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his band coming, and said, I see a band of people. And Joram said, Send out a horseman to them, and let him say, Is it peace?

2Ki 9:18 So a horseman went out to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? come after me. And the watchman gave them word, saying, The horseman went up to them, but has not come back.

2Ki 9:19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came up to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said in answer, What have you to do with peace? come after me.

2Ki 9:20 And the watchman gave them word, saying, He went up to them and has not come back again; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he is driving violently.

2Ki 9:21 Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.

2Ki 9:22 Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?

2Ki 9:23 Then Joram, turning his horses in flight, said to Ahaziah, Broken faith, O Ahaziah!

2Ki 9:24 Then Jehu took his bow in his hand, and with all his strength sent an arrow, wounding Joram between the arms; and the arrow came out at his heart, and he went down on his face in his carriage.

2Ki 9:25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:

2Ki 9:26 I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.

2Ki 9:27 Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.

2Ki 9:28 And his servants took him in a carriage to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.

2Ki 9:29 (In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)

2Ki 9:30 And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

2Ki 9:31 And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?

2Ki 9:32 Then, looking up to the window, he said, Who is on my side, who? and two or three unsexed servants put out their heads.

2Ki 9:33 And he said, Take her and put her out of the window. So they sent her down with force, and her blood went in a shower on the wall and on the horses; and she was crushed under their feet.

2Ki 9:34 And he came in, and took food and drink; then he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and put her body into the earth, for she is a king's daughter.

2Ki 9:35 And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

2Ki 9:36 So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

2Ki 9:37 And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.

2Ki 10:1 Now there were in Samaria seventy of Ahab's sons. And Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the responsible men, and to those who had the care of the sons of Ahab, saying,

2Ki 10:2 Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

2Ki 10:3 Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.

2Ki 10:4 But they were full of fear, and said, The two kings have gone down before him: how may we keep our place?

2Ki 10:5 So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you.

2Ki 10:6 Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them.

2Ki 10:7 And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and put them to death, all the seventy, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

2Ki 10:8 And a man came and said to him, They have come with the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Put them down in two masses at the doorway of the town till the morning.

2Ki 10:9 And in the morning he went out and, stopping, said to all the people there, You are upright men: it is true that I made designs against my master, and put him to death; but who is responsible for the death of all these?

2Ki 10:10 You may be certain that nothing which the Lord has said about the family of Ahab will be without effect; for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.

2Ki 10:11 So Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.

2Ki 10:12 Then he got up and came to Samaria. And he was at the meeting-place of the keepers of sheep, by the way,

2Ki 10:13 When he came across the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they said, We are the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah; we are going down to see the children of the king and of the queen.

2Ki 10:14 And he said, Take them living. So they took them living, and put them to death in the water-hole of Beth-eked; of the forty-two men he put every one to death;

2Ki 10:15 And when he had gone away from there, he came across Jehonadab, the son of Rechab: and he said good-day to him, and said to him, Is your heart true to mine, as mine is to yours? And Jehonadab in answer said, It is; and Jehu said, If it is, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he made him come up into his carriage.

2Ki 10:16 And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.

2Ki 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he put to death all those of Ahab's family who were still in Samaria, till there were no more of them, as the Lord had said to Elijah.

2Ki 10:18 Then Jehu got all the people together and said to them, Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.

2Ki 10:19 Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.

2Ki 10:20 And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.

2Ki 10:21 And Jehu sent out through all Israel; and all the servants of Baal came, not one kept away. And they came into the house of Baal, so that it was full from end to end.

2Ki 10:22 And Jehu said to him who kept the robes, Get out robes for all the servants of Baal. So he got out robes for them.

2Ki 10:23 And Jehu, with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal; and he said to the servants of Baal, Make a search with care, to see that no servant of the Lord is with you, but only servants of Baal.

2Ki 10:24 Then they went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Now Jehu had put eighty men outside, and said to them, If any man whom I give into your hands gets away, the life of him who lets him go will be the price of his life.

2Ki 10:25 Then when the burned offering was ended, straight away Jehu said to the armed men and the captains, Go in and put them to death; let not one come out. So they put them to the sword; and, pulling the images to the earth, they went into the holy place of the house of Baal.

2Ki 10:26 And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.

2Ki 10:27 The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

2Ki 10:28 So Jehu put an end to the worship of Baal in Israel.

2Ki 10:29 But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.

2Ki 10:30 And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and effecting all my purpose for the family of Ahab, your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.

2Ki 10:31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

2Ki 10:32 In those days the Lord was angry first with Israel; and Hazael made attacks on all the land of Israel,

2Ki 10:33 East of Jordan, in all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, all Gilead and Bashan.

2Ki 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 10:35 And Jehu went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son became king in his place.

2Ki 10:36 And the time of Jehu's rule over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

2Ki 11:1 Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.

2Ki 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the bedroom; and they kept him safe from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.

2Ki 11:3 And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

2Ki 11:4 Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the captains of hundreds of the Carians, and the armed men, and taking them into the house of the Lord, made an agreement with them, and made them take an oath in the house of the Lord, and let them see the king's son.

2Ki 11:5 And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house,

2Ki 11:6 ...

2Ki 11:7 And the two divisions of you, who go out on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the house of the Lord,

2Ki 11:8 Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in.

2Ki 11:9 And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest.

2Ki 11:10 And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord.

2Ki 11:11 Then the armed men took up their positions, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, round about the altar and the house.

2Ki 11:12 Then he made the king's son come out, and put the crown on him and the arm-bands, and made him king, and put the holy oil on him; and they all, making sounds of joy with their hands, said, Long life to the king.

2Ki 11:13 Now Athaliah, hearing the noise made by the people, came to the people in the house of the Lord;

2Ki 11:14 And looking, she saw the king in his regular place by the pillar, and the captains and the horns near him; and all the people of the land giving signs of joy and sounding the horns. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, gave a cry, saying, Broken faith, broken faith!

2Ki 11:15 Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to those who were placed in authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword, for he said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.

2Ki 11:16 So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death.

2Ki 11:17 And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people.

2Ki 11:18 Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house.

2Ki 11:19 Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the Carians, and the armed men, and all the people of the land; and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord, through the doorway of the armed men, to the king's house. And he took his place on the seat of the kings.

2Ki 11:20 So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.

2Ki 11:21 And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

2Ki 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

2Ki 12:2 Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

2Ki 12:3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2Ki 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,

2Ki 12:5 Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.

2Ki 12:6 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.

2Ki 12:7 Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.

2Ki 12:8 So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.

2Ki 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.

2Ki 12:10 And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.

2Ki 12:11 And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,

2Ki 12:12 And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

2Ki 12:13 But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord;

2Ki 12:14 But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

2Ki 12:15 And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.

2Ki 12:16 The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

2Ki 12:17 Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.

2Ki 12:18 Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

2Ki 12:19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 12:20 And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

2Ki 12:21 And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

2Ki 13:1 In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years.

2Ki 13:2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

2Ki 13:3 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.

2Ki 13:4 Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.

2Ki 13:5 (And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they became free from the hands of the Aramaeans; and the children of Israel were living in their tents as in the past.

2Ki 13:6 But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)

2Ki 13:7 For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

2Ki 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 13:9 And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.

2Ki 13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

2Ki 13:11 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

2Ki 13:12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 13:13 And Joash went to rest with his fathers and Jeroboam took his place as king; and Joash was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

2Ki 13:14 Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

2Ki 13:15 Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows.

2Ki 13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow: and he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.

2Ki 13:17 Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them.

2Ki 13:18 And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Send them down into the earth; and he did so three times and no more.

2Ki 13:19 Then the man of God was angry with him and said, If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely; but now you will only overcome them three times.

2Ki 13:20 And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.

2Ki 13:21 And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.

2Ki 13:22 And Israel was crushed under the power of Hazael, king of Aram, all the days of Jehoahaz.

2Ki 13:23 But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.

2Ki 13:24 Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.

2Ki 13:25 And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.

2Ki 14:1 In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

2Ki 14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

2Ki 14:3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

2Ki 14:4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2Ki 14:5 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

2Ki 14:6 But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

2Ki 14:7 He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

2Ki 14:8 Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.

2Ki 14:9 And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

2Ki 14:10 It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

2Ki 14:11 But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.

2Ki 14:12 And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.

2Ki 14:13 And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.

2Ki 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord and in the store-house of the king, together with those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.

2Ki 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 14:16 And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

2Ki 14:17 Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

2Ki 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 14:19 Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.

2Ki 14:20 And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David.

2Ki 14:21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

2Ki 14:22 He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.

2Ki 14:23 In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.

2Ki 14:24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

2Ki 14:25 He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.

2Ki 14:26 For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.

2Ki 14:27 And the Lord had not said that the name of Israel was to be taken away from the earth; but he gave them a saviour in Jeroboam, the son of Joash.

2Ki 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 14:29 And Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son became king in his place.

2Ki 15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

2Ki 15:2 He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

2Ki 15:3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

2Ki 15:4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2Ki 15:5 And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

2Ki 15:6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 15:7 And Azariah went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Jotham his son became king in his place.

2Ki 15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azaliah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, was king over Israel for six months.

2Ki 15:9 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

2Ki 15:10 And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place.

2Ki 15:11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

2Ki 15:12 This was what the Lord had said to Jehu, Your sons to the fourth generation will be kings of Israel. And so it came about.

2Ki 15:13 Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.

2Ki 15:14 Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place.

2Ki 15:15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the secret design which he made, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

2Ki 15:16 Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.

2Ki 15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, became king over Israel, and was ruling in Samaria for ten years.

2Ki 15:18 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

2Ki 15:19 In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.

2Ki 15:20 And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.

2Ki 15:21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

2Ki 15:22 And Menahem went to rest with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.

2Ki 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years.

2Ki 15:24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

2Ki 15:25 And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place.

2Ki 15:26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

2Ki 15:27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.

2Ki 15:28 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

2Ki 15:29 In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

2Ki 15:30 And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.

2Ki 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

2Ki 15:32 In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.

2Ki 15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

2Ki 15:34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

2Ki 15:35 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

2Ki 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 15:37 In those days the Lord first sent against Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah.

2Ki 15:38 And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

2Ki 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.

2Ki 16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.

2Ki 16:3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

2Ki 16:4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

2Ki 16:5 Then Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him.

2Ki 16:6 At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.

2Ki 16:7 So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.

2Ki 16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.

2Ki 16:9 And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

2Ki 16:10 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.

2Ki 16:11 And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

2Ki 16:12 And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.

2Ki 16:13 He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.

2Ki 16:14 And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.

2Ki 16:15 And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.

2Ki 16:16 So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

2Ki 16:17 And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

2Ki 16:18 *** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

2Ki 16:19 Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 16:20 And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

2Ki 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.

2Ki 17:2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.

2Ki 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.

2Ki 17:4 But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.

2Ki 17:5 Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.

2Ki 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.

2Ki 17:7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

2Ki 17:8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

2Ki 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

2Ki 17:10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

2Ki 17:11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

2Ki 17:12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

2Ki 17:13 And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.

2Ki 17:14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

2Ki 17:15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

2Ki 17:16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

2Ki 17:17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

2Ki 17:18 So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.

2Ki 17:19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

2Ki 17:20 So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)

2Ki 17:21 For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.

2Ki 17:22 And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;

2Ki 17:23 Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

2Ki 17:24 Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

2Ki 17:25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

2Ki 17:26 So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.

2Ki 17:27 Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.

2Ki 17:28 So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.

2Ki 17:29 And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

2Ki 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

2Ki 17:31 The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2Ki 17:32 So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

2Ki 17:33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

2Ki 17:34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

2Ki 17:35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

2Ki 17:36 But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

2Ki 17:37 And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.

2Ki 17:38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

2Ki 17:39 And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.

2Ki 17:40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

2Ki 17:41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

2Ki 18:1 Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.

2Ki 18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

2Ki 18:3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

2Ki 18:4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

2Ki 18:5 He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.

2Ki 18:6 For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.

2Ki 18:7 And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.

2Ki 18:8 He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

2Ki 18:9 Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

2Ki 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

2Ki 18:11 And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;

2Ki 18:12 Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.

2Ki 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

2Ki 18:14 And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2Ki 18:15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.

2Ki 18:16 And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

2Ki 18:17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.

2Ki 18:18 And they sent for the king, and Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.

2Ki 18:19 And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?

2Ki 18:20 You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?

2Ki 18:21 See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.

2Ki 18:22 And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

2Ki 18:23 And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

2Ki 18:24 How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

2Ki 18:25 And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

2Ki 18:26 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Will you kindly make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.

2Ki 18:27 But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

2Ki 18:28 Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria;

2Ki 18:29 This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.

2Ki 18:30 And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

2Ki 18:31 Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;

2Ki 18:32 Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.

2Ki 18:33 Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?

2Ki 18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? have they kept Samaria out of my hands?

2Ki 18:35 Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?

2Ki 18:36 But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

2Ki 18:37 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah, with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.

2Ki 19:1 And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2Ki 19:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

2Ki 19:3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

2Ki 19:4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.

2Ki 19:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

2Ki 19:6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.

2Ki 19:7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword.

2Ki 19:8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah, for it had come to his ears that he had gone away from Lachish.

2Ki 19:9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying,

2Ki 19:10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

2Ki 19:11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe?

2Ki 19:12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

2Ki 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena and of Ivvah?

2Ki 19:14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord.

2Ki 19:15 And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

2Ki 19:16 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.

2Ki 19:17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,

2Ki 19:18 And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

2Ki 19:19 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hands, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you and only you, O Lord, are God.

2Ki 19:20 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

2Ki 19:21 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.

2Ki 19:22 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

2Ki 19:23 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

2Ki 19:24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

2Ki 19:25 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

2Ki 19:26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

2Ki 19:27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

2Ki 19:28 Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

2Ki 19:29 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

2Ki 19:30 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

2Ki 19:31 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

2Ki 19:32 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;

2Ki 19:33 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.

2Ki 19:34 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

2Ki 19:35 And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

2Ki 19:36 So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

2Ki 19:37 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword; and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son became king in his place.

2Ki 20:1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.

2Ki 20:2 Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying,

2Ki 20:3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

2Ki 20:4 Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

2Ki 20:5 Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

2Ki 20:6 I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

2Ki 20:7 Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

2Ki 20:8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

2Ki 20:9 And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?

2Ki 20:10 And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.

2Ki 20:11 Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

2Ki 20:12 At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill.

2Ki 20:13 And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see.

2Ki 20:14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.

2Ki 20:15 And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

2Ki 20:16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.

2Ki 20:17 Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord.

2Ki 20:18 And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

2Ki 20:19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

2Ki 20:20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 20:21 And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers; and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

2Ki 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

2Ki 21:2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

2Ki 21:3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

2Ki 21:4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2Ki 21:5 And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

2Ki 21:6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

2Ki 21:7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

2Ki 21:8 And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.

2Ki 21:9 But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

2Ki 21:10 And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,

2Ki 21:11 Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

2Ki 21:12 For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning.

2Ki 21:13 And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.

2Ki 21:14 And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves;

2Ki 21:15 Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.

2Ki 21:16 More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2Ki 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 21:18 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.

2Ki 21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

2Ki 21:20 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

2Ki 21:21 He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

2Ki 21:22 Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

2Ki 21:23 And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.

2Ki 21:24 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.

2Ki 21:25 Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 21:26 He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

2Ki 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

2Ki 22:2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

2Ki 22:3 Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,

2Ki 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people;

2Ki 22:5 And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

2Ki 22:6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

2Ki 22:7 They did not have to give any account of the money which was handed to them, for they made use of it with good faith.

2Ki 22:8 Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan;

2Ki 22:9 Then, after reading it, Shaphan the scribe went in to the king and gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants have given out the money which was in the house, and have given it to the overseers of the work of the house of the Lord.

2Ki 22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king.

2Ki 22:11 And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;

2Ki 22:12 And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,

2Ki 22:13 Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it.

2Ki 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.

2Ki 22:15 And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me,

2Ki 22:16 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

2Ki 22:17 Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.

2Ki 22:18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

2Ki 22:19 Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

2Ki 22:20 For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

2Ki 23:1 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2Ki 23:2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

2Ki 23:3 And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

2Ki 23:4 Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

2Ki 23:5 And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

2Ki 23:6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

2Ki 23:7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

2Ki 23:8 And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.

2Ki 23:9 Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.

2Ki 23:10 And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

2Ki 23:11 And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.

2Ki 23:12 And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

2Ki 23:13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

2Ki 23:14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

2Ki 23:15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

2Ki 23:16 Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

2Ki 23:17 What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el.

2Ki 23:18 So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

2Ki 23:19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

2Ki 23:20 And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

2Ki 23:21 And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

2Ki 23:22 Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

2Ki 23:23 In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

2Ki 23:24 And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.

2Ki 23:25 Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

2Ki 23:26 But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

2Ki 23:27 And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

2Ki 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 23:29 In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

2Ki 23:30 And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

2Ki 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2Ki 23:32 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

2Ki 23:33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2Ki 23:34 Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.

2Ki 23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh.

2Ki 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

2Ki 23:37 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

2Ki 24:1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.

2Ki 24:2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

2Ki 24:3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

2Ki 24:4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

2Ki 24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

2Ki 24:6 So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

2Ki 24:7 And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

2Ki 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

2Ki 24:9 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.

2Ki 24:10 At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.

2Ki 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;

2Ki 24:12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

2Ki 24:13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.

2Ki 24:14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

2Ki 24:15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2Ki 24:16 And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.

2Ki 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.

2Ki 24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2Ki 24:19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

2Ki 24:20 And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

2Ki 25:1 Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.

2Ki 25:2 And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

2Ki 25:3 Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

2Ki 25:4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

2Ki 25:5 But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

2Ki 25:6 And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.

2Ki 25:7 And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

2Ki 25:8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;

2Ki 25:9 And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

2Ki 25:10 And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

2Ki 25:11 And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;

2Ki 25:12 But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.

2Ki 25:13 And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.

2Ki 25:14 And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.

2Ki 25:15 And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.

2Ki 25:16 The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

2Ki 25:17 One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.

2Ki 25:18 And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

2Ki 25:19 And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.

2Ki 25:20 These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

2Ki 25:21 And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.

2Ki 25:22 As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them.

2Ki 25:23 Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.

2Ki 25:24 Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans; go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.

2Ki 25:25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah.

2Ki 25:26 Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans.

2Ki 25:27 And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;

2Ki 25:28 And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

2Ki 25:29 And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.

2Ki 25:30 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.

1Ch 1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh;

1Ch 1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

1Ch 1:3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;

1Ch 1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1Ch 1:5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.

1Ch 1:6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.

1Ch 1:7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

1Ch 1:8 The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.

1Ch 1:9 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

1Ch 1:10 And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

1Ch 1:11 And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim

1Ch 1:12 And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim (from whom came the Philistines).

1Ch 1:13 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth,

1Ch 1:14 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,

1Ch 1:15 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,

1Ch 1:16 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.

1Ch 1:17 The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.

1Ch 1:18 And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

1Ch 1:19 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

1Ch 1:20 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

1Ch 1:21 And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

1Ch 1:22 And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba

1Ch 1:23 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

1Ch 1:24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

1Ch 1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

1Ch 1:26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

1Ch 1:27 Abram (that is Abraham).

1Ch 1:28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

1Ch 1:29 These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,

1Ch 1:30 Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema,

1Ch 1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

1Ch 1:32 And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

1Ch 1:33 And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

1Ch 1:34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

1Ch 1:35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah.

1Ch 1:36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Timna and Amalek.

1Ch 1:37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.

1Ch 1:38 And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan.

1Ch 1:39 And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

1Ch 1:40 The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.

1Ch 1:41 The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.

1Ch 1:42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

1Ch 1:43 Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah.

1Ch 1:44 At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place.

1Ch 1:45 At the death of Jobab, Husham, from the land of the Temanites, became king in his place.

1Ch 1:46 And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith.

1Ch 1:47 And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place.

1Ch 1:48 And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river became king in his place,

1Ch 1:49 And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place.

1Ch 1:50 And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in his place; his town was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

1Ch 1:51 And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,

1Ch 1:52 The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon,

1Ch 1:53 The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar,

1Ch 1:54 The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

1Ch 2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

1Ch 2:2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

1Ch 2:3 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.

1Ch 2:4 And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.

1Ch 2:5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

1Ch 2:6 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.

1Ch 2:7 And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.

1Ch 2:8 And the son of Ethan: Azariah.

1Ch 2:9 And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.

1Ch 2:10 And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;

1Ch 2:11 And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,

1Ch 2:12 And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,

1Ch 2:13 And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

1Ch 2:14 Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,

1Ch 2:15 Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh;

1Ch 2:16 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

1Ch 2:17 And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

1Ch 2:18 And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.

1Ch 2:19 And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur.

1Ch 2:20 And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel.

1Ch 2:21 And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.

1Ch 2:22 And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.

1Ch 2:23 And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

1Ch 2:24 And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.

1Ch 2:25 And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah.

1Ch 2:26 And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam.

1Ch 2:27 And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.

1Ch 2:28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

1Ch 2:29 And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.

1Ch 2:30 And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons.

1Ch 2:31 And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

1Ch 2:32 And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether came to his end without sons.

1Ch 2:33 And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

1Ch 2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha.

1Ch 2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him.

1Ch 2:36 And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,

1Ch 2:37 And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed,

1Ch 2:38 And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah,

1Ch 2:39 And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah,

1Ch 2:40 And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum,

1Ch 2:41 And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama.

1Ch 2:42 And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron.

1Ch 2:43 And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.

1Ch 2:44 And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.

1Ch 2:45 And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

1Ch 2:46 And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.

1Ch 2:47 And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph.

1Ch 2:48 Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah,

1Ch 2:49 And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.

1Ch 2:50 The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,

1Ch 2:51 Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader.

1Ch 2:52 And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.

1Ch 2:53 And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

1Ch 2:54 The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

1Ch 2:55 And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

1Ch 3:1 Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman;

1Ch 3:2 The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;

1Ch 3:3 The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.

1Ch 3:4 He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

1Ch 3:5 And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;

1Ch 3:6 And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet

1Ch 3:7 And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia

1Ch 3:8 And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.

1Ch 3:9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister.

1Ch 3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

1Ch 3:11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

1Ch 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

1Ch 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

1Ch 3:14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.

1Ch 3:15 And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

1Ch 3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

1Ch 3:17 And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son,

1Ch 3:18 And Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.

1Ch 3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

1Ch 3:20 And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.

1Ch 3:21 And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

1Ch 3:22 And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush and Igal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat, six.

1Ch 3:23 And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.

1Ch 3:24 And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Delaiah and Anani, seven.

1Ch 4:1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal.

1Ch 4:2 And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

1Ch 4:3 And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

1Ch 4:4 And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

1Ch 4:5 And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

1Ch 4:6 And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

1Ch 4:7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.

1Ch 4:8 And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

1Ch 4:9 And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.

1Ch 4:10 And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

1Ch 4:11 And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

1Ch 4:12 And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

1Ch 4:13 And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

1Ch 4:14 And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

1Ch 4:15 And the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.

1Ch 4:16 And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

1Ch 4:17 And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

1Ch 4:18 And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the mother of Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.

1Ch 4:19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

1Ch 4:20 And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ...

1Ch 4:21 The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;

1Ch 4:22 And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and went back to Beth-lehem. And the records are very old.

1Ch 4:23 These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.

1Ch 4:24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

1Ch 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

1Ch 4:26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

1Ch 4:27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

1Ch 4:28 And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,

1Ch 4:29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

1Ch 4:30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

1Ch 4:31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king.

1Ch 4:32 And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen and Ashan, five towns;

1Ch 4:33 And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

1Ch 4:34 And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,

1Ch 4:35 And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

1Ch 4:36 And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and Adiel and Jesimiel and Benaiah,

1Ch 4:37 And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

1Ch 4:38 These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their families, and their families became very great in number.

1Ch 4:39 And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.

1Ch 4:40 And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

1Ch 4:41 And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks.

1Ch 4:42 And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.

1Ch 4:43 And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

1Ch 5:1 And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

1Ch 5:2 Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)

1Ch 5:3 The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

1Ch 5:4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

1Ch 5:5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

1Ch 5:6 Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away as a prisoner: he was chief of the Reubenites.

1Ch 5:7 And his brothers by their families, when the list of their generations was made up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

1Ch 5:8 And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who was living in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;

1Ch 5:9 And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead.

1Ch 5:10 And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagarites, and overcame them; and they put up their tents through all the land east of Gilead.

1Ch 5:11 And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

1Ch 5:12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai and Shaphat in Bashan;

1Ch 5:13 And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven of them.

1Ch 5:14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

1Ch 5:15 Ahi, the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, head of their families.

1Ch 5:16 And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.

1Ch 5:17 All these were listed under the names of their families, in the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

1Ch 5:18 There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.

1Ch 5:19 And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.

1Ch 5:20 And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.

1Ch 5:21 And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

1Ch 5:22 And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

1Ch 5:23 And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs.

1Ch 5:24 And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.

1Ch 5:25 And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

1Ch 5:26 And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

1Ch 6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1Ch 6:2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

1Ch 6:3 And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

1Ch 6:4 Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua;

1Ch 6:5 And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi,

1Ch 6:6 And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth;

1Ch 6:7 Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,

1Ch 6:8 And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

1Ch 6:9 And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan,

1Ch 6:10 And Johanan was the father of Azariah, (he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem:)

1Ch 6:11 And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,

1Ch 6:12 And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum,

1Ch 6:13 And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah,

1Ch 6:14 And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak;

1Ch 6:15 And Jehozadak went as a prisoner when the Lord took away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

1Ch 6:16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

1Ch 6:17 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

1Ch 6:18 And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

1Ch 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.

1Ch 6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

1Ch 6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

1Ch 6:22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

1Ch 6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

1Ch 6:24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

1Ch 6:25 And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.

1Ch 6:26 Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

1Ch 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.

1Ch 6:28 And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah.

1Ch 6:29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

1Ch 6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

1Ch 6:31 And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.

1Ch 6:32 They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order.

1Ch 6:33 And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

1Ch 6:34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

1Ch 6:35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

1Ch 6:36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

1Ch 6:37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

1Ch 6:38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

1Ch 6:39 And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right hand, Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

1Ch 6:40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

1Ch 6:41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

1Ch 6:42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

1Ch 6:43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

1Ch 6:44 And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

1Ch 6:45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

1Ch 6:46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

1Ch 6:47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

1Ch 6:48 And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God.

1Ch 6:49 But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God.

1Ch 6:50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

1Ch 6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

1Ch 6:52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

1Ch 6:53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

1Ch 6:54 Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

1Ch 6:55 To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

1Ch 6:56 But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

1Ch 6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:58 And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:59 And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:60 And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.

1Ch 6:61 And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

1Ch 6:62 And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns.

1Ch 6:63 And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

1Ch 6:64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

1Ch 6:65 And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.

1Ch 6:66 And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.

1Ch 6:67 And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:68 And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:69 And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:70 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

1Ch 6:71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:72 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:73 And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:74 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:75 And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.

1Ch 6:77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:78 And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:79 And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts;

1Ch 6:80 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts,

1Ch 6:81 And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

1Ch 7:1 And of the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.

1Ch 7:2 And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred.

1Ch 7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs.

1Ch 7:4 And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

1Ch 7:5 And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.

1Ch 7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

1Ch 7:7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families.

1Ch 7:8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jerimoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

1Ch 7:9 And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.

1Ch 7:10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar.

1Ch 7:11 All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

1Ch 7:12 And Shuppim and Huppim. The sons of Dan, Hushim his son, one.

1Ch 7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

1Ch 7:14 The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

1Ch 7:15 (And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.

1Ch 7:16 And Maacah, the wife of Gilead, gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Peresh; and his brother was named Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

1Ch 7:17 And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh.

1Ch 7:18 And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.

1Ch 7:19 And the sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.

1Ch 7:20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,

1Ch 7:21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle.

1Ch 7:22 And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

1Ch 7:23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

1Ch 7:24 And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.

1Ch 7:25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan;

1Ch 7:26 Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

1Ch 7:27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.

1Ch 7:28 Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

1Ch 7:29 And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living.

1Ch 7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister.

1Ch 7:31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

1Ch 7:32 And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister.

1Ch 7:33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.

1Ch 7:34 And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

1Ch 7:35 And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.

1Ch 7:36 The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,

1Ch 7:37 Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera.

1Ch 7:38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara.

1Ch 7:39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia.

1Ch 7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.

1Ch 8:1 And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

1Ch 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

1Ch 8:3 And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,

1Ch 8:4 And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah

1Ch 8:5 And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram.

1Ch 8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of those living in Geba: Iglaam and Alemeth

1Ch 8:7 And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera; and Iglaam was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

1Ch 8:8 And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;

1Ch 8:9 And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.

1Ch 8:10 And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of families.

1Ch 8:11 And Hushim became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

1Ch 8:12 And the sons of Elpaal: Eber and Misham and Shemed (he was the builder of Ono and Lod and their daughter-towns);

1Ch 8:13 And Beriah and Shema, who were heads of the families of those who were living in Aijalon, who put to flight the people living in Gath;

1Ch 8:14 And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth.

1Ch 8:15 And Zebadiah and Arad and Eder

1Ch 8:16 And Michael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriah;

1Ch 8:17 And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber

1Ch 8:18 And Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;

1Ch 8:19 And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi

1Ch 8:20 And Elienai and Zillethai and Eliel

1Ch 8:21 And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei;

1Ch 8:22 And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel

1Ch 8:23 And Abdon and Zichri and Hanan

1Ch 8:24 And Hananiah and Elam and Anathothijah

1Ch 8:25 And Iphdeiah and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;

1Ch 8:26 And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah

1Ch 8:27 And Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zichri, the sons of Jeremoth.

1Ch 8:28 These were heads of families in their generations; chief men: these were living in Jerusalem.

1Ch 8:29 And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

1Ch 8:30 And his oldest son Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

1Ch 8:31 And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth.

1Ch 8:32 And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

1Ch 8:33 And Ner was the father of Abner, and Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

1Ch 8:34 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

1Ch 8:35 And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tarea and Ahaz.

1Ch 8:36 And Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza;

1Ch 8:37 And Moza was the father of Binea: Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son;

1Ch 8:38 And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

1Ch 8:39 And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his oldest son, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

1Ch 8:40 And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.

1Ch 9:1 So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.

1Ch 9:2 Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

1Ch 9:3 And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;

1Ch 9:4 Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.

1Ch 9:5 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.

1Ch 9:6 And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.

1Ch 9:7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, Judah, the son of Hassenuah,

1Ch 9:8 And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

1Ch 9:9 And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.

1Ch 9:10 And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin

1Ch 9:11 And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

1Ch 9:12 And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

1Ch 9:13 And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God.

1Ch 9:14 And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

1Ch 9:15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

1Ch 9:16 And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.

1Ch 9:17 And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.

1Ch 9:18 Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

1Ch 9:19 And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway.

1Ch 9:20 In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him!

1Ch 9:21 Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting.

1Ch 9:22 There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

1Ch 9:23 So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers.

1Ch 9:24 There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.

1Ch 9:25 And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.

1Ch 9:26 For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.

1Ch 9:27 Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.

1Ch 9:28 Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.

1Ch 9:29 And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.

1Ch 9:30 And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices.

1Ch 9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes.

1Ch 9:32 And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.

1Ch 9:33 And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.

1Ch 9:34 These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.

1Ch 9:35 And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

1Ch 9:36 And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

1Ch 9:37 And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth

1Ch 9:38 Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

1Ch 9:39 And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father of Saul; and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

1Ch 9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

1Ch 9:41 And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tahrea and Ahaz.

1Ch 9:42 And Ahaz was the father of Jarah; and Jarah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza.

1Ch 9:43 And Moza was the father of Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

1Ch 9:44 And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest son, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

1Ch 10:1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

1Ch 10:2 And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

1Ch 10:3 And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.

1Ch 10:4 Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.

1Ch 10:5 And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death.

1Ch 10:6 So death overtook Saul and his three sons; all his family came to an end together.

1Ch 10:7 And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.

1Ch 10:8 Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa.

1Ch 10:9 And they took everything off him, and took his head and his war-dress, and sent word into the land of the Philistines round about to give the news to their gods and to the people.

1Ch 10:10 And they put his war-dress in the house of their gods, and put up his head in the house of Dagon.

1Ch 10:11 And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1Ch 10:12 All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body and the bodies of his sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their bones to rest under the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food for seven days.

1Ch 10:13 So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,

1Ch 10:14 And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.

1Ch 11:1 Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

1Ch 11:2 In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

1Ch 11:3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

1Ch 11:4 Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (which is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the people of the land, were there.

1Ch 11:5 And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

1Ch 11:6 And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.

1Ch 11:7 And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

1Ch 11:8 And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.

1Ch 11:9 And David became greater and greater in power, because the Lord of armies was with him.

1Ch 11:10 Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.

1Ch 11:11 This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear.

1Ch 11:12 And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters.

1Ch 11:13 He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines had come together for the fight, near a bit of land full of barley; and the people went in flight before the Philistines.

1Ch 11:14 And he took up his position in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack, and overcame the Philistines; and the Lord gave a great salvation.

1Ch 11:15 And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

1Ch 11:16 At that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.

1Ch 11:17 And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town!

1Ch 11:18 So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David; but David would not take it, but made an offering of it, draining it out to the Lord,

1Ch 11:19 Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.

1Ch 11:20 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, for he put to death three hundred with his spear, but he had not a name among the three.

1Ch 11:21 Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three.

1Ch 11:22 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.

1Ch 11:23 And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

1Ch 11:24 These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

1Ch 11:25 He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

1Ch 11:26 And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

1Ch 11:27 Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite,

1Ch 11:28 Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

1Ch 11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

1Ch 11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled, the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

1Ch 11:31 Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

1Ch 11:32 Hurai of Nahale-gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

1Ch 11:33 Azmaveth of Bahurim, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

1Ch 11:34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of Shage the Hararite,

1Ch 11:35 Ahiam, the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal, the son of Ur,

1Ch 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

1Ch 11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai,

1Ch 11:38 Joel, the brother of Nathan, Mibhar, the son of Hagri,

1Ch 11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, and Naharai the Berothite, the servant who had the care of the arms of Joab, the son of Zeruiah;

1Ch 11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

1Ch 11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad, the son of Ahlai,

1Ch 11:42 Adina, the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him;

1Ch 11:43 Hanan, the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

1Ch 11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel, the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

1Ch 11:45 Jediael, the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

1Ch 11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

1Ch 11:47 Eliel and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

1Ch 12:1 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.

1Ch 12:2 They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.

1Ch 12:3 Ahiezer was their chief, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite;

1Ch 12:4 And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;

1Ch 12:5 Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

1Ch 12:6 Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

1Ch 12:7 And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

1Ch 12:8 And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;

1Ch 12:9 Ezer their chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

1Ch 12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

1Ch 12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

1Ch 12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

1Ch 12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

1Ch 12:14 These Gadites were captains of the army; the least of them was captain over a hundred men, and the greatest over a thousand.

1Ch 12:15 It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west.

1Ch 12:16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

1Ch 12:17 And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.

1Ch 12:18 Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, We are yours, David, we are on your side, O son of Jesse: may peace be with you and peace be with your helpers; for God is your helper. Then David took them into his army and made them captains of the band.

1Ch 12:19 And some of the men of Manasseh came over to David, when he went with the Philistines to the war against Saul, but he gave them no help: for the lords of the Philistines, after discussion, sent him away, saying, He will go back to his master Saul, at the price of our lives.

1Ch 12:20 Then when he went back to Ziklag, there came over to him, of the men of Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands from the armies of Manasseh.

1Ch 12:21 And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army.

1Ch 12:22 And from day to day more supporters came to David, till he had a great army like the army of God.

1Ch 12:23 These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

1Ch 12:24 There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

1Ch 12:25 Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;

1Ch 12:26 Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.

1Ch 12:27 And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men;

1Ch 12:28 And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.

1Ch 12:29 And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.

1Ch 12:30 And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

1Ch 12:31 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king.

1Ch 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders.

1Ch 12:33 Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men.

1Ch 12:34 And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven thousand spearmen.

1Ch 12:35 And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.

1Ch 12:36 And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight.

1Ch 12:37 From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war.

1Ch 12:38 All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight, came to Hebron with the full purpose of making David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were united in their desire to make David king.

1Ch 12:39 For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.

1Ch 12:40 And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

1Ch 13:1 Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief.

1Ch 13:2 And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;

1Ch 13:3 And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions.

1Ch 13:4 And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them.

1Ch 13:5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

1Ch 13:6 And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones.

1Ch 13:7 And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it out of the house of Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of the cart.

1Ch 13:8 Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.

1Ch 13:9 And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping.

1Ch 13:10 And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.

1Ch 13:11 And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day.

1Ch 13:12 And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

1Ch 13:13 So David did not let the ark come back to him to the town of David, but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1Ch 13:14 And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.

1Ch 14:1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

1Ch 14:2 And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel.

1Ch 14:3 And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

1Ch 14:4 These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon

1Ch 14:5 And Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet

1Ch 14:6 And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia

1Ch 14:7 And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet.

1Ch 14:8 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them.

1Ch 14:9 Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

1Ch 14:10 And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.

1Ch 14:11 So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David overcame them there, and David said, God has let the forces fighting against me be broken by my hand, as a wall is broken down by rushing water; so they gave that place the name of Baal-perazim.

1Ch 14:12 And the Philistines did not take their images with them in their flight; and at David's orders they were burned with fire.

1Ch 14:13 Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley.

1Ch 14:14 And David went for directions to God; and God said to him, You are not to go up after them; but, turning away from them, come face to face with them opposite the spice-trees.

1Ch 14:15 And at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go out to the fight, for God has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

1Ch 14:16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

1Ch 14:17 And David's name was honoured in all lands; and the Lord put the fear of him on all nations.

1Ch 15:1 And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

1Ch 15:2 Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever.

1Ch 15:3 And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.

1Ch 15:4 And David got together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites;

1Ch 15:5 Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty;

1Ch 15:6 Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;

1Ch 15:7 Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty;

1Ch 15:8 Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred;

1Ch 15:9 Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;

1Ch 15:10 Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.

1Ch 15:11 And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab,

1Ch 15:12 And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

1Ch 15:13 For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

1Ch 15:14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1Ch 15:15 And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.

1Ch 15:16 And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.

1Ch 15:17 So Heman, the son of Joel, and, of his brothers, Asaph, the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan, the son of Kushaiah, were put in position by the Levites;

1Ch 15:18 And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the door-keepers.

1Ch 15:19 So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly;

1Ch 15:20 And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth.

1Ch 15:21 And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song.

1Ch 15:22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was master of the music: he gave directions about the song, because he was expert.

1Ch 15:23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.

1Ch 15:24 And Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, made music on the horns before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark.

1Ch 15:25 So David, and the responsible men of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went with joy to get the ark of the agreement of the Lord out of the house of Obed-edom.

1Ch 15:26 And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.

1Ch 15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fair linen, as were all the Levites who took up the ark, and those who made melody, and Chenaniah the master of those who made melody; and David had on a linen ephod;

1Ch 15:28 So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.

1Ch 15:29 And when the ark of the agreement of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and playing; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

1Ch 16:1 Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.

1Ch 16:2 And when David had come to an end of making the burned offerings and peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord.

1Ch 16:3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.

1Ch 16:4 And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel:

1Ch 16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly;

1Ch 16:6 And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, blowing horns all the time before the ark of the agreement of God.

1Ch 16:7 Then on that day David first made the giving of praise to the Lord the work of Asaph and his brothers.

1Ch 16:8 O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.

1Ch 16:9 Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.

1Ch 16:10 Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

1Ch 16:11 Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

1Ch 16:12 Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;

1Ch 16:13 O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

1Ch 16:14 He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.

1Ch 16:15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

1Ch 16:16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

1Ch 16:17 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

1Ch 16:18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

1Ch 16:19 When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

1Ch 16:20 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;

1Ch 16:21 He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

1Ch 16:22 Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

1Ch 16:23 Make songs to the Lord, all the earth; give the good news of his salvation day by day.

1Ch 16:24 Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.

1Ch 16:25 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and he is more to be feared than all other gods.

1Ch 16:26 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

1Ch 16:27 Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are in his holy place.

1Ch 16:28 Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.

1Ch 16:29 Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come before him; give worship to the Lord in holy robes.

1Ch 16:30 Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is ordered so that it may not be moved.

1Ch 16:31 Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.

1Ch 16:32 Let the sea be thundering with all its waters; let the field be glad, and everything which is in it;

1Ch 16:33 Then let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy before the Lord, for he is come to be the judge of the earth.

1Ch 16:34 O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

1Ch 16:35 And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name and have glory in your praise.

1Ch 16:36 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and for ever. And all the people said, So be it; and gave praise to the Lord.

1Ch 16:37 So he made Asaph and his brothers keep their places there before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, to do whatever had to be done before the ark at all times day by day:

1Ch 16:38 And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with their brothers, sixty-eight of them, to be door-keepers:

1Ch 16:39 And Zadok the priest, with his brothers the priests, before the House of the Lord in the high place at Gibeon;

1Ch 16:40 To give burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of burned offerings morning and evening, every day, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord which he gave to Israel;

1Ch 16:41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever;

1Ch 16:42 And Heman and Jeduthun had horns and brass instruments sounding loudly, and instruments of music for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun were to be at the door.

1Ch 16:43 And all the people went away, every man to his house; and David went back to give a blessing to his family.

1Ch 17:1 Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

1Ch 17:2 And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.

1Ch 17:3 But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

1Ch 17:4 Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

1Ch 17:5 For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

1Ch 17:6 In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?

1Ch 17:7 So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

1Ch 17:8 And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

1Ch 17:9 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,

1Ch 17:10 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

1Ch 17:11 And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

1Ch 17:12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

1Ch 17:13 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you;

1Ch 17:14 But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned.

1Ch 17:15 So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.

1Ch 17:16 Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

1Ch 17:17 And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, looking on me as on one of high position, O Lord God.

1Ch 17:18 What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant.

1Ch 17:19 O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart, you have done all these great things and let them be seen.

1Ch 17:20 O Lord, there is no one like you, and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

1Ch 17:21 And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt?

1Ch 17:22 For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

1Ch 17:23 And now, Lord, let your words about your servant and about his family be made certain for ever, and do as you have said.

1Ch 17:24 So let your words be made certain and your name be made great, when men say, The Lord of armies is the God of Israel; and when the family of David your servant is made strong before you.

1Ch 17:25 For you, O my God, have let your servant see that you will make him head of a line of kings; and so it has come into your servant's heart to make his prayer to you.

1Ch 17:26 And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have said you will give this good thing to your servant:

1Ch 17:27 And now you have been pleased to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you; you, O Lord, have given your blessing, and a blessing will be on it for ever.

1Ch 18:1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.

1Ch 18:2 And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.

1Ch 18:3 Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.

1Ch 18:4 And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

1Ch 18:5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand Aramaeans.

1Ch 18:6 Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the Aramaeans became his servants and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

1Ch 18:7 And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.

1Ch 18:8 And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer, David took a great store of brass, of which Solomon made the great brass water-vessel and the brass pillars and vessels.

1Ch 18:9 Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,

1Ch 18:10 He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou; and he gave him all sorts of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

1Ch 18:11 These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold he had taken from all nations; from Edom and Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.

1Ch 18:12 And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,

1Ch 18:13 David put armed forces in all the towns of Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

1Ch 18:14 So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.

1Ch 18:15 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records.

1Ch 18:16 And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;

1Ch 18:17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.

1Ch 19:1 Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, and his son became king in his place.

1Ch 19:2 And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.

1Ch 19:3 But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?

1Ch 19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.

1Ch 19:5 Then certain men went and gave David word of what had been done to them. And he sent out with the purpose of meeting them; for the men were greatly shamed. And the king said, Keep where you are at Jericho till your hair is long again, and then come back.

1Ch 19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver as payment for war-carriages and horsemen from Mesopotamia and Aram-maacah and Zobah.

1Ch 19:7 So with this money they got thirty-two thousand war-carriages, and the help of the king of Maacah and his people, who came and took up their position in front of Medeba. And the children of Ammon came together from their towns for the fight.

1Ch 19:8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

1Ch 19:9 So the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position on the way into the town; and the kings who had come were stationed by themselves in the field.

1Ch 19:10 Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position against him in front and at his back, he took all the best men of Israel, and put them in line against the Aramaeans;

1Ch 19:11 And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon with Abishai, his brother, at their head.

1Ch 19:12 And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then come to my help; and if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

1Ch 19:13 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

1Ch 19:14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

1Ch 19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, his brother, and came into the town. Then Joab came back to Jerusalem.

1Ch 19:16 And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they sent men to get the Aramaeans who were on the other side of the River, with Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer's army, at their head.

1Ch 19:17 And word of this was given to David; and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam and put his forces in position against them. And when David's forces were in position against the Aramaeans, the fight was started.

1Ch 19:18 And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven thousand Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and put to death Shophach, the captain of the army.

1Ch 19:19 And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants: and the Aramaeans would give no more help to the children of Ammon.

1Ch 20:1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste.

1Ch 20:2 And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head; its weight was a talent of gold and it had stones of great price in it; and it was put on David's head, and he took a great store of goods from the town.

1Ch 20:3 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

1Ch 20:4 Now after this there was war with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Sippai, one of the offspring of the Rephaim; and they were overcome.

1Ch 20:5 And again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan, the son of Jair, put to death Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.

1Ch 20:6 And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

1Ch 20:7 And when he put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, put him to death.

1Ch 20:8 These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

1Ch 21:1 Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

1Ch 21:2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

1Ch 21:3 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

1Ch 21:4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

1Ch 21:5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

1Ch 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

1Ch 21:7 And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

1Ch 21:8 Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

1Ch 21:9 Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,

1Ch 21:10 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.

1Ch 21:11 So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:

1Ch 21:12 Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.

1Ch 21:13 And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

1Ch 21:14 So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.

1Ch 21:15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1Ch 21:16 And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

1Ch 21:17 And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.

1Ch 21:18 Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1Ch 21:19 And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.

1Ch 21:20 And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.

1Ch 21:21 And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.

1Ch 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.

1Ch 21:23 And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.

1Ch 21:24 And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.

1Ch 21:25 So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

1Ch 21:26 And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

1Ch 21:27 Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.

1Ch 21:28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.

1Ch 21:29 For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

1Ch 21:30 But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

1Ch 22:1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.

1Ch 22:2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

1Ch 22:3 And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;

1Ch 22:4 And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.

1Ch 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

1Ch 22:6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

1Ch 22:7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

1Ch 22:8 But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

1Ch 22:9 But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;

1Ch 22:10 He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

1Ch 22:11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.

1Ch 22:12 Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

1Ch 22:13 And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.

1Ch 22:14 Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

1Ch 22:15 And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

1Ch 22:16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

1Ch 22:17 Then David gave orders to all the chiefs of Israel to give their help to Solomon his son, saying,

1Ch 22:18 Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side? for the Lord has given the people of the land into my hands, and the land is overcome before the Lord and before his people.

1Ch 22:19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

1Ch 23:1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

1Ch 23:2 And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

1Ch 23:3 And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

1Ch 23:4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;

1Ch 23:5 Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

1Ch 23:6 And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1Ch 23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

1Ch 23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three.

1Ch 23:9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan.

1Ch 23:10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei.

1Ch 23:11 Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family.

1Ch 23:12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

1Ch 23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever.

1Ch 23:14 And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi.

1Ch 23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

1Ch 23:16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.

1Ch 23:17 And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.

1Ch 23:18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first.

1Ch 23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

1Ch 23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.

1Ch 23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

1Ch 23:22 And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.

1Ch 23:23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.

1Ch 23:24 These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

1Ch 23:25 For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever;

1Ch 23:26 And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.

1Ch 23:27 So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

1Ch 23:28 Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,

1Ch 23:29 The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;

1Ch 23:30 They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening;

1Ch 23:31 At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;

1Ch 23:32 And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

1Ch 24:1 Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

1Ch 24:2 But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.

1Ch 24:3 And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, made distribution of them into their positions for their work.

1Ch 24:4 And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.

1Ch 24:5 So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision, one with another; for there were rulers of the holy place and rulers of the house of God among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.

1Ch 24:6 And Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was a Levite, put down their names in writing, the king being present with the rulers, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites; one family being taken for Eleazar and then one for Ithamar, and so on.

1Ch 24:7 Now the first name to come out was that of Jehoiarib; the second Jedaiah,

1Ch 24:8 The third Harim, the fourth Seorim,

1Ch 24:9 The fifth Malchijah, the sixth Mijamin,

1Ch 24:10 The seventh Hakkoz, the eighth Abijah,

1Ch 24:11 The ninth Jeshua, the tenth Shecaniah,

1Ch 24:12 The eleventh Eliashib, the twelfth Jakim,

1Ch 24:13 The thirteenth Huppah, the fourteenth Jeshebeab,

1Ch 24:14 The fifteenth Bilgah, the sixteenth Immer,

1Ch 24:15 The seventeenth Hezir, the eighteenth Happizzez,

1Ch 24:16 The nineteenth Pethahiah, the twentieth Jehezkel,

1Ch 24:17 The twenty-first Jachin, the twenty-second Gamul,

1Ch 24:18 The twenty-third Delaiah, the twenty-fourth Maaziah.

1Ch 24:19 So they were put into their different groups, to take their places in the house of the Lord, in agreement with the rules made by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

1Ch 24:20 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

1Ch 24:21 Of Rehabiah; of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.

1Ch 24:22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.

1Ch 24:23 And the sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

1Ch 24:24 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

1Ch 24:25 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

1Ch 24:26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah.

1Ch 24:27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Shoham and Zaccur and Ibri.

1Ch 24:28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

1Ch 24:29 Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel.

1Ch 24:30 And the sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites by their families.

1Ch 24:31 Selection was made of these in the same way as of their brothers the sons of Aaron, David the king being present, with Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; the families of the chief in the same way as those of his younger brother.

1Ch 25:1 Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was:

1Ch 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king;

1Ch 25:3 Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord.

1Ch 25:4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;

1Ch 25:5 All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

1Ch 25:6 All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.

1Ch 25:7 And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

1Ch 25:8 And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner.

1Ch 25:9 Now of the group of Asaph, the first name to come out was Joseph; the second Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve?

1Ch 25:10 The third Zaccur, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:11 The fourth Izri, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:12 The fifth Nethaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:13 The sixth Bukkiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:14 The seventh Jesharelah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:15 The eighth Jeshaiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:16 The ninth Mattaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:17 The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:18 The eleventh Azarel, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:19 The twelfth Hashabiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:20 The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:21 The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:22 The fifteenth Jeremoth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:23 The sixteenth Hananiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:24 The seventeenth Joshbekashah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:25 The eighteenth Hanani, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:26 The nineteenth Mallothi, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:27 The twentieth Eliathah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:28 The twenty-first Hothir, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:29 The twenty-second Giddalti, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:30 The twenty-third Mahazioth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1Ch 25:31 The twenty-fourth Romamti-ezer, with his sons and his brothers, twelve.

1Ch 26:1 For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.

1Ch 26:2 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

1Ch 26:3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.

1Ch 26:4 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,

1Ch 26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him.

1Ch 26:6 And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men.

1Ch 26:7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.

1Ch 26:8 All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom.

1Ch 26:9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men.

1Ch 26:10 And Hosah, a son of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the oldest, his father made him chief);

1Ch 26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: Hosah had thirteen sons and brothers.

1Ch 26:12 Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord.

1Ch 26:13 And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great.

1Ch 26:14 And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him.

1Ch 26:15 To Obed-edom, that on the south; and to his sons, the store-house.

1Ch 26:16 To Hosah, the door on the west, by the door of Shallecheth, at the footway which goes up, watch by watch.

1Ch 26:17 On the east were six Levites a day, and on the north and the south four a day, and for the store-house two and two.

1Ch 26:18 For the pillared way, on the west, four at the footway and two at the pillared way itself.

1Ch 26:19 These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.

1Ch 26:20 And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.

1Ch 26:21 The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli.

1Ch 26:22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord.

1Ch 26:23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:

1Ch 26:24 And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores.

1Ch 26:25 And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.

1Ch 26:26 Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.

1Ch 26:27 From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.

1Ch 26:28 And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of Kish, and Abner, the son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, had made holy; whatever anyone had given, it was under the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.

1Ch 26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had to do all the public business of Israel, in relation to judges and men in authority.

1Ch 26:30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants.

1Ch 26:31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.

1Ch 26:32 And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able men, heads of families, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in everything to do with God, and for the king's business.

1Ch 27:1 Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:2 Over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:3 He was of the sons of Perez, and the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.

1Ch 27:4 And over the division for the second month was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, the ruler; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:5 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:6 This is the same Benaiah who was the great man of the thirty, chief of the thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad his son.

1Ch 27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel, the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1Ch 27:16 And over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer, the son of Zichri; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah, the son of Maacah;

1Ch 27:17 Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

1Ch 27:18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael;

1Ch 27:19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth, the son of Azriel;

1Ch 27:20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel, the son of Pedaiah;

1Ch 27:21 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo, the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel, the son of Abner;

1Ch 27:22 Of Dan, Azarel, the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

1Ch 27:23 But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

1Ch 27:24 The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.

1Ch 27:25 And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the king's property; Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of all store-houses in country places and in the towns and little towns and strong places;

1Ch 27:26 Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;

1Ch 27:27 Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine;

1Ch 27:28 Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;

1Ch 27:29 And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys;

1Ch 27:30 Obil the Ishmaelite had control of the camels and Jehdeiah the Meronothite of the she-asses;

1Ch 27:31 The flocks were in the care of Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were the controllers of King David's property.

1Ch 27:32 Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in discussion, and a man of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni, had the care of the king's sons;

1Ch 27:33 And Ahithophel was the king's expert in discussion and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.

1Ch 27:34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

1Ch 28:1 And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.

1Ch 28:2 Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

1Ch 28:3 But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

1Ch 28:4 Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

1Ch 28:5 And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

1Ch 28:6 And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.

1Ch 28:7 I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.

1Ch 28:8 So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.

1Ch 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

1Ch 28:10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

1Ch 28:11 Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

1Ch 28:12 And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things;

1Ch 28:13 And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;

1Ch 28:14 Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;

1Ch 28:15 And gold by weight for the light-supports and the vessels for the lights, the weight of gold needed for every support and every vessel for lights; and for the silver light-supports, the weight of silver needed for every support and for the different vessels as every one was to be used;

1Ch 28:16 And gold by weight for the tables for the holy bread for every table, and silver for the silver tables;

1Ch 28:17 Clear gold for the meat-hooks and the basins and the cups; for the gold basins, gold enough by weight for every basin; and silver by weight for every silver basin;

1Ch 28:18 And the best gold for the altar of perfumes; and gold for the design of the carriage, for the winged ones whose wings were outstretched covering the ark of the Lord's agreement.

1Ch 28:19 All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.

1Ch 28:20 And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.

1Ch 28:21 And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.

1Ch 29:1 And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my son, the only one who has been marked out by God, is still young and untested, and the work is great, for this great house is not for man, but for the Lord God.

1Ch 29:2 Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

1Ch 29:3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

1Ch 29:4 Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house:

1Ch 29:5 Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?

1Ch 29:6 Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves;

1Ch 29:7 And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

1Ch 29:8 And those who had stones of great price gave them to the store of the house of the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

1Ch 29:9 Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.

1Ch 29:10 So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.

1Ch 29:11 Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.

1Ch 29:12 Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.

1Ch 29:13 So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.

1Ch 29:14 But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

1Ch 29:15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

1Ch 29:16 O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

1Ch 29:17 And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.

1Ch 29:18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

1Ch 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.

1Ch 29:20 And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king.

1Ch 29:21 And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel.

1Ch 29:22 And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.

1Ch 29:23 So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in place of his father David, and everything went well for him; and all Israel was under his authority.

1Ch 29:24 And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

1Ch 29:25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.

1Ch 29:26 Now David, the son of Jesse, was king over all Israel.

1Ch 29:27 For forty years he was ruling as king over Israel, seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1Ch 29:28 And he came to his end after a long life, full of days and great wealth and honour; and Solomon his son became king in his place.

1Ch 29:29 Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;

1Ch 29:30 Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.

2Ch 1:1 And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.

2Ch 1:2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

2Ch 1:3 Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.

2Ch 1:4 But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

2Ch 1:5 And the altar of brass which Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the Tent of the Lord; and Solomon and all the people went to give worship there.

2Ch 1:6 And Solomon went up there to the brass altar before the Lord at the Tent of meeting, offering on it a thousand burned offerings.

2Ch 1:7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

2Ch 1:8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

2Ch 1:9 Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.

2Ch 1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?

2Ch 1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:

2Ch 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.

2Ch 1:13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

2Ch 1:14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

2Ch 1:15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

2Ch 1:16 And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

2Ch 1:17 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

2Ch 2:1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

2Ch 2:2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

2Ch 2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

2Ch 2:4 See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.

2Ch 2:5 And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

2Ch 2:6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

2Ch 2:7 So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.

2Ch 2:8 And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

2Ch 2:9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

2Ch 2:10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

2Ch 2:11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.

2Ch 2:12 And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

2Ch 2:13 And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,

2Ch 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David.

2Ch 2:15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

2Ch 2:16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

2Ch 2:17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

2Ch 2:18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

2Ch 3:1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2Ch 3:2 The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

2Ch 3:3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

2Ch 3:4 And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

2Ch 3:5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

2Ch 3:6 And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

2Ch 3:7 All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

2Ch 3:8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

2Ch 3:9 And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

2Ch 3:10 And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

2Ch 3:11 Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.

2Ch 3:12 And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

2Ch 3:13 Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house.

2Ch 3:14 And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

2Ch 3:15 And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

2Ch 3:16 And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

2Ch 3:17 He put up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right side and one on the left, naming the one on the right Jachin and that on the left Boaz.

2Ch 4:1 Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

2Ch 4:2 And he made the great water-vessel of metal, round in form, measuring ten cubits across from edge to edge; it was five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

2Ch 4:3 And under it was a design of flowers all round it, ten to a cubit, circling the water-vessel in two lines; they were made from liquid metal at the same time as the water-vessel.

2Ch 4:4 It was supported on twelve oxen, three facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east, the water-vessel resting on top of them; their back parts were all turned to the middle of it.

2Ch 4:5 It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.

2Ch 4:6 And he made ten washing-vessels, putting five on the right side and five on the left; such things as were used in making the burned offering were washed in them; but the great water-vessel was to be used by the priests for washing themselves.

2Ch 4:7 And he made the ten gold supports for the lights, as directions had been given for them, and he put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left.

2Ch 4:8 He made ten tables, and put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred gold basins.

2Ch 4:9 Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.

2Ch 4:10 He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.

2Ch 4:11 And Huram made all the pots and the spades and the basins. So he came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of God:

2Ch 4:12 The two pillars, and the two crowns on the tops of the pillars, and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars;

2Ch 4:13 And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars.

2Ch 4:14 And he made the ten bases and the ten washing-vessels which were on the bases;

2Ch 4:15 The great water-vessel with the twelve oxen under it.

2Ch 4:16 All the pots and the spades and the meat-hooks and their vessels, which Huram, who was as his father, made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.

2Ch 4:17 The king made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, in the soft earth between Succoth and Zeredah.

2Ch 4:18 So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.

2Ch 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels used in the house of God, the gold altar and the tables on which the holy bread was placed,

2Ch 4:20 And the supports for the lights with their lights, to be burning in the regular way in front of the inmost room, of the best gold;

2Ch 4:21 The flowers and the vessels for the lights and the instruments used for them, were all of gold; it was the best gold.

2Ch 4:22 The scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, of the best gold; and the inner doors of the house, opening into the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, were all of gold.

2Ch 5:1 So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.

2Ch 5:2 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

2Ch 5:3 And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

2Ch 5:4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

2Ch 5:5 They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.

2Ch 5:6 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

2Ch 5:7 And the priests took the ark of the Lord's agreement and put it in its place, in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

2Ch 5:8 For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

2Ch 5:9 The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

2Ch 5:10 Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

2Ch 5:11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

2Ch 5:12 And the Levites who made the music, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, robed in fair linen, were in their places with their brass and corded instruments at the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing horns;)

2Ch 5:13 And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

2Ch 5:14 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.

2Ch 6:1 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men,

2Ch 6:2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

2Ch 6:3 Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.

2Ch 6:4 And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to my father David, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,

2Ch 6:5 From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

2Ch 6:6 But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

2Ch 6:7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2Ch 6:8 But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

2Ch 6:9 But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

2Ch 6:10 And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

2Ch 6:11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.

2Ch 6:12 Then he took his place in front of the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present,

2Ch 6:13 (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

2Ch 6:14 And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;

2Ch 6:15 For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

2Ch 6:16 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

2Ch 6:17 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, make your word come true which you said to your servant David.

2Ch 6:18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

2Ch 6:19 Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant and to his prayer for grace, O Lord my God, and give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant makes before you;

2Ch 6:20 That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

2Ch 6:21 And give ear to the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear from heaven your living-place; and hearing have mercy.

2Ch 6:22 If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

2Ch 6:23 Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

2Ch 6:24 And if your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers and requesting your grace in this house:

2Ch 6:25 Then give ear from heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

2Ch 6:26 When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

2Ch 6:27 Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

2Ch 6:28 If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

2Ch 6:29 Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

2Ch 6:30 Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; (for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;)

2Ch 6:31 So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.

2Ch 6:32 And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

2Ch 6:33 Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.

2Ch 6:34 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayers to you turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have put up for your name:

2Ch 6:35 Then give ear from heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.

2Ch 6:36 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

2Ch 6:37 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

2Ch 6:38 If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

2Ch 6:39 Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.

2Ch 6:40 Now, O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

2Ch 6:41 Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.

2Ch 6:42 O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.

2Ch 7:1 Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord.

2Ch 7:2 And the priests were not able to go into the house of the Lord, for the Lord's house was full of the glory of the Lord.

2Ch 7:3 And all the children of Israel were looking on when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they went down on their knees, with their faces to the earth, worshipping and praising the Lord, and saying, He is good; for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

2Ch 7:4 Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.

2Ch 7:5 King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

2Ch 7:6 And the priests were in their places, and the Levites with their instruments of music for the Lord's song, which David the king had made for the praise of the Lord whose mercy is unchanging for ever, when David gave praise by their hand; and the priests were sounding horns before them; and all Israel were on their feet.

2Ch 7:7 Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat.

2Ch 7:8 So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

2Ch 7:9 And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

2Ch 7:10 And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

2Ch 7:11 So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

2Ch 7:12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

2Ch 7:13 If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

2Ch 7:14 If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

2Ch 7:15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

2Ch 7:16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

2Ch 7:17 And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

2Ch 7:18 Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.

2Ch 7:19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

2Ch 7:20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

2Ch 7:21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

2Ch 7:22 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.

2Ch 8:1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

2Ch 8:2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

2Ch 8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

2Ch 8:4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

2Ch 8:5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

2Ch 8:6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

2Ch 8:7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:

2Ch 8:8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;

2Ch 8:9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

2Ch 8:10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

2Ch 8:11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

2Ch 8:12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

2Ch 8:13 Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.

2Ch 8:14 And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

2Ch 8:15 All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.

2Ch 8:16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

2Ch 8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

2Ch 8:18 And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.

2Ch 9:1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

2Ch 9:2 And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which he did not make clear to her.

2Ch 9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

2Ch 9:4 And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

2Ch 9:5 And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.

2Ch 9:6 But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and truly, word was not given me of half your great wisdom; you are much greater than they said.

2Ch 9:7 Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

2Ch 9:8 Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.

2Ch 9:9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never had such spices been seen as the queen of Sheba gave to Solomon.

2Ch 9:10 And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.

2Ch 9:11 And with the sandal-wood the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody; never before had such been seen in the land of Judah.

2Ch 9:12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

2Ch 9:13 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

2Ch 9:14 And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

2Ch 9:15 And King Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

2Ch 9:16 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, using three hundred shekels of gold for every cover, and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

2Ch 9:17 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

2Ch 9:18 There were six steps up to it, and a foot-rest of gold fixed to it, and arms on the two sides of the seat, with two lions at the side of the arms.

2Ch 9:19 And twelve lions were placed on one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.

2Ch 9:20 All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.

2Ch 9:21 For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

2Ch 9:22 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

2Ch 9:23 And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.

2Ch 9:24 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.

2Ch 9:25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

2Ch 9:26 And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.

2Ch 9:27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

2Ch 9:28 They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.

2Ch 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not recorded in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh, and in the visions of Iddo the seer about Jeroboam, the son of Nebat?

2Ch 9:30 Solomon was king over Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.

2Ch 9:31 And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.

2Ch 10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

2Ch 10:2 And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.

2Ch 10:3 And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

2Ch 10:4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

2Ch 10:5 And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

2Ch 10:6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

2Ch 10:7 And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

2Ch 10:8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.

2Ch 10:9 And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

2Ch 10:10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

2Ch 10:11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

2Ch 10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

2Ch 10:13 And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

2Ch 10:14 But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

2Ch 10:15 So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

2Ch 10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

2Ch 10:17 But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

2Ch 10:18 Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

2Ch 10:19 So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

2Ch 11:1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

2Ch 11:2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

2Ch 11:3 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

2Ch 11:4 The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.

2Ch 11:5 Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

2Ch 11:6 He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

2Ch 11:7 And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

2Ch 11:8 And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph

2Ch 11:9 And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah

2Ch 11:10 And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

2Ch 11:11 And he made the walled towns strong, and he put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

2Ch 11:12 And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

2Ch 11:13 And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

2Ch 11:14 For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

2Ch 11:15 And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

2Ch 11:16 And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 11:17 So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

2Ch 11:18 And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;

2Ch 11:19 And she had sons by him, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

2Ch 11:20 And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.

2Ch 11:21 Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

2Ch 11:22 Rehoboam made Abijah, the son of Maacah, chief and ruler among his brothers, for it was his purpose to make him king.

2Ch 11:23 And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

2Ch 12:1 Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

2Ch 12:2 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

2Ch 12:3 With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.

2Ch 12:4 And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

2Ch 12:5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

2Ch 12:6 Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.

2Ch 12:7 And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2Ch 12:8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

2Ch 12:9 So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

2Ch 12:10 And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

2Ch 12:11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

2Ch 12:12 And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

2Ch 12:13 So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

2Ch 12:14 And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

2Ch 12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

2Ch 12:16 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

2Ch 13:1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

2Ch 13:2 He was king in Jerusalem for three years; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2Ch 13:3 And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.

2Ch 13:4 And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:

2Ch 13:5 Is it not clear to you that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the rule over Israel to David and to his sons for ever, by an agreement made with salt?

2Ch 13:6 But Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David, took up arms against his lord.

2Ch 13:7 And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.

2Ch 13:8 And now it is your purpose to put yourselves against the authority which the Lord has put into the hands of the sons of David, and you are a very great number, and you have with you the gold oxen which Jeroboam made to be your gods.

2Ch 13:9 And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

2Ch 13:10 But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;

2Ch 13:11 By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.

2Ch 13:12 And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

2Ch 13:13 But Jeroboam had put some of his men to make a surprise attack on them from the back, so some were facing Judah and others were stationed secretly at their back.

2Ch 13:14 And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

2Ch 13:15 And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2Ch 13:16 And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.

2Ch 13:17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

2Ch 13:18 So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 13:19 And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

2Ch 13:20 And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.

2Ch 13:21 But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

2Ch 13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are recorded in the account of the prophet Iddo.

2Ch 14:1 So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.

2Ch 14:2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

2Ch 14:3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

2Ch 14:4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.

2Ch 14:5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

2Ch 14:6 He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

2Ch 14:7 He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

2Ch 14:8 And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

2Ch 14:9 And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

2Ch 14:10 And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.

2Ch 14:11 And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

2Ch 14:12 So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

2Ch 14:13 And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.

2Ch 14:14 And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

2Ch 14:15 And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

2Ch 15:1 And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;

2Ch 15:2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

2Ch 15:3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

2Ch 15:4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

2Ch 15:5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

2Ch 15:6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

2Ch 15:7 But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

2Ch 15:8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

2Ch 15:9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

2Ch 15:10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

2Ch 15:11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2Ch 15:12 And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

2Ch 15:13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.

2Ch 15:14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

2Ch 15:15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

2Ch 15:16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

2Ch 15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

2Ch 15:18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

2Ch 15:19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.

2Ch 16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

2Ch 16:2 Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

2Ch 16:3 Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

2Ch 16:4 And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.

2Ch 16:5 Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.

2Ch 16:6 Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.

2Ch 16:7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

2Ch 16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands.

2Ch 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

2Ch 16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

2Ch 16:11 Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2Ch 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

2Ch 16:13 So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.

2Ch 16:14 And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

2Ch 17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

2Ch 17:2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

2Ch 17:3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

2Ch 17:4 But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

2Ch 17:5 So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

2Ch 17:6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

2Ch 17:7 In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;

2Ch 17:8 And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.

2Ch 17:9 And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.

2Ch 17:10 And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

2Ch 17:11 And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

2Ch 17:12 Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.

2Ch 17:13 He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.

2Ch 17:14 This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;

2Ch 17:15 Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;

2Ch 17:16 After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;

2Ch 17:17 And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

2Ch 17:18 And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

2Ch 17:19 These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.

2Ch 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

2Ch 18:2 And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.

2Ch 18:3 For Ahab, king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he said, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war.

2Ch 18:4 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

2Ch 18:5 So the king of Israel got together all the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for God will give it into the hands of the king.

2Ch 18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?

2Ch 18:7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

2Ch 18:8 Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with Micaiah, the son of Imla.

2Ch 18:9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.

2Ch 18:10 And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself iron horns and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.

2Ch 18:11 And all the prophets said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well for you, for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

2Ch 18:12 Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs, and say good things.

2Ch 18:13 And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.

2Ch 18:14 When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and they will be given up into your hands.

2Ch 18:15 And the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?

2Ch 18:16 Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.

2Ch 18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good to me, but of evil?

2Ch 18:18 Then he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, and all the army of heaven in their places, at his right hand and at his left.

2Ch 18:19 And the Lord said, How may Ahab, king of Israel, be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.

2Ch 18:20 Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick. And the Lord said to him, How?

2Ch 18:21 And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

2Ch 18:22 And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of these prophets of yours; and the Lord has said evil against you.

2Ch 18:23 Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of his face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?

2Ch 18:24 And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.

2Ch 18:25 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;

2Ch 18:26 And say, By the king's order this man is to be put in prison, and given prison food till I come back in peace.

2Ch 18:27 And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.

2Ch 18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.

2Ch 18:29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress, and they went to the fight.

2Ch 18:30 Now the king of Aram had given orders to the captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.

2Ch 18:31 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, It is the king of Israel. And turning about, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry, and the Lord came to his help, and God sent them away from him.

2Ch 18:32 Now when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

2Ch 18:33 And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.

2Ch 18:34 But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king of Israel was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans till the evening; and by sundown he was dead.

2Ch 19:1 And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went back to his house in Jerusalem in peace.

2Ch 19:2 And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

2Ch 19:3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

2Ch 19:4 And Jehoshaphat was living in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, guiding them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 19:5 And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

2Ch 19:6 And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

2Ch 19:7 So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

2Ch 19:8 Then in Jerusalem he gave authority to certain of the Levites and the priests and the heads of families of Israel to give decisions for the Lord, and in the causes of those living in Jerusalem.

2Ch 19:9 And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.

2Ch 19:10 And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.

2Ch 19:11 And now, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all questions to do with the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the head of the family of Judah, in everything to do with the king's business; and the Levites will be overseers for you. Be strong to do the work; and may the Lord be with the upright.

2Ch 20:1 Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.

2Ch 20:2 And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from Edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar (which is En-gedi).

2Ch 20:3 Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

2Ch 20:4 And Judah came together to make prayer for help from the Lord; from every town of Judah they came to give worship to the Lord.

2Ch 20:5 And Jehoshaphat took his place in the meeting of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord in front of the new open space,

2Ch 20:6 And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.

2Ch 20:7 Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?

2Ch 20:8 And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

2Ch 20:9 If evil comes on us, the sword, or punishment, or disease, or need of food, we will come to this house and to you, (for your name is in this house,) crying to you in our trouble, and you will give us salvation in answer to our cry.

2Ch 20:10 And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

2Ch 20:11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

2Ch 20:12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

2Ch 20:13 And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

2Ch 20:14 Then, before all the meeting, the spirit of the Lord came on Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite and one of the family of Asaph;

2Ch 20:15 And he said, Give ear, O Judah, and you people of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat: the Lord says to you, Have no fear and do not be troubled on account of this great army; for the fight is not yours but God's.

2Ch 20:16 Go down against them tomorrow: see, they are coming up by the slope of Ziz; at the end of the valley, before the waste land of Jeruel, you will come face to face with them.

2Ch 20:17 There will be no need for you to take up arms in this fight; put yourselves in position, and keep where you are, and you will see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: have no fear and do not be troubled: go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.

2Ch 20:18 Then Jehoshaphat went down with his face to the earth, and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem gave worship to the Lord, falling down before him.

2Ch 20:19 And the Levites, the children of the Kohathites and the Korahites, got to their feet and gave praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, with a loud voice.

2Ch 20:20 And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.

2Ch 20:21 And after discussion with the people, he put in their places those who were to make melody to the Lord, praising him in holy robes, while they went at the head of the army, and saying, May the Lord be praised, for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

2Ch 20:22 And at the first notes of song and praise the Lord sent a surprise attack against the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were overcome.

2Ch 20:23 And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

2Ch 20:24 And Judah came to the watchtower of the waste land, and looking in the direction of the army, they saw only dead bodies stretched on the earth; no living man was to be seen.

2Ch 20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.

2Ch 20:26 On the fourth day they all came together in the Valley of Blessing, and there they gave blessing to the Lord; for which cause that place has been named the Valley of Blessing to this day.

2Ch 20:27 Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem went back, with Jehoshaphat at their head, coming back to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them glad over their haters.

2Ch 20:28 So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.

2Ch 20:29 And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the lands, when they had news of how the Lord made war on those who came against Israel.

2Ch 20:30 So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for the Lord gave him rest on every side.

2Ch 20:31 And Jehoshaphat was king over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for twenty-five years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

2Ch 20:32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

2Ch 20:33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

2Ch 20:34 Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, they are recorded in the words of Jehu, the son of Hanani, which were put in the book of the kings of Israel.

2Ch 20:35 After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:

2Ch 20:36 Together they made ships to go to Tarshish, building them in Ezion-geber.

2Ch 20:37 Then the word of Eliezer the prophet, the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, came against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have let yourself be joined with Ahaziah, the Lord has sent destruction on your works. And the ships were broken and were not able to go to Tarshish.

2Ch 21:1 And Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David. And Jehoram his son became king in his place.

2Ch 21:2 And he had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.

2Ch 21:3 And their father gave them much silver and gold and things of great value, as well as walled towns in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the oldest.

2Ch 21:4 Now when Jehoram had taken his place over his father's kingdom, and had made his position safe, he put all his brothers to death with the sword, as well as some of the princes of Israel.

2Ch 21:5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

2Ch 21:6 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2Ch 21:7 But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on the family of David, because of the agreement he had made with David, when he said he would give to him and to his sons a light for ever.

2Ch 21:8 In his time Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

2Ch 21:9 Then Jehoram went over with his captains and all his war-carriages ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him ... on the captains of the war-carriages.

2Ch 21:10 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, to this day: and at the same time Libnah made itself free from his rule; because he was turned away from the Lord, the God of his fathers.

2Ch 21:11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

2Ch 21:12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

2Ch 21:13 But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

2Ch 21:14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

2Ch 21:15 And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

2Ch 21:16 Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;

2Ch 21:17 And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

2Ch 21:18 And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.

2Ch 21:19 And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.

2Ch 21:20 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

2Ch 22:1 And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

2Ch 22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

2Ch 22:3 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

2Ch 22:4 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

2Ch 22:5 Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

2Ch 22:6 And he went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which they had given him at Ramah when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to see Jehoram, the son of Ahab, because he was ill.

2Ch 22:7 Now by the purpose of God, Ahaziah's journey to see Jehoram was the cause of his downfall: for when he came there, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu, the son of Nimshi, who had been marked out by the Lord for the destruction of the family of Ahab.

2Ch 22:8 Now when Jehu was effecting the punishment of the family of Ahab, he came to the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, the servants of Ahaziah, and put them to death.

2Ch 22:9 And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

2Ch 22:10 Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom of Judah put to death.

2Ch 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him and the woman who took care of him in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, kept him safe from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.

2Ch 22:12 And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.

2Ch 23:1 In the seventh year, Jehoiada made himself strong, and made an agreement with the captains of hundreds, Azariah, the son of Jeroham, Ishmael, the son of Jehohanan, Azariah, the son of Obed, Maaseiah, the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat, the son of Zichri.

2Ch 23:2 And they went through Judah, getting together the Levites and the heads of families in Israel from all the towns of Judah, and they came to Jerusalem.

2Ch 23:3 And all the people made an agreement with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Truly, the king's son will be king, as the Lord has said about the sons of David.

2Ch 23:4 This is what you are to do: let a third of you, of the priests and Levites, who come in on the Sabbath, keep the doors;

2Ch 23:5 And a third are to be stationed at the king's house; and a third at the doorway of the horses: while all the people are waiting in the open spaces round the house of the Lord.

2Ch 23:6 But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

2Ch 23:7 And the Levites are to make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and any man who comes into the house is to be put to death; you are to keep with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.

2Ch 23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada the priest had given them orders: every one took with him his men, those who were to come in and those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada had not sent away the divisions.

2Ch 23:9 Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's and which were kept in the house of God.

2Ch 23:10 And he put all the people in position, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, by the altar and the house and all round the king.

2Ch 23:11 Then they made the king's son come out, and they put the crown on his head and gave him the arm-bands and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons put the holy oil on him and said, Long life to the king.

2Ch 23:12 Now Athaliah, hearing the noise of the people running and praising the king, came to the people in the house of the Lord:

2Ch 23:13 And looking, she saw the king in his place by the pillar at the doorway, and the captains and the horns by his side; and all the people of the land were giving signs of joy and sounding the horns; and the makers of melody were playing on instruments of music, taking the chief part in the song of praise. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, said, Broken faith, broken faith!

2Ch 23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to the captains of hundreds who had authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.

2Ch 23:15 So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.

2Ch 23:16 And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

2Ch 23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.

2Ch 23:18 And Jehoiada put the work and the care of the house of the Lord into the hands of the priests and the Levites, who had been grouped in divisions by David to make burned offerings to the Lord, as it is recorded in the law of Moses, with joy and song as David had said.

2Ch 23:19 And he put door-keepers at the doors of the Lord's house, to see that no one who was unclean in any way might come in.

2Ch 23:20 Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom.

2Ch 23:21 So all the people of the land were glad and the town was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death with the sword.

2Ch 24:1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

2Ch 24:2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

2Ch 24:3 And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

2Ch 24:4 Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;

2Ch 24:5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.

2Ch 24:6 Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?

2Ch 24:7 For the house of the Lord had been broken up by Athaliah, that evil woman, and her sons; and all its holy things they had given to the Baals.

2Ch 24:8 So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.

2Ch 24:9 And an order was sent out through all Judah and Jerusalem that payment was to be made to the Lord of the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had put on Israel in the waste land.

2Ch 24:10 And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.

2Ch 24:11 So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.

2Ch 24:12 Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.

2Ch 24:13 So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

2Ch 24:14 And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.

2Ch 24:15 But Jehoiada became old and full of days, and he came to his end; he was a hundred and thirty years old at the time of his death.

2Ch 24:16 And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.

2Ch 24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the chiefs of Judah came and went down on their faces before the king. Then the king gave ear to them.

2Ch 24:18 And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

2Ch 24:19 And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear.

2Ch 24:20 Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up.

2Ch 24:21 But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.

2Ch 24:22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

2Ch 24:23 Now in the spring, the army of the Aramaeans came up against him; they came against Judah and Jerusalem, putting to death all the great men of the people and sending all the goods they took from them to the king of Damascus.

2Ch 24:24 For though the army of Aram was only a small one, the Lord gave a very great army into their hands, because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they put into effect the punishment of Joash.

2Ch 24:25 And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

2Ch 24:26 Those who made designs against him were Zabad, the son of Shimeath, an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, the son of Shimrith, a Moabite woman.

2Ch 24:27 Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

2Ch 25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2Ch 25:2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

2Ch 25:3 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.

2Ch 25:4 But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

2Ch 25:5 Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.

2Ch 25:6 And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.

2Ch 25:7 But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, that is, the children of Ephraim.

2Ch 25:8 But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.

2Ch 25:9 Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this.

2Ch 25:10 So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.

2Ch 25:11 Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;

2Ch 25:12 And ten thousand more the children of Israel took living, and made them go up to the top of the rock, pushing them down from the top of the rock so that their bodies were broken by the fall.

2Ch 25:13 But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.

2Ch 25:14 Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.

2Ch 25:15 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?

2Ch 25:16 But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.

2Ch 25:17 Then Amaziah, king of Judah, acting on the suggestion of his servants, sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.

2Ch 25:18 And Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

2Ch 25:19 You say, See, I have overcome Edom; and your heart is lifted up with pride: now keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

2Ch 25:20 But Amaziah gave no attention; and this was the purpose of God, so that he might give them up into the hands of Joash, because they had gone after the gods of Edom.

2Ch 25:21 And so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.

2Ch 25:22 And Judah was overcome before Israel, and they went in flight, every man to his tent.

2Ch 25:23 And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.

2Ch 25:24 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord, under the care of Obed-edom, and all the wealth from the king's house, as well as those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.

2Ch 25:25 Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

2Ch 25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

2Ch 25:27 Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.

2Ch 25:28 And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.

2Ch 26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

2Ch 26:2 He was the builder of Eloth, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.

2Ch 26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.

2Ch 26:4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

2Ch 26:5 He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.

2Ch 26:6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

2Ch 26:7 And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.

2Ch 26:8 The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power.

2Ch 26:9 Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.

2Ch 26:10 And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

2Ch 26:11 In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

2Ch 26:12 The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.

2Ch 26:13 And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

2Ch 26:14 And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.

2Ch 26:15 And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

2Ch 26:16 But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.

2Ch 26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;

2Ch 26:18 And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.

2Ch 26:19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

2Ch 26:20 And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.

2Ch 26:21 So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.

2Ch 26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, were recorded by Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

2Ch 26:23 So Uzziah went to rest with his fathers; and they put his body into the earth in the field used for the resting-place of the kings, for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son became king in his place.

2Ch 27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2Ch 27:2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

2Ch 27:3 He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

2Ch 27:4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

2Ch 27:5 He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

2Ch 27:6 So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

2Ch 27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2Ch 27:8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

2Ch 27:9 And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

2Ch 28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:

2Ch 28:2 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

2Ch 28:3 More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

2Ch 28:4 And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

2Ch 28:5 So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

2Ch 28:6 For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 28:7 And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.

2Ch 28:8 And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria.

2Ch 28:9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

2Ch 28:10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

2Ch 28:11 And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

2Ch 28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah, the son of Johanan, Berechiah, the son of Meshillemoth Jehizkiah, the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, put themselves against those who had come from the war,

2Ch 28:13 And said to them, You are not to let these prisoners come here; for what you are designing to do will be a cause of sin against the Lord to us, making even greater our sin and our wrongdoing, which now are great enough, and his wrath is burning against Israel.

2Ch 28:14 So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.

2Ch 28:15 And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

2Ch 28:16 At that time King Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria.

2Ch 28:17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

2Ch 28:18 And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

2Ch 28:19 For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord.

2Ch 28:20 Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.

2Ch 28:21 For Ahaz took a part of the wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the house of the king and of the great men, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it was no help to him.

2Ch 28:22 And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

2Ch 28:23 For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.

2Ch 28:24 And Ahaz got together the vessels of the house of God, cutting up all the vessels of the house of God, and shutting the doors of the Lord's house; and he made altars in every part of Jerusalem.

2Ch 28:25 And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

2Ch 28:26 Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2Ch 28:27 And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in Jerusalem; but they did not put him in the resting-place of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

2Ch 29:1 Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he was king in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2Ch 29:2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.

2Ch 29:3 In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.

2Ch 29:4 And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,

2Ch 29:5 And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.

2Ch 29:6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

2Ch 29:7 The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.

2Ch 29:8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

2Ch 29:9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

2Ch 29:10 Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

2Ch 29:11 My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.

2Ch 29:12 Then the Levites took their places; Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel, the son of Azariah, among the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish, the son of Abdi, and Azariah, the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah, the son of Zimmah, and Eden, the son of Joah;

2Ch 29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

2Ch 29:14 And of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

2Ch 29:15 And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

2Ch 29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.

2Ch 29:17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

2Ch 29:18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have made all the house of the Lord clean, as well as the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the table for the holy bread, with all its vessels.

2Ch 29:19 And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.

2Ch 29:20 Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord.

2Ch 29:21 And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord.

2Ch 29:22 So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar.

2Ch 29:23 Then they took the he-goats for the sin-offering, placing them before the king and the meeting of the people, and they put their hands on them:

2Ch 29:24 And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.

2Ch 29:25 Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.

2Ch 29:26 So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.

2Ch 29:27 And Hezekiah gave the word for the burned offering to be offered on the altar. And when the burned offering was started, then the song of the Lord was started, with the blowing of horns and with all the instruments of David, king of Israel.

2Ch 29:28 And all the people gave worship, to the sound of songs and the blowing of horns; and this went on till the burned offering was ended.

2Ch 29:29 And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads.

2Ch 29:30 Then King Hezekiah and the captains gave orders to the Levites to give praise to God in the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they made songs of praise with joy, and with bent heads gave worship.

2Ch 29:31 Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings.

2Ch 29:32 The number of burned offerings which the people took in was seventy oxen, a hundred male sheep, and two hundred lambs: all these were for burned offerings to the Lord.

2Ch 29:33 And the holy things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

2Ch 29:34 There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.

2Ch 29:35 And there was a great amount of burned offerings, with the fat of the peace-offerings and the drink offerings for every burned offering. So the work of the Lord's house was put in order.

2Ch 29:36 And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.

2Ch 30:1 Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.

2Ch 30:2 For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.

2Ch 30:3 It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people.

2Ch 30:5 So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law.

2Ch 30:6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

2Ch 30:7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

2Ch 30:8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

2Ch 30:9 For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

2Ch 30:10 So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

2Ch 30:11 However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:12 And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

2Ch 30:13 So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.

2Ch 30:14 And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.

2Ch 30:15 Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.

2Ch 30:16 And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites.

2Ch 30:17 For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.

2Ch 30:18 For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

2Ch 30:19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

2Ch 30:20 And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well.

2Ch 30:21 So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.

2Ch 30:22 And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 30:23 And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy.

2Ch 30:24 For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.

2Ch 30:25 And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy.

2Ch 30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

2Ch 30:27 Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.

2Ch 31:1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

2Ch 31:2 Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.

2Ch 31:3 And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the Sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord.

2Ch 31:4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

2Ch 31:5 And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

2Ch 31:6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.

2Ch 31:7 The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete.

2Ch 31:8 And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel.

2Ch 31:9 Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods.

2Ch 31:10 And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.

2Ch 31:11 Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.

2Ch 31:12 And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.

2Ch 31:13 And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God.

2Ch 31:14 And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.

2Ch 31:15 And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great:

2Ch 31:16 As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions.

2Ch 31:17 And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions;

2Ch 31:18 And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given.

2Ch 31:19 And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites.

2Ch 31:20 This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

2Ch 31:21 And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

2Ch 32:1 Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.

2Ch 32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come for the purpose of fighting against Jerusalem,

2Ch 32:3 He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.

2Ch 32:4 So they got together a great number of people, and had all the water-springs and the stream flowing through the land stopped up, saying, Why let the kings of Assyria come and have much water?

2Ch 32:5 Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

2Ch 32:6 And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,

2Ch 32:7 Be strong and take heart; have no fear, and do not be troubled on account of the king of Assyria and all the great army with him: for there is a greater with us.

2Ch 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.

2Ch 32:9 After this, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem (at that time he was stationed with all his army in front of Lachish), to say to Hezekiah and all the men of Judah in Jerusalem,

2Ch 32:10 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says, In what are you placing your hope, waiting here in the walled town of Jerusalem?

2Ch 32:11 Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?

2Ch 32:12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

2Ch 32:13 Have you no knowledge of what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of every land? were the gods of the nations of those lands able to keep their land from falling into my hands?

2Ch 32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations, which my fathers put to destruction, who was able to keep his people safe from my hands? and is it possible that your God will keep you safe from my hands?

2Ch 32:15 So do not be tricked by Hezekiah or let him get you to do this, and do not put any faith in what he says: for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to keep his people safe from my hands, or the hands of my fathers: how much less will your God keep you safe from my hands!

2Ch 32:16 And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.

2Ch 32:17 And he sent letters, in addition, to put shame on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to say evil against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not been able to keep their people safe from my hands, no more will the God of Hezekiah keep his people safe from my hands.

2Ch 32:18 These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;

2Ch 32:19 Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.

2Ch 32:20 And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, made prayer because of this, crying out to heaven.

2Ch 32:21 And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.

2Ch 32:22 So the Lord gave Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem salvation from the power of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, and from all others, giving them rest on every side.

2Ch 32:23 And great numbers came to Jerusalem with offerings for the Lord, and things of great price for Hezekiah, king of Judah: so that he was honoured among all nations from that time.

2Ch 32:24 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death; and he made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord in answer gave him a sign.

2Ch 32:25 But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

2Ch 32:26 But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.

2Ch 32:27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.

2Ch 32:28 And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks.

2Ch 32:29 And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

2Ch 32:30 It was Hezekiah who had the higher spring of the water of Gihon stopped, and the water taken down on the west side of the town of David. In everything he undertook, Hezekiah did well.

2Ch 32:31 However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.

2Ch 32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and the good he did, are recorded in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2Ch 32:33 So Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the higher part of the resting-places of the sons of David: and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem gave him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place.

2Ch 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2Ch 33:2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

2Ch 33:3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

2Ch 33:4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

2Ch 33:5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

2Ch 33:6 More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

2Ch 33:7 And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

2Ch 33:8 And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.

2Ch 33:9 And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

2Ch 33:10 And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

2Ch 33:11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

2Ch 33:12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

2Ch 33:13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

2Ch 33:14 After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

2Ch 33:15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

2Ch 33:16 And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2Ch 33:17 However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

2Ch 33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

2Ch 33:19 And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

2Ch 33:20 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

2Ch 33:21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.

2Ch 33:22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

2Ch 33:23 He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

2Ch 33:24 And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

2Ch 33:25 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

2Ch 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

2Ch 34:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

2Ch 34:3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

2Ch 34:4 He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

2Ch 34:5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

2Ch 34:6 And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

2Ch 34:7 He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

2Ch 34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God.

2Ch 34:9 And they came to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and gave him all the money which had been taken into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had got from Manasseh and Ephraim and those of Israel who had not been taken away as prisoners, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the people of Jerusalem.

2Ch 34:10 And they gave it to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, and the overseers gave it to the workmen working in the house, for building it up and making good what was damaged;

2Ch 34:11 Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

2Ch 34:12 And the men did the work well; and those who had authority over them were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, who were to be responsible for seeing that the work was done; and others of the Levites, who were expert with instruments of music,

2Ch 34:13 Had authority over the transport workers, giving directions to all who were doing any sort of work; and among the Levites there were scribes and overseers and door-keepers.

2Ch 34:14 Now when they were taking out the money which had come into the Lord's house, Hilkiah the priest came across the book of the law of the Lord, which he had given by the mouth of Moses.

2Ch 34:15 Then Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.

2Ch 34:16 And Shaphan took the book to the king; and he gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants are doing all they have been given to do;

2Ch 34:17 They have taken out all the money which was in the Lord's house and have given it to the overseers and to the workmen.

2Ch 34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he made a start at reading some of it to the king.

2Ch 34:19 And the king, hearing the words of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief.

2Ch 34:20 And he gave orders to Hilkiah and to Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Abdon, the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe and Asaiah, the king's servant, saying,

2Ch 34:21 Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.

2Ch 34:22 So Hilkiah, and those whom the king sent, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the robes (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town); and they had talk with her about this thing.

2Ch 34:23 And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Say to the man who sent you to me,

2Ch 34:24 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah;

2Ch 34:25 Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

2Ch 34:26 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,

2Ch 34:27 And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.

2Ch 34:28 See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.

2Ch 34:29 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2Ch 34:30 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

2Ch 34:31 Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.

2Ch 34:32 And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 34:33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 35:1 And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

2Ch 35:2 And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.

2Ch 35:3 And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,

2Ch 35:4 And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;

2Ch 35:5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.

2Ch 35:6 And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.

2Ch 35:7 And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

2Ch 35:8 And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.

2Ch 35:9 And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

2Ch 35:10 So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

2Ch 35:11 And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

2Ch 35:12 And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.

2Ch 35:13 And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.

2Ch 35:14 And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

2Ch 35:15 And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.

2Ch 35:16 So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

2Ch 35:17 And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

2Ch 35:18 No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

2Ch 35:19 In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.

2Ch 35:20 After all this, and after Josiah had put the house in order, Neco, king of Egypt, went up to make war at Carchemish by the river Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

2Ch 35:21 But he sent representatives to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against those with whom I am at war; and God has given me orders to go forward quickly: keep out of God's way, for he is with me, or he will send destruction on you.

2Ch 35:22 However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2Ch 35:23 And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.

2Ch 35:24 So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

2Ch 35:25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.

2Ch 35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,

2Ch 35:27 And all his acts, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2Ch 36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

2Ch 36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

2Ch 36:3 Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2Ch 36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

2Ch 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

2Ch 36:6 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

2Ch 36:7 And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.

2Ch 36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the disgusting things he did, and all there is to be said against him, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

2Ch 36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2Ch 36:10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

2Ch 36:11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

2Ch 36:12 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

2Ch 36:13 And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

2Ch 36:14 And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

2Ch 36:15 And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;

2Ch 36:16 But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

2Ch 36:17 So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

2Ch 36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.

2Ch 36:19 And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

2Ch 36:20 And all who had not come to death by the sword he took away prisoners to Babylon; and they became servants to him and to his sons till the kingdom of Persia came to power:

2Ch 36:21 So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

2Ch 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,

2Ch 36:23 Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him and let him go up.

Ezr 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,

Ezr 1:2 These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezr 1:3 Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

Ezr 1:4 And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.

Ezr 1:5 Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.

Ezr 1:6 And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.

Ezr 1:7 And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;

Ezr 1:8 Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah.

Ezr 1:9 And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives,

Ezr 1:10 Thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins, and a thousand other vessels.

Ezr 1:11 There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezr 2:1 Now these are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and taken away to Babylon, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his town;

Ezr 2:2 Who went with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah, The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Ezr 2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.

Ezr 2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

Ezr 2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.

Ezr 2:6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred and twelve.

Ezr 2:7 The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.

Ezr 2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five.

Ezr 2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

Ezr 2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.

Ezr 2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.

Ezr 2:12 The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred and twenty-two.

Ezr 2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six.

Ezr 2:14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand and fifty-six.

Ezr 2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four.

Ezr 2:16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

Ezr 2:17 The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three.

Ezr 2:18 The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.

Ezr 2:19 The children of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three.

Ezr 2:20 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

Ezr 2:21 The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred and twenty-three.

Ezr 2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

Ezr 2:23 The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.

Ezr 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

Ezr 2:25 The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

Ezr 2:26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

Ezr 2:27 The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.

Ezr 2:28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.

Ezr 2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

Ezr 2:30 The children of Magbish, a hundred and fifty-six.

Ezr 2:31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.

Ezr 2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

Ezr 2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five.

Ezr 2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

Ezr 2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand, six hundred and thirty.

Ezr 2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

Ezr 2:37 The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.

Ezr 2:38 The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.

Ezr 2:39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

Ezr 2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

Ezr 2:41 The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight

Ezr 2:42 The children of the door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-nine.

Ezr 2:43 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Ezr 2:44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

Ezr 2:45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

Ezr 2:46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

Ezr 2:47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

Ezr 2:48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

Ezr 2:49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

Ezr 2:50 The children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

Ezr 2:51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

Ezr 2:52 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Ezr 2:53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

Ezr 2:54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Ezr 2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

Ezr 2:56 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

Ezr 2:57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

Ezr 2:58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.

Ezr 2:59 And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;

Ezr 2:60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.

Ezr 2:61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.

Ezr 2:62 They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

Ezr 2:63 And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by Urim and Thummim.

Ezr 2:64 The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty,

Ezr 2:65 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.

Ezr 2:66 They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts,

Ezr 2:67 Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.

Ezr 2:68 And some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, gave freely of their wealth for the building up of the house of God in its place:

Ezr 2:69 Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.

Ezr 2:70 So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even all Israel in their towns.

Ezr 3:1 And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

Ezr 3:2 Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God.

Ezr 3:3 They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.

Ezr 3:4 And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.

Ezr 3:5 And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.

Ezr 3:6 From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.

Ezr 3:7 And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

Ezr 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

Ezr 3:9 Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites.

Ezr 3:10 And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.

Ezr 3:11 And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place.

Ezr 3:12 But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

Ezr 3:13 So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

Ezr 4:1 Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

Ezr 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.

Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.

Ezr 4:4 Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

Ezr 4:5 And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

Ezr 4:6 And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezr 4:7 And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.

Ezr 4:8 Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, sent a letter against Jerusalem, to Artaxerxes the king;

Ezr 4:9 The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

Ezr 4:10 And the rest of the nations which the great and noble Osnappar took over and put in Samaria and the rest of the country over the river:

Ezr 4:11 This is a copy of the letter which they sent to Artaxerxes the king: Your servants living across the river send these words:

Ezr 4:12 We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.

Ezr 4:13 The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

Ezr 4:14 Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

Ezr 4:15 So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.

Ezr 4:16 We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.

Ezr 4:17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, Peace to you:

Ezr 4:18 And now the sense of the letter which you sent to us has been made clear to me,

Ezr 4:19 And I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.

Ezr 4:20 Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.

Ezr 4:21 Give an order now, that these men are to do nothing more, and that the building of the town is to be stopped, till I give an order.

Ezr 4:22 Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage.

Ezr 4:23 Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and had them stopped by force.

Ezr 4:24 So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

Ezr 5:1 Now the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, were preaching to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel.

Ezr 5:2 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, got up and made a start at building the house of God at Jerusalem: and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

Ezr 5:3 At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?

Ezr 5:4 Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?

Ezr 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.

Ezr 5:6 This is a copy of the letter which Tattenai, the ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and his friends the Apharsachites, living across the river, sent to Darius the king:

Ezr 5:7 They sent him a letter saying, To Darius the king, all peace:

Ezr 5:8 This is to give the king word that we went into the land of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is made of great stones, and has its walls supported with wood, and the work is going on with industry, and they are doing it well.

Ezr 5:9 Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

Ezr 5:10 And we made request for their names, so that we might send you word, and give you the names of the men at the head of them.

Ezr 5:11 And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

Ezr 5:12 But when the God of heaven was moved to wrath by our fathers, he gave them up into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the Chaldaean, who sent destruction on this house and took the people away into Babylon.

Ezr 5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God;

Ezr 5:14 And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple which was in Jerusalem, and put into the house of his god in Babylon, these Cyrus the king took from the house of his god in Babylon, and gave to one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made ruler;

Ezr 5:15 And he said to him, Go, take these vessels, and put them in the Temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be put up again in its place.

Ezr 5:16 Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.

Ezr 5:17 So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.

Ezr 6:1 Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.

Ezr 6:2 And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:

Ezr 6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;

Ezr 6:4 With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

Ezr 6:5 And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God.

Ezr 6:6 So now, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and your people the Apharsachites across the river, keep far from that place:

Ezr 6:7 Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.

Ezr 6:8 Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

Ezr 6:9 And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:

Ezr 6:10 So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.

Ezr 6:11 And I have given orders that if anyone makes any change in this word, one of the supports is to be pulled out of his house, and he is to be lifted up and fixed to it; and his house is to be made waste for this;

Ezr 6:12 And may the God who has made it a resting-place for his name send destruction on all kings and peoples whose hands are outstretched to make any change in this or to do damage to this house of God at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given this order, let it be done with all care.

Ezr 6:13 Then Tattenai, the ruler across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and their people, because of the order given by King Darius, did as he had said with all care.

Ezr 6:14 And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.

Ezr 6:15 And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

Ezr 6:16 And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.

Ezr 6:17 And they gave as offerings at the opening of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, being the number of the tribes of Israel.

Ezr 6:18 And they put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem; as it is recorded in the book of Moses.

Ezr 6:19 And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Ezr 6:20 For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

Ezr 6:21 And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

Ezr 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them full of joy, by turning the heart of the king of Assyria to them to give them help in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Ezr 7:1 Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

Ezr 7:2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

Ezr 7:3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

Ezr 7:4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

Ezr 7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

Ezr 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

Ezr 7:7 And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezr 7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king's rule.

Ezr 7:9 For, starting his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, he came to Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.

Ezr 7:10 For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.

Ezr 7:11 Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:

Ezr 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven, all peace;

Ezr 7:13 And now it is my order that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and Levites in my kingdom, who are ready and have a desire to go to Jerusalem, are to go with you.

Ezr 7:14 Because you are sent by the king and his seven wise men, to get knowledge about Judah and Jerusalem, as you are ordered by the law of your God which is in your hand;

Ezr 7:15 And to take with you the silver and gold freely offered by the king and his wise men to the God of Israel, whose Temple is in Jerusalem,

Ezr 7:16 As well as all the silver and gold which you get from the land of Babylon, together with the offering of the people and of the priests, freely given for the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem:

Ezr 7:17 So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

Ezr 7:18 And whatever seems right to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do, as may be pleasing to your God.

Ezr 7:19 And the vessels which have been given to you for the uses of the house of your God, you are to give to the God of Jerusalem.

Ezr 7:20 And whatever more is needed for the house of your God, and which you may have to give, take it from the king's store-house.

Ezr 7:21 And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care,

Ezr 7:22 Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.

Ezr 7:23 Whatever is ordered by the God of heaven, let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven; so that there may not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

Ezr 7:24 In addition, we make it clear to you, that it will be against the law to put any tax or payment in goods or forced payment on any of the priests or Levites, the music-makers, door-keepers, Nethinim, or any servants of this house of God.

Ezr 7:25 And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.

Ezr 7:26 And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.

Ezr 7:27 Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

Ezr 7:28 And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Ezr 8:1 Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.

Ezr 8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;

Ezr 8:3 Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.

Ezr 8:4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

Ezr 8:5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

Ezr 8:6 And of the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

Ezr 8:7 And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah; the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

Ezr 8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

Ezr 8:9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

Ezr 8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and sixty males.

Ezr 8:11 And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

Ezr 8:12 And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.

Ezr 8:13 And of the sons of Adonikam, the last, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

Ezr 8:14 And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

Ezr 8:15 And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

Ezr 8:16 Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.

Ezr 8:17 And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.

Ezr 8:18 And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

Ezr 8:19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

Ezr 8:20 And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.

Ezr 8:21 Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

Ezr 8:22 For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.

Ezr 8:23 So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

Ezr 8:24 So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

Ezr 8:25 And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

Ezr 8:26 Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,

Ezr 8:27 And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

Ezr 8:28 And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

Ezr 8:29 Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.

Ezr 8:30 So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

Ezr 8:31 Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was on us, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.

Ezr 8:32 And we came to Jerusalem and were there for three days.

Ezr 8:33 And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;

Ezr 8:34 All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.

Ezr 8:35 And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.

Ezr 8:36 And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gave the people and the house of God the help which was needed.

Ezr 9:1 Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezr 9:2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

Ezr 9:3 And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

Ezr 9:4 Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.

Ezr 9:5 And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

Ezr 9:6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

Ezr 9:7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

Ezr 9:8 And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

Ezr 9:9 For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezr 9:10 And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,

Ezr 9:11 Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

Ezr 9:12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

Ezr 9:13 And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

Ezr 9:14 Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

Ezr 9:15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

Ezr 10:1 Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

Ezr 10:2 And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

Ezr 10:3 Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

Ezr 10:4 Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.

Ezr 10:5 Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.

Ezr 10:6 Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

Ezr 10:7 And they made a public statement through all Judah and Jerusalem, to all those who had come back, that they were to come together to Jerusalem;

Ezr 10:8 And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse, and he himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.

Ezr 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

Ezr 10:10 And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

Ezr 10:11 So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.

Ezr 10:12 Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to do.

Ezr 10:13 But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside, and this is not a thing which may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

Ezr 10:14 So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.

Ezr 10:15 Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, the son of Tikvah, were against this, Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

Ezr 10:16 So those who had come back did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of families, by their fathers' families, all of them by their names, were marked out; and on the first day of the tenth month they took their places to go into the question with care.

Ezr 10:17 And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.

Ezr 10:18 And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.

Ezr 10:19 And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.

Ezr 10:20 And of the sons of Immer, Hanani and Zebadiah.

Ezr 10:21 And of the sons of Harim, Maaseiah and Elijah and Shemaiah and Jehiel and Uzziah.

Ezr 10:22 And of the sons of Pashhur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

Ezr 10:23 And of the Levites, Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Ezr 10:24 And of the music-makers, Eliashib; and of the door-keepers, Shallum and Telem and Uri.

Ezr 10:25 And of Israel, the sons of Parosh, Ramiah and Izziah and Malchijah and Mijamin and Eleazar and Malchijah and Benaiah.

Ezr 10:26 And of the sons of Elam, Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Elijah.

Ezr 10:27 And of the sons of Zattu, Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth and Zabad and Aziza.

Ezr 10:28 And of the sons of Bebai, Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

Ezr 10:29 And of the sons of Bani, Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub and Sheal, Jeremoth.

Ezr 10:30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab, Adna and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel and Binnui and Manasseh.

Ezr 10:31 And of the sons of Harim, Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Ezr 10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.

Ezr 10:33 Of the sons of Hashum, Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

Ezr 10:34 Of the sons of Bani, Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

Ezr 10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

Ezr 10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

Ezr 10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

Ezr 10:38 And Bani and Binnui, Shimei;

Ezr 10:39 And Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah,

Ezr 10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

Ezr 10:41 Azarel and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

Ezr 10:42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

Ezr 10:43 Of the sons of Nebo, Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

Ezr 10:44 All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.

Neh 1:1 The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the king's town,

Neh 1:2 That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,

Neh 1:3 They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

Neh 1:4 Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

Neh 1:5 And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:

Neh 1:6 Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

Neh 1:7 We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

Neh 1:8 Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:

Neh 1:9 But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

Neh 1:10 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have made yours by your great power and by your strong hand.

Neh 1:11 O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)

Neh 2:1 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.

Neh 2:2 And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

Neh 2:3 And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?

Neh 2:4 Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.

Neh 2:5 And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.

Neh 2:6 And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.

Neh 2:7 Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;

Neh 2:8 And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.

Neh 2:9 Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

Neh 2:10 And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.

Neh 2:11 So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

Neh 2:12 And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.

Neh 2:13 And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

Neh 2:14 Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.

Neh 2:15 Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.

Neh 2:16 And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.

Neh 2:17 Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

Neh 2:18 Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

Neh 2:19 But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

Neh 2:20 Then answering them I said, The God of heaven, he will be our help; so we his servants will go on with our building: but you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.

Neh 3:1 Then Eliashib, the chief priest, got up with his brothers the priests, and took in hand the building of the sheep doorway; they made it holy and put its doors in position; as far as the tower of Hammeah they made it holy, even to the tower of Hananel.

Neh 3:2 And by his side the men of Jericho were building. And after them, Zaccur, the son of Imri.

Neh 3:3 The sons of Hassenaah were the builders of the fish doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

Neh 3:4 By their side Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was making good the walls. Then Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel; and by him, Zadok, the son of Baana.

Neh 3:5 Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

Neh 3:6 Joiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, made good the old doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

Neh 3:7 By their side were working Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah from the seat of the ruler across the river.

Neh 3:8 Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.

Neh 3:9 Near them was working Rephaiah, the son of Hur, the ruler of half Jerusalem.

Neh 3:10 By his side was Jedaiah, the son of Harumaph, opposite his house. And by him was Hattush, the son of Hashabneiah.

Neh 3:11 Malchijah, the son of Harim, and Hasshub, the son of Pahath-moab, were working on another part, and the tower of the ovens.

Neh 3:12 Near them was Shallum, the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half Jerusalem, with his daughters.

Neh 3:13 Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley; they put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and a thousand cubits of wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.

Neh 3:14 And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the doorway of the waste, building it up and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods.

Neh 3:15 And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

Neh 3:16 By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family, and the pool which was made and the house of the men of war.

Neh 3:17 Then came the Levites, Rehum, the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division.

Neh 3:18 After him were working their brothers, Bavvai, the son of Henadad, ruler of half the division of Keilah.

Neh 3:19 And by his side was working Ezer, the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, making good another part opposite the way up to the store of arms at the turning of the wall.

Neh 3:20 After him Baruch, the son of Zabbai, was hard at work on another part, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib, the chief priest.

Neh 3:21 After him Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was working on another part, from the door of the house of Eliashib as far as the end of his house.

Neh 3:22 After him were working the priests, the men of the lowland.

Neh 3:23 After them came Benjamin and Hasshub, opposite their house. After them Azariah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, made good the wall by the house where he himself was living.

Neh 3:24 After him Binnui, the son of Henadad, was working on another part, from the house of Azariah as far as the turning of the wall and the angle.

Neh 3:25 Palal, the son of Uzai, made good the wall opposite the angle and the tower which comes out from the higher part of the king's house, by the open space of the watch. After him was Pedaiah, the son of Parosh.

Neh 3:26 (Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)

Neh 3:27 After him the Tekoites were making good another part, opposite the great tower which comes out, and up to the wall of the Ophel.

Neh 3:28 Further on, past the horse doorway, the priests were at work, every one opposite his house.

Neh 3:29 After them Zadok, the son of Immer, was working opposite his house. And after him Shemaiah, the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east door.

Neh 3:30 After him Hananiah, the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, were making good another part. After him Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, made good the wall opposite his room.

Neh 3:31 After him Malchijah, one of the gold-workers to the Nethinim and the traders, made good the wall opposite the doorway of Hammiphkad and as far as the way up to the angle.

Neh 3:32 And between the way up to the angle and the sheep door, the gold-workers and the traders made good the wall.

Neh 4:1 Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

Neh 4:2 And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?

Neh 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.

Neh 4:4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

Neh 4:5 Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

Neh 4:6 So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

Neh 4:7 But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

Neh 4:8 And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

Neh 4:9 But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

Neh 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

Neh 4:11 And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

Neh 4:12 And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

Neh 4:13 So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Neh 4:14 And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them: keep in mind the Lord who is great and greatly to be feared, and take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

Neh 4:15 And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work

Neh 4:16 And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.

Neh 4:17 Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;

Neh 4:18 Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

Neh 4:19 And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall:

Neh 4:20 Wherever you may be when the horn is sounded, come here to us; our God will be fighting for us.

Neh 4:21 So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.

Neh 4:22 And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

Neh 4:23 So not one of us, I or my brothers or my servants or the watchmen who were with me, took off his clothing, everyone went armed to the water.

Neh 5:1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

Neh 5:2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

Neh 5:3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

Neh 5:4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

Neh 5:5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Neh 5:6 And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.

Neh 5:7 And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.

Neh 5:8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Neh 5:9 And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

Neh 5:10 Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.

Neh 5:11 Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

Neh 5:12 Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

Neh 5:13 And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.

Neh 5:14 Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

Neh 5:15 But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Neh 5:16 And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

Neh 5:17 And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.

Neh 5:18 Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

Neh 5:19 Keep in mind, O my God, for my good, all I have done for this people.

Neh 6:1 Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);

Neh 6:2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.

Neh 6:3 And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?

Neh 6:4 And four times they sent to me in this way, and I sent them the same answer.

Neh 6:5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

Neh 6:6 And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;

Neh 6:7 And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.

Neh 6:8 Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

Neh 6:9 For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

Neh 6:10 And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.

Neh 6:11 And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.

Neh 6:12 Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him: he had given this word of a prophet against me himself: and Tobiah and Sanballat had given him money to do so.

Neh 6:13 For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.

Neh 6:14 Keep in mind, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat and what they did, and Noadiah, the woman prophet, and the rest of the prophets whose purpose was to put fear into me.

Neh 6:15 So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

Neh 6:16 And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

Neh 6:17 And further, in those days the chiefs of Judah sent a number of letters to Tobiah, and his letters came to them.

Neh 6:18 For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.

Neh 6:19 And they said much before me of the good he had done, and gave him accounts of my words. And Tobiah sent letters with the purpose of causing me fear.

Neh 7:1 Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,

Neh 7:2 I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.

Neh 7:3 And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.

Neh 7:4 Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.

Neh 7:5 And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:

Neh 7:6 These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;

Neh 7:7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Neh 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.

Neh 7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

Neh 7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.

Neh 7:11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred and eighteen.

Neh 7:12 The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.

Neh 7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.

Neh 7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

Neh 7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.

Neh 7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight.

Neh 7:17 The children of Azgad, two thousand, three hundred and twenty-two.

Neh 7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven.

Neh 7:19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.

Neh 7:20 The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.

Neh 7:21 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

Neh 7:22 The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.

Neh 7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four.

Neh 7:24 The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.

Neh 7:25 The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

Neh 7:26 The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.

Neh 7:27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.

Neh 7:28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.

Neh 7:29 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

Neh 7:30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

Neh 7:31 The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.

Neh 7:32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

Neh 7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

Neh 7:34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.

Neh 7:35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

Neh 7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

Neh 7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.

Neh 7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand, nine hundred and thirty.

Neh 7:39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the family of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

Neh 7:40 The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.

Neh 7:41 The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.

Neh 7:42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

Neh 7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.

Neh 7:44 The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.

Neh 7:45 The door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.

Neh 7:46 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Neh 7:47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

Neh 7:48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

Neh 7:49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

Neh 7:50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

Neh 7:51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah,

Neh 7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,

Neh 7:53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

Neh 7:54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Neh 7:55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

Neh 7:56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Neh 7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

Neh 7:58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

Neh 7:59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.

Neh 7:60 All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

Neh 7:61 All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:

Neh 7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.

Neh 7:63 And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.

Neh 7:64 They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

Neh 7:65 And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.

Neh 7:66 The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty;

Neh 7:67 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.

Neh 7:68 They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts;

Neh 7:69 Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.

Neh 7:70 And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.

Neh 7:71 And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.

Neh 7:72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.

Neh 7:73 So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.

Neh 8:1 And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

Neh 8:2 And Ezra the priest put the law before the meeting of the people, before the men and women and all those who were able to take it in, on the first day of the seventh month.

Neh 8:3 He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.

Neh 8:4 And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.

Neh 8:5 And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:

Neh 8:6 And Ezra gave praise to the Lord, the great God. And all the people in answer said, So be it, so be it; lifting up their hands; and with bent heads they gave worship to the Lord, going down on their faces to the earth.

Neh 8:7 And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.

Neh 8:8 And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.

Neh 8:9 And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

Neh 8:10 Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

Neh 8:11 So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.

Neh 8:12 And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

Neh 8:13 And on the second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law.

Neh 8:14 And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

Neh 8:15 And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.

Neh 8:16 And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

Neh 8:17 All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

Neh 8:18 And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

Neh 9:1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

Neh 9:2 And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.

Neh 9:3 And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.

Neh 9:4 Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God.

Neh 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.

Neh 9:6 You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

Neh 9:7 You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

Neh 9:8 You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

Neh 9:9 And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

Neh 9:10 And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.

Neh 9:11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

Neh 9:12 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

Neh 9:13 And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

Neh 9:14 And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:

Neh 9:15 And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

Neh 9:16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

Neh 9:17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Neh 9:18 Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

Neh 9:19 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

Neh 9:20 And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.

Neh 9:21 Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

Neh 9:22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

Neh 9:23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

Neh 9:24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

Neh 9:25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

Neh 9:26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

Neh 9:27 And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.

Neh 9:28 But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;

Neh 9:29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

Neh 9:30 Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

Neh 9:31 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.

Neh 9:32 And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

Neh 9:33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

Neh 9:34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

Neh 9:35 For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

Neh 9:36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

Neh 9:37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

Neh 9:38 And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.

Neh 10:1 Now those who put down their names were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

Neh 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

Neh 10:3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

Neh 10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

Neh 10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

Neh 10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

Neh 10:7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

Neh 10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.

Neh 10:9 And the Levites: by name, Jeshua, the son of Azaniah, Binnui, of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,

Neh 10:10 And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

Neh 10:11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

Neh 10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

Neh 10:13 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.

Neh 10:14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

Neh 10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

Neh 10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

Neh 10:17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

Neh 10:18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

Neh 10:19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,

Neh 10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

Neh 10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

Neh 10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

Neh 10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

Neh 10:24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

Neh 10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

Neh 10:26 And Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

Neh 10:27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

Neh 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom;

Neh 10:29 They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

Neh 10:30 And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;

Neh 10:31 And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

Neh 10:32 And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

Neh 10:33 For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Neh 10:34 And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;

Neh 10:35 And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

Neh 10:36 As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:

Neh 10:37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

Neh 10:38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house;

Neh 10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

Neh 11:1 And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

Neh 11:2 And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.

Neh 11:3 Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

Neh 11:4 And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

Neh 11:5 And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.

Neh 11:6 All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.

Neh 11:7 And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.

Neh 11:8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.

Neh 11:9 And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town.

Neh 11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, the son of Joiarib, Jachin,

Neh 11:11 Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,

Neh 11:12 And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

Neh 11:13 And his brothers, heads of families, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

Neh 11:14 And their brothers, men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

Neh 11:15 And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni,

Neh 11:16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside business of the house of God;

Neh 11:17 And Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who had to give the first note of the song of praise in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers, and Abda, the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Neh 11:18 All the Levites in the holy town were two hundred and eighty-four.

Neh 11:19 In addition the door-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers who kept watch at the doors, were a hundred and seventy-two.

Neh 11:20 And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his heritage.

Neh 11:21 But the Nethinim were living in the Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

Neh 11:22 And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the music-makers, who was over the business of the house of God.

Neh 11:23 For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.

Neh 11:24 And Pethahiah, the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, the son of Judah, was the king's servant in everything to do with the people.

Neh 11:25 And for the daughter-towns with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba and its daughter-towns, and in Dibon and its daughter-towns, and in Jekabzeel and its daughter-towns,

Neh 11:26 And in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet,

Neh 11:27 And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,

Neh 11:28 And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns,

Neh 11:29 And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,

Neh 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.

Neh 11:31 And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

Neh 11:32 At Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

Neh 11:33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

Neh 11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,

Neh 11:35 Lod and Ono, the valley of expert workers.

Neh 11:36 And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

Neh 12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Neh 12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

Neh 12:3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

Neh 12:4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,

Neh 12:5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

Neh 12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

Neh 12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.

Neh 12:8 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

Neh 12:9 And Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were opposite them in their watches.

Neh 12:10 And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib was the father of Joiada,

Neh 12:11 And Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.

Neh 12:12 And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Neh 12:13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

Neh 12:14 Of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

Neh 12:15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

Neh 12:16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

Neh 12:17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

Neh 12:18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

Neh 12:19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

Neh 12:20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

Neh 12:21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

Neh 12:22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were listed as heads of families; and the priests, when Darius the Persian was king.

Neh 12:23 The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

Neh 12:24 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch.

Neh 12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

Neh 12:26 These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

Neh 12:27 And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

Neh 12:28 And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,

Neh 12:29 And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.

Neh 12:30 And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

Neh 12:31 Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;

Neh 12:32 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the rulers of Judah,

Neh 12:33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

Neh 12:34 Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah,

Neh 12:35 And certain of the priests' sons with wind instruments; Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,

Neh 12:36 And his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel and Judah, Hanani, with the music-instruments of David, the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was at their head;

Neh 12:37 And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.

Neh 12:38 And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

Neh 12:39 And over the doorway of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the sheep door: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

Neh 12:40 So the two bands of those who gave praise took up their positions in the house of God, and I and half of the chiefs with me:

Neh 12:41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with wind instruments;

Neh 12:42 And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer. And the makers of melody made their voices loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

Neh 12:43 And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

Neh 12:44 And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

Neh 12:45 And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.

Neh 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God.

Neh 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.

Neh 13:1 On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;

Neh 13:2 Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.

Neh 13:3 So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.

Neh 13:4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God, being a friend of Tobiah,

Neh 13:5 Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

Neh 13:6 But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,

Neh 13:7 And I came to Jerusalem; and it was clear to me what evil Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making ready for him a room in the buildings of the house of God.

Neh 13:8 And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room.

Neh 13:9 Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume.

Neh 13:10 And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.

Neh 13:11 Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.

Neh 13:12 Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.

Neh 13:13 And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.

Neh 13:14 Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.

Neh 13:15 In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.

Neh 13:16 And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.

Neh 13:17 Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil which you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?

Neh 13:18 Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

Neh 13:19 And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

Neh 13:20 So the traders in all sorts of goods took their night's rest outside Jerusalem once or twice.

Neh 13:21 Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.

Neh 13:22 And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.

Neh 13:23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

Neh 13:24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.

Neh 13:25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Neh 13:26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

Neh 13:27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

Neh 13:28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.

Neh 13:29 Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.

Neh 13:30 So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

Neh 13:31 And for the wood offering, at fixed times, and for the first fruits. Keep me in mind, O my God, for good.

Est 1:1 Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

Est 1:2 That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

Est 1:3 In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

Est 1:4 And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

Est 1:5 And at the end of that time, the king gave a feast for all the people who were present in Shushan, the king's town, small as well as great, for seven days, in the outer square of the garden of the king's house.

Est 1:6 There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

Est 1:7 And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

Est 1:8 And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

Est 1:9 And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.

Est 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,

Est 1:11 That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

Est 1:12 But when the servants gave her the king's order, Vashti the queen said she would not come: then the king was very angry, and his heart was burning with wrath.

Est 1:13 And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:

Est 1:14 And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)

Est 1:15 What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do?

Est 1:16 And before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus;

Est 1:17 For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not.

Est 1:18 And the wives of the captains of Persia and Media, hearing what the queen has done, will say the same to all the king's captains. So there will be much shame and wrath.

Est 1:19 If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

Est 1:20 And when this order, given by the king, is made public through all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give honour to their husbands, great as well as small.

Est 1:21 And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;

Est 1:22 And sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs, saying that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given out in the language of his people.

Est 2:1 After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.

Est 2:2 Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:

Est 2:3 Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;

Est 2:4 And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

Est 2:5 Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

Est 2:6 Who had been taken away from Jerusalem among those who had been made prisoner with Jeconiah, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken him away.

Est 2:7 And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

Est 2:8 So when the order made by the king was publicly given out, and a number of girls had been placed in the care of Hegai in the king's house in Shushan, Esther was taken into the king's house and put in the care of Hegai, the keeper of the women.

Est 2:9 And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.

Est 2:10 Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.

Est 2:11 And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

Est 2:12 Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):

Est 2:13 And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

Est 2:14 In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

Est 2:15 Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

Est 2:16 So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

Est 2:17 And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Est 2:18 Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.

Est 2:19 And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.

Est 2:20 Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.

Est 2:21 In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's doorway, two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the door, being angry, were looking for a chance to make an attack on King Ahasuerus.

Est 2:22 And Mordecai, having knowledge of their purpose, sent word of it to Esther the queen; and Esther gave the news to the king in Mordecai's name.

Est 2:23 And when the thing had been looked into, it was seen to be true, and the two of them were put to death by hanging on a tree: and it was put down in the records before the king.

Est 3:1 After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.

Est 3:2 And all the king's servants who were in the king's house went down to the earth before Haman and gave him honour: for so the king had given orders. But Mordecai did not go down before him or give him honour.

Est 3:3 Then the king's servants who were in the king's house said to Mordecai, Why do you go against the king's order?

Est 3:4 Now when they had said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they let Haman have news of it, to see if Mordecai's behaviour would be overlooked: for he had said to them that he was a Jew.

Est 3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not go down before him and give him honour, Haman was full of wrath.

Est 3:6 But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Est 3:7 In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

Est 3:8 And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

Est 3:9 If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.

Est 3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

Est 3:11 And the king said to Haman, The money is yours, and the people, to do with them whatever seems right to you.

Est 3:12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

Est 3:13 And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.

Est 3:14 A copy of the writing, to be made public in every part of the kingdom, was sent out to all the peoples, so that they might be ready when that day came.

Est 3:15 The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.

Est 4:1 Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.

Est 4:2 And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.

Est 4:3 And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

Est 4:4 And Esther's women and her servants came and gave her word of it. Then great was the grief of the queen: and she sent robes for Mordecai, so that his clothing of haircloth might be taken off; but he would not have them.

Est 4:5 Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

Est 4:6 So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.

Est 4:7 And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.

Est 4:8 And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.

Est 4:9 And Hathach came back and gave Esther an account of what Mordecai had said.

Est 4:10 Then Esther sent Hathach to say to Mordecai:

Est 4:11 It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.

Est 4:12 And they said these words to Mordecai.

Est 4:13 Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.

Est 4:14 If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?

Est 4:15 Then Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:

Est 4:16 Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Est 4:17 So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had said.

Est 5:1 Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

Est 5:2 And when the king saw Esther the queen waiting in the inner room, looking kindly on her he put out the rod of gold in his hand to her. So Esther came near and put her fingers on the top of the rod.

Est 5:3 Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.

Est 5:4 And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.

Est 5:5 Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.

Est 5:6 And while they were drinking wine the king said to Esther, What is your prayer? for it will be given to you and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.

Est 5:7 Then Esther said in answer, My prayer and my request is this:

Est 5:8 If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.

Est 5:9 Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart; but when he saw Mordecai in the king's doorway, and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai.

Est 5:10 But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife.

Est 5:11 And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

Est 5:12 And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.

Est 5:13 But all this is nothing to me while I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's doorway.

Est 5:14 Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.

Est 6:1 That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

Est 6:2 It came out that it was recorded in the book how Mordecai had given word of the designs of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's servants, keepers of the door, by whom an attack on the king had been designed.

Est 6:3 And the king said, What honour and reward have been given to Mordecai for this? Then the servants who were waiting on the king said, Nothing has been done for him.

Est 6:4 Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now Haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.

Est 6:5 And the king's servants said to him, See, Haman is waiting in the outer room. And the king said, Let him come in.

Est 6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring? Then the thought came into Haman's mind, Whom, more than myself, would the king have pleasure in honouring?

Est 6:7 And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,

Est 6:8 Let them take the robes which the king generally puts on, and the horse on which the king goes, and the crown which is on his head:

Est 6:9 And let the robes and the horse be given to one of the king's most noble captains, so that they may put them on the man whom the king has delight in honouring, and let him go on horseback through the streets of the town, with men crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.

Est 6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Go quickly, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who is seated at the king's doorway: see that you do everything as you have said.

Est 6:11 Then Haman took the robes and the horse, and dressing Mordecai in the robes, he made him go on horseback through the streets of the town, crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.

Est 6:12 And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

Est 6:13 And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

Est 6:14 While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.

Est 7:1 So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.

Est 7:2 And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.

Est 7:3 Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:

Est 7:4 For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

Est 7:5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?

Est 7:6 And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

Est 7:7 And the king in his wrath got up from the feast and went into the garden: and Haman got to his feet to make a prayer for his life to Esther the queen: for he saw that the king's purpose was evil against him.

Est 7:8 Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

Est 7:9 Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.

Est 7:10 So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

Est 8:1 That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

Est 8:2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.

Est 8:3 Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.

Est 8:4 Then the king put out the rod of gold to Esther, and she got up before the king.

Est 8:5 And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:

Est 8:6 For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?

Est 8:7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

Est 8:8 So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.

Est 8:9 Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

Est 8:10 The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:

Est 8:11 In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

Est 8:12 On one day in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, that is, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

Est 8:13 A copy of the writing, to be made public as an order in every division of the kingdom, was given out to all the peoples, so that the Jews might be ready when that day came to give punishment to their haters.

Est 8:14 So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

Est 8:15 And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.

Est 8:16 And the Jews had light and joy and honour.

Est 8:17 And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

Est 9:1 Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the haters of the Jews had been hoping to have rule over them; though the opposite had come about, and the Jews had rule over their haters;

Est 9:2 On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, for the purpose of attacking all those who were attempting evil against them: and everyone had to give way before them, for the fear of them had come on all the peoples.

Est 9:3 And all the chiefs and the captains and the rulers and those who did the king's business gave support to the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai had come on them.

Est 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.

Est 9:5 So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.

Est 9:6 And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.

Est 9:7 They put to death Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Est 9:8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

Est 9:9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

Est 9:10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any of their goods.

Est 9:11 On that day the number of those who had been put to death in the town of Shushan was given to the king.

Est 9:12 And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as well as the ten sons of Haman: what then have they done in the rest of the kingdom! Now what is your prayer? for it will be given to you; what other request have you? and it will be done.

Est 9:13 Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.

Est 9:14 And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging of Haman's ten sons was effected.

Est 9:15 For the Jews who were in Shushan came together again on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and put to death three hundred men in Shushan; but they put not a hand on their goods.

Est 9:16 And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their haters and put seventy-five thousand of them to death; but they did not put a hand on their goods.

Est 9:17 This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

Est 9:18 But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and on the fifteenth day they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

Est 9:19 So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

Est 9:20 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,

Est 9:21 Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,

Est 9:22 As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.

Est 9:23 And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;

Est 9:24 Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;

Est 9:25 But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

Est 9:26 So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,

Est 9:27 The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to them to do the same, so that it might be in force for ever, that they would keep those two days, as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year;

Est 9:28 And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their seed.

Est 9:29 Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.

Est 9:30 And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace,

Est 9:31 Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

Est 9:32 The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.

Est 10:1 And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

Est 10:2 And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

Est 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

Job 1:2 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 1:3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

Job 1:4 His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

Job 1:5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

Job 1:6 And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

Job 1:7 And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

Job 1:8 And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

Job 1:9 And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?

Job 1:10 Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

Job 1:11 But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

Job 1:12 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

Job 1:13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

Job 1:14 And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

Job 1:15 And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Job 1:16 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Job 1:17 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Job 1:18 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

Job 1:19 When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Job 1:20 Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

Job 1:21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Job 1:22 In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

Job 2:1 And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

Job 2:2 And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

Job 2:3 And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

Job 2:4 And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

Job 2:5 But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

Job 2:6 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.

Job 2:7 And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Job 2:8 And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

Job 2:9 And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

Job 2:10 And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

Job 2:11 And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

Job 2:12 And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Job 2:13 And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Job 3:1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

Job 3:2 Job made answer and said,

Job 3:3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

Job 3:4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

Job 3:5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Job 3:6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

Job 3:7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

Job 3:8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

Job 3:9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

Job 3:10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Job 3:11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Job 3:12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

Job 3:13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

Job 3:14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

Job 3:15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

Job 3:16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Job 3:17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

Job 3:18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

Job 3:19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

Job 3:20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

Job 3:21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

Job 3:22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

Job 3:23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

Job 3:24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

Job 3:25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

Job 3:26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

Job 4:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

Job 4:2 If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

Job 4:3 Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;

Job 4:4 He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

Job 4:5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

Job 4:6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

Job 4:7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

Job 4:8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

Job 4:9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

Job 4:10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 4:11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

Job 4:12 A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.

Job 4:13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

Job 4:14 Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

Job 4:15 And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:

Job 4:16 Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

Job 4:17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

Job 4:18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

Job 4:19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

Job 4:20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

Job 4:21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

Job 5:1 Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?

Job 5:2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

Job 5:4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Job 5:5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

Job 5:6 For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

Job 5:7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Job 5:8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

Job 5:9 Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

Job 5:10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

Job 5:11 Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

Job 5:12 Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

Job 5:14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

Job 5:15 But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

Job 5:16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

Job 5:17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

Job 5:18 For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

Job 5:19 He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

Job 5:20 When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

Job 5:21 He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

Job 5:22 You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

Job 5:23 For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

Job 5:24 And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

Job 5:25 You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

Job 5:26 You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

Job 5:27 See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

Job 6:1 And Job made answer and said,

Job 6:2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

Job 6:3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

Job 6:5 Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

Job 6:6 Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

Job 6:7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

Job 6:8 If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!

Job 6:9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

Job 6:10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

Job 6:11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

Job 6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?

Job 6:13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

Job 6:14 He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

Job 6:15 My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

Job 6:16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

Job 6:17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

Job 6:18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

Job 6:19 The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:

Job 6:20 They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.

Job 6:21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

Job 6:22 Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?

Job 6:23 Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

Job 6:24 Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.

Job 6:25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

Job 6:26 My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

Job 6:27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

Job 6:28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

Job 6:29 Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

Job 6:30 Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?

Job 7:1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

Job 7:2 As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

Job 7:3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

Job 7:4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

Job 7:5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

Job 7:6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Job 7:7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

Job 7:8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

Job 7:9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

Job 7:10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

Job 7:11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

Job 7:13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

Job 7:14 Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

Job 7:15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

Job 7:16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

Job 7:17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

Job 7:18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

Job 7:19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

Job 7:20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

Job 7:21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

Job 8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Job 8:2 How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

Job 8:3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

Job 8:4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

Job 8:5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

Job 8:6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

Job 8:7 And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

Job 8:8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Job 8:10 Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

Job 8:11 Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Job 8:12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

Job 8:13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

Job 8:14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

Job 8:15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

Job 8:16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

Job 8:17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

Job 8:18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

Job 8:19 Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

Job 8:20 Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

Job 8:21 The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

Job 8:22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

Job 9:1 And Job made answer and said,

Job 9:2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

Job 9:3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

Job 9:5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

Job 9:6 Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

Job 9:7 Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

Job 9:8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

Job 9:9 Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:

Job 9:10 Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.

Job 9:11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

Job 9:12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

Job 9:13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

Job 9:14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

Job 9:15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

Job 9:16 If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

Job 9:17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

Job 9:18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

Job 9:19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

Job 9:20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

Job 9:21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

Job 9:22 It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

Job 9:23 If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

Job 9:24 The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

Job 9:25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

Job 9:26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

Job 9:27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

Job 9:28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

Job 9:29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

Job 9:30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

Job 9:31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

Job 9:32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

Job 9:33 There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

Job 9:34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

Job 9:35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

Job 10:1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Job 10:2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

Job 10:3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Job 10:4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

Job 10:5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

Job 10:6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

Job 10:7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

Job 10:8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

Job 10:9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 10:10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

Job 10:11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

Job 10:12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.

Job 10:13 But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

Job 10:14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

Job 10:15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

Job 10:16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

Job 10:17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

Job 10:18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Job 10:19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Job 10:20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

Job 10:21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

Job 10:22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Job 11:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

Job 11:2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

Job 11:3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

Job 11:4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

Job 11:5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

Job 11:6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

Job 11:7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

Job 11:8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

Job 11:9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

Job 11:10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

Job 11:11 For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

Job 11:12 And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Job 11:13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

Job 11:14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

Job 11:15 Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

Job 11:16 For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

Job 11:17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

Job 11:18 And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;

Job 11:19 Sleeping with no fear of danger; and men will be desiring to have grace in your eyes;

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

Job 12:1 And Job made answer and said,

Job 12:2 No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

Job 12:3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

Job 12:4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

Job 12:5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 12:6 There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

Job 12:7 But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

Job 12:8 Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

Job 12:9 Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

Job 12:11 Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?

Job 12:12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

Job 12:13 With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

Job 12:14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

Job 12:15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

Job 12:16 With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;

Job 12:17 He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

Job 12:18 He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;

Job 12:19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

Job 12:20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

Job 12:21 He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

Job 12:22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

Job 12:23 Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

Job 12:24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

Job 12:25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

Job 13:1 Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.

Job 13:2 The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

Job 13:3 But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

Job 13:4 But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

Job 13:5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

Job 13:6 Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

Job 13:7 Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

Job 13:8 Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?

Job 13:9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

Job 13:10 He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

Job 13:11 Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

Job 13:12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

Job 13:13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

Job 13:14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

Job 13:15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

Job 13:16 And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,

Job 13:17 Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.

Job 13:18 See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

Job 13:19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

Job 13:20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

Job 13:21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

Job 13:22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

Job 13:23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

Job 13:24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

Job 13:25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Job 13:26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

Job 13:27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

Job 13:28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Job 14:1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Job 14:2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Job 14:3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

Job 14:4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Job 14:5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Job 14:6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

Job 14:8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

Job 14:9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

Job 14:10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Job 14:11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

Job 14:12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

Job 14:13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

Job 14:14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

Job 14:15 At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.

Job 14:16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

Job 14:17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

Job 14:18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

Job 14:19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

Job 14:20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

Job 14:21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

Job 14:22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

Job 15:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

Job 15:2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

Job 15:3 Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

Job 15:4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

Job 15:5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

Job 15:6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

Job 15:7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

Job 15:8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

Job 15:9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

Job 15:10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

Job 15:11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

Job 15:12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

Job 15:13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

Job 15:14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 15:15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

Job 15:16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Job 15:17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

Job 15:18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

Job 15:19 For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

Job 15:20 The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

Job 15:21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

Job 15:22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

Job 15:23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

Job 15:24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

Job 15:25 Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

Job 15:26 Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

Job 15:27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

Job 15:28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

Job 15:29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

Job 15:30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

Job 15:31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

Job 15:32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

Job 15:33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

Job 15:34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

Job 15:35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

Job 16:1 And Job made answer and said,

Job 16:2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

Job 16:3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

Job 16:4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

Job 16:5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

Job 16:6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

Job 16:7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

Job 16:8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

Job 16:9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

Job 16:10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

Job 16:11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

Job 16:12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

Job 16:13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

Job 16:14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

Job 16:15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

Job 16:16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

Job 16:17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

Job 16:18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

Job 16:19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.

Job 16:20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Job 16:21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

Job 16:22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

Job 17:1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

Job 17:2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

Job 17:3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

Job 17:4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

Job 17:5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

Job 17:6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

Job 17:7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

Job 17:8 The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

Job 17:9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

Job 17:10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

Job 17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

Job 17:12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

Job 17:13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

Job 17:14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

Job 17:15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

Job 17:16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

Job 18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Job 18:2 How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

Job 18:3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

Job 18:4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Job 18:5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

Job 18:6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

Job 18:7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

Job 18:8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

Job 18:9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

Job 18:10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

Job 18:11 He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

Job 18:12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

Job 18:13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

Job 18:14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

Job 18:15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

Job 18:16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

Job 18:17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

Job 18:18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Job 18:19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

Job 18:20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

Job 18:21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

Job 19:1 And Job made answer and said,

Job 19:2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

Job 19:3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

Job 19:4 And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

Job 19:5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

Job 19:6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

Job 19:7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

Job 19:8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Job 19:9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

Job 19:10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

Job 19:11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

Job 19:12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

Job 19:13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

Job 19:14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

Job 19:15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

Job 19:16 At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

Job 19:18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

Job 19:19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

Job 19:20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

Job 19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

Job 19:22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

Job 19:23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

Job 19:24 And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

Job 19:25 But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Job 19:26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

Job 19:27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

Job 19:28 If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Job 19:29 Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

Job 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

Job 20:2 For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

Job 20:3 I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

Job 20:4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

Job 20:5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Job 20:6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

Job 20:7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

Job 20:8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

Job 20:9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

Job 20:10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

Job 20:11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

Job 20:12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

Job 20:13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

Job 20:14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

Job 20:15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

Job 20:16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

Job 20:17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

Job 20:18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

Job 20:19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

Job 20:20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

Job 20:21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

Job 20:22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

Job 20:23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

Job 20:24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

Job 20:25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

Job 20:26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

Job 20:27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

Job 20:28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

Job 20:29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

Job 21:1 Then Job made answer and said,

Job 21:2 Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.

Job 21:3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

Job 21:4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

Job 21:5 Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.

Job 21:6 At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.

Job 21:7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

Job 21:8 Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9 Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

Job 21:10 Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

Job 21:11 They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,

Job 21:12 They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

Job 21:14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

Job 21:15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Job 21:16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

Job 21:17 How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

Job 21:18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

Job 21:19 You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

Job 21:20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

Job 21:21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

Job 21:22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

Job 21:23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

Job 21:24 His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.

Job 21:25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

Job 21:26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Job 21:27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

Job 21:28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

Job 21:29 Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

Job 21:30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

Job 21:31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

Job 21:32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

Job 21:33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

Job 21:34 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Job 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

Job 22:2 Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

Job 22:3 Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

Job 22:4 Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

Job 22:5 Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

Job 22:6 For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Job 22:7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

Job 22:8 For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

Job 22:9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

Job 22:10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

Job 22:11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

Job 22:12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

Job 22:13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

Job 22:14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

Job 22:15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

Job 22:16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

Job 22:17 Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?

Job 22:18 Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

Job 22:19 The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

Job 22:20 Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

Job 22:21 Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

Job 22:22 Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

Job 22:23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

Job 22:24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

Job 22:25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

Job 22:26 For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.

Job 22:27 You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

Job 22:28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

Job 22:29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

Job 22:30 He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

Job 23:1 And Job made answer and said,

Job 23:2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

Job 23:3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

Job 23:4 I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

Job 23:5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

Job 23:6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

Job 23:7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

Job 23:8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

Job 23:9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

Job 23:10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

Job 23:11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

Job 23:12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

Job 23:13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

Job 23:14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

Job 23:15 For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

Job 23:16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

Job 23:17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

Job 24:1 Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

Job 24:2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

Job 24:3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

Job 24:4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

Job 24:5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

Job 24:6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

Job 24:7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

Job 24:8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

Job 24:9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Job 24:10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Job 24:11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

Job 24:12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

Job 24:13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

Job 24:14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Job 24:15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

Job 24:16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

Job 24:17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

Job 24:18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

Job 24:19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

Job 24:20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

Job 24:21 He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

Job 24:22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

Job 24:23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

Job 24:24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Job 24:25 And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

Job 25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Job 25:2 Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.

Job 25:3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

Job 25:4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Job 25:5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

Job 25:6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

Job 26:1 Then Job made answer and said,

Job 26:2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

Job 26:3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

Job 26:4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

Job 26:5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

Job 26:6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

Job 26:7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Job 26:8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

Job 26:9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

Job 26:10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Job 26:11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

Job 26:12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

Job 26:13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Job 26:14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

Job 27:1 And Job again took up the word and said,

Job 27:2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

Job 27:3 (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)

Job 27:4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

Job 27:5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

Job 27:6 I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

Job 27:7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

Job 27:9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

Job 27:10 Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

Job 27:11 I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

Job 27:12 Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?

Job 27:13 This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

Job 27:14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

Job 27:15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

Job 27:16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

Job 27:17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

Job 27:18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

Job 27:19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

Job 27:20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

Job 27:21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

Job 27:22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

Job 27:23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

Job 28:1 Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

Job 28:3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

Job 28:4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

Job 28:5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

Job 28:6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

Job 28:7 No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

Job 28:8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

Job 28:9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

Job 28:10 He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

Job 28:11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

Job 28:12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

Job 28:13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

Job 28:14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

Job 28:15 Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

Job 28:16 It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.

Job 28:17 Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.

Job 28:18 There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia is not equal to it, and it may not be valued with the best gold.

Job 28:20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

Job 28:21 For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.

Job 28:22 Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

Job 28:23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

Job 28:24 For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

Job 28:25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

Job 28:26 When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

Job 28:27 Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

Job 28:28 And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Job 29:1 And Job again took up the word and said,

Job 29:2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

Job 29:3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

Job 29:4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

Job 29:5 While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

Job 29:6 When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

Job 29:7 When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

Job 29:8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

Job 29:9 The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

Job 29:10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

Job 29:11 For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

Job 29:12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

Job 29:13 The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

Job 29:14 I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

Job 29:16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

Job 29:17 By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

Job 29:18 Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

Job 29:19 My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

Job 29:20 My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.

Job 29:21 Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.

Job 29:22 After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

Job 29:23 They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

Job 29:24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

Job 29:25 I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

Job 30:1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

Job 30:2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

Job 30:3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

Job 30:4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Job 30:5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

Job 30:6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

Job 30:7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

Job 30:8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

Job 30:9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

Job 30:10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

Job 30:11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

Job 30:12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

Job 30:13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

Job 30:14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

Job 30:15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

Job 30:16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

Job 30:17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

Job 30:18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

Job 30:19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

Job 30:20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

Job 30:21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

Job 30:22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

Job 30:23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Job 30:24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

Job 30:25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

Job 30:26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Job 30:27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

Job 30:28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

Job 30:29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

Job 30:30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

Job 30:31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

Job 31:1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

Job 31:2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

Job 31:3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

Job 31:4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

Job 31:5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

Job 31:6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

Job 31:7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

Job 31:8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

Job 31:9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

Job 31:10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

Job 31:11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

Job 31:12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

Job 31:13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

Job 31:14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

Job 31:15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

Job 31:16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

Job 31:17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

Job 31:18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

Job 31:19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

Job 31:20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

Job 31:21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Job 31:22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

Job 31:23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

Job 31:24 If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;

Job 31:25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

Job 31:26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

Job 31:27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

Job 31:28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

Job 31:29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

Job 31:30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

Job 31:31 If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

Job 31:32 The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

Job 31:33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

Job 31:34 For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

Job 31:35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

Job 31:36 Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

Job 31:37 I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

Job 31:38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

Job 31:39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Job 31:40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

Job 32:1 So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.

Job 32:2 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

Job 32:3 And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

Job 32:4 Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

Job 32:5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry.

Job 32:6 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

Job 32:7 I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

Job 32:8 But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

Job 32:9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

Job 32:10 So I say, Give ear to me, and I will put forward my knowledge.

Job 32:11 I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,

Job 32:12 I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words.

Job 32:13 Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

Job 32:14 I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

Job 32:15 Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.

Job 32:16 And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

Job 32:17 I will give my answer; I will put forward my knowledge:

Job 32:18 For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

Job 32:19 My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

Job 32:20 Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

Job 32:21 Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

Job 32:22 For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

Job 33:1 And now, O Job, give ear to my words, and take note of all I say.

Job 33:2 See, now my mouth is open, my tongue gives out words.

Job 33:3 My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.

Job 33:4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

Job 33:5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

Job 33:6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Job 33:7 Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

Job 33:8 But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears:

Job 33:9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

Job 33:10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

Job 33:11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

Job 33:12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

Job 33:13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

Job 33:14 For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

Job 33:16 Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;

Job 33:17 In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

Job 33:18 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

Job 33:19 Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

Job 33:20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

Job 33:21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

Job 33:22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

Job 33:23 If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

Job 33:24 And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

Job 33:25 Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

Job 33:26 He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

Job 33:27 He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Job 33:28 He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

Job 33:29 Truly, God does all these things to man, twice and three times,

Job 33:30 Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

Job 33:31 Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.

Job 33:32 If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

Job 33:33 If not, give attention to me, and keep quiet, and I will give you wisdom.

Job 34:1 And Elihu made answer and said,

Job 34:2 Give ear, you wise, to my words; and you who have knowledge, give attention to me;

Job 34:3 For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

Job 34:4 Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.

Job 34:5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

Job 34:6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

Job 34:7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

Job 34:8 And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

Job 34:9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

Job 34:10 Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Job 34:11 For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

Job 34:12 Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

Job 34:13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

Job 34:14 If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

Job 34:15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Job 34:16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

Job 34:17 How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

Job 34:18 He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

Job 34:19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

Job 34:20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

Job 34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

Job 34:22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

Job 34:23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

Job 34:24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

Job 34:25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

Job 34:26 The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

Job 34:27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

Job 34:28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

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Job 34:34 Men of knowledge, and all wise men, hearing me, will say,

Job 34:35 Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

Job 34:36 May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

Job 34:37 For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

Job 35:1 And Elihu made answer and said,

Job 35:2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

Job 35:3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

Job 35:4 I will make answer to you and to your friends:

Job 35:5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

Job 35:6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

Job 35:7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

Job 35:8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

Job 35:9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

Job 35:10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

Job 35:11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

Job 35:12 There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

Job 35:13 But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Job 35:14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

Job 35:15 And now ... ;

Job 35:16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

Job 36:1 And Elihu went on to say,

Job 36:2 Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.

Job 36:3 I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.

Job 36:4 For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.

Job 36:5 Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

Job 36:6 His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

Job 36:7 Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.

Job 36:8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

Job 36:9 Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

Job 36:10 Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.

Job 36:11 If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

Job 36:12 But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Job 36:13 Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

Job 36:14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Job 36:15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

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Job 36:21 Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

Job 36:22 Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

Job 36:23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

Job 36:24 See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

Job 36:25 All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.

Job 36:26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

Job 36:27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

Job 36:28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

Job 36:29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Job 36:30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

Job 36:31 For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

Job 36:32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

Job 36:33 The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

Job 37:1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

Job 37:2 Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

Job 37:3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

Job 37:4 After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

Job 37:5 He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

Job 37:6 For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

Job 37:7 He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.

Job 37:8 Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

Job 37:9 Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.

Job 37:10 By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

Job 37:11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

Job 37:12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

Job 37:13 For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.

Job 37:14 Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

Job 37:15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

Job 37:16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

Job 37:17 You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

Job 37:18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

Job 37:19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

Job 37:20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

Job 37:21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

Job 37:22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

Job 37:23 There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

Job 37:24 For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

Job 38:1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

Job 38:2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Job 38:3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Job 38:4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

Job 38:5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

Job 38:6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

Job 38:7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

Job 38:8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

Job 38:9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

Job 38:10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

Job 38:11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

Job 38:12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

Job 38:13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

Job 38:14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

Job 38:15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

Job 38:16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

Job 38:17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

Job 38:18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

Job 38:19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Job 38:20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

Job 38:21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

Job 38:22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

Job 38:23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

Job 38:24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Job 38:25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

Job 38:26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

Job 38:27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Job 38:28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

Job 38:29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

Job 38:30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

Job 38:31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

Job 38:32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

Job 38:33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

Job 38:34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Job 38:35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

Job 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

Job 38:37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

Job 38:38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

Job 38:39 Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Job 38:40 When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

Job 38:41 Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Job 39:1 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

Job 39:2 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

Job 39:3 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

Job 39:4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

Job 39:5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

Job 39:6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

Job 39:7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

Job 39:8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

Job 39:9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

Job 39:10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

Job 39:11 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

Job 39:12 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

Job 39:13 Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

Job 39:14 That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

Job 39:15 Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

Job 39:16 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

Job 39:17 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Job 39:18 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

Job 39:19 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

Job 39:20 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Job 39:21 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

Job 39:22 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

Job 39:23 The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

Job 39:24 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

Job 39:25 When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

Job 39:26 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

Job 39:27 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

Job 39:28 On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

Job 39:29 From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

Job 39:30 His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

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Job 40:2 Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Job 40:3 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

Job 40:4 Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.

Job 40:5 I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.

Job 40:6 Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

Job 40:7 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Job 40:8 Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

Job 40:9 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

Job 40:10 Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

Job 40:11 Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

Job 40:12 Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

Job 40:13 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

Job 40:14 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

Job 40:15 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

Job 40:16 His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.

Job 40:17 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

Job 40:18 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

Job 40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

Job 40:20 He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

Job 40:21 He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.

Job 40:22 He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

Job 40:23 Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

Job 40:24 Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

Job 41:1 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

Job 41:2 Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

Job 41:3 Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

Job 41:4 Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

Job 41:5 Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

Job 41:6 Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Job 41:7 Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

Job 41:8 Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

Job 41:9 Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

Job 41:10 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

Job 41:11 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

Job 41:12 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

Job 41:13 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

Job 41:14 Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

Job 41:15 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

Job 41:16 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

Job 41:17 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

Job 41:18 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

Job 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

Job 41:20 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

Job 41:21 His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Job 41:22 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

Job 41:23 The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.

Job 41:24 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

Job 41:25 When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

Job 41:26 The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

Job 41:27 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

Job 41:28 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

Job 41:29 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

Job 41:30 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

Job 41:31 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

Job 41:32 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

Job 41:33 On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

Job 41:34 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

Job 42:1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

Job 42:2 I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.

Job 42:3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

Job 42:4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Job 42:5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

Job 42:6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

Job 42:7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:9 And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.

Job 42:10 And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

Job 42:11 And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

Job 42:12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Job 42:13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14 And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;

Job 42:15 And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

Job 42:16 And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Job 42:17 And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

Psm 1:1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

Psm 1:2 But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

Psm 1:3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

Psm 1:4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Psm 1:5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

Psm 1:6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

Psm 2:1 Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

Psm 2:2 The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

Psm 2:3 Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

Psm 2:4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

Psm 2:5 Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

Psm 2:6 But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

Psm 2:7 I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.

Psm 2:8 Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.

Psm 2:9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

Psm 2:10 So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.

Psm 2:11 Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

Psm 2:12 For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

Psm 3:1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

Psm 3:2 Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)

Psm 3:3 But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.

Psm 3:4 I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)

Psm 3:5 I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.

Psm 3:6 I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

Psm 3:7 Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

Psm 3:8 Salvation comes from the Lord; your blessing is on your people. (Selah.)

Psm 4:1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.

Psm 4:2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

Psm 4:3 See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.

Psm 4:4 Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Psm 4:5 Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.

Psm 4:6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psm 4:7 Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

Psm 4:8 I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.

Psm 5:1 <To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.

Psm 5:2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

Psm 5:3 My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

Psm 5:4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

Psm 5:5 The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

Psm 5:6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

Psm 5:7 But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

Psm 5:8 Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

Psm 5:9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

Psm 5:10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

Psm 5:11 But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

Psm 5:12 For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

Psm 6:1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

Psm 6:2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

Psm 6:3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

Psm 6:4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

Psm 6:5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Psm 6:6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

Psm 6:7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

Psm 6:8 Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

Psm 6:9 The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.

Psm 6:10 Let all those who are against me be shamed and deeply troubled; let them be turned back and suddenly put to shame.

Psm 7:1 <Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

Psm 7:2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

Psm 7:3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

Psm 7:4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

Psm 7:5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

Psm 7:6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

Psm 7:7 The meeting of the nations will be round you; take your seat, then, over them, on high.

Psm 7:8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

Psm 7:9 O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

Psm 7:10 God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

Psm 7:11 God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

Psm 7:12 If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

Psm 7:13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

Psm 7:14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

Psm 7:15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

Psm 7:16 His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

Psm 7:17 I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.

Psm 8:1 <To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

Psm 8:2 You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

Psm 8:3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

Psm 8:4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

Psm 8:5 For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

Psm 8:6 You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;

Psm 8:7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;

Psm 8:8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

Psm 8:9 O Lord, our Lord, how noble is your name in all the earth!

Psm 9:1 <To the chief music-maker on Muthlabben. A Psalm. Of David.> I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of your works.

Psm 9:2 I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

Psm 9:3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

Psm 9:4 For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.

Psm 9:5 You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

Psm 9:6 You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

Psm 9:7 But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

Psm 9:8 And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

Psm 9:9 The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

Psm 9:10 And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

Psm 9:11 Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.

Psm 9:12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

Psm 9:13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

Psm 9:14 So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

Psm 9:15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

Psm 9:16 The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

Psm 9:17 The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

Psm 9:18 For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.

Psm 9:19 Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.

Psm 9:20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)

Psm 10:1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

Psm 10:2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

Psm 10:3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

Psm 10:4 The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Psm 10:5 His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Psm 10:6 He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

Psm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Psm 10:8 He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Psm 10:9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

Psm 10:10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

Psm 10:11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

Psm 10:12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

Psm 10:13 Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Psm 10:14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

Psm 10:15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

Psm 10:16 The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

Psm 10:17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

Psm 10:18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

Psm 11:1 <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

Psm 11:2 See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

Psm 11:3 If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?

Psm 11:4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

Psm 11:5 The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

Psm 11:6 On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

Psm 11:7 For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

Psm 12:1 <For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.

Psm 12:2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

Psm 12:3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

Psm 12:4 They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Psm 12:5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Psm 12:6 The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

Psm 12:7 You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.

Psm 12:8 The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

Psm 13:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

Psm 13:2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

Psm 13:3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

Psm 13:4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

Psm 13:5 But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

Psm 13:6 I will make a song to the Lord, because he has given me my reward.

Psm 14:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Psm 14:2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Psm 14:3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Psm 14:4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Psm 14:5 Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Psm 14:6 You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

Psm 14:7 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

Psm 15:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

Psm 15:2 He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;

Psm 15:3 Whose tongue is not false, who does no evil to his friend, and does not take away the good name of his neighbour;

Psm 15:4 Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.

Psm 15:5 He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

Psm 16:1 <Michtam. Of David.> Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

Psm 16:2 O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

Psm 16:3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

Psm 16:4 Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

Psm 16:5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.

Psm 16:6 Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.

Psm 16:7 I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

Psm 16:8 I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

Psm 16:9 Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.

Psm 16:10 For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

Psm 16:11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

Psm 17:1 <A Prayer. Of David.> Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

Psm 17:2 Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.

Psm 17:3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

Psm 17:4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Psm 17:5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

Psm 17:6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

Psm 17:7 Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.

Psm 17:8 Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

Psm 17:9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

Psm 17:10 They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

Psm 17:11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

Psm 17:12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

Psm 17:13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

Psm 17:14 With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Psm 17:15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

Psm 18:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.

Psm 18:2 The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psm 18:3 I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

Psm 18:4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

Psm 18:5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

Psm 18:6 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

Psm 18:7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

Psm 18:8 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

Psm 18:9 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

Psm 18:10 And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

Psm 18:11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Psm 18:12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

Psm 18:13 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

Psm 18:14 He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

Psm 18:15 Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

Psm 18:16 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

Psm 18:17 He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

Psm 18:18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

Psm 18:19 He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

Psm 18:20 The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

Psm 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

Psm 18:22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

Psm 18:23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

Psm 18:24 Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

Psm 18:25 On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

Psm 18:26 He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

Psm 18:27 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

Psm 18:28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

Psm 18:29 By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

Psm 18:30 As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

Psm 18:31 For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

Psm 18:32 God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

Psm 18:33 He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

Psm 18:34 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

Psm 18:35 You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

Psm 18:36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

Psm 18:37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

Psm 18:38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

Psm 18:39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

Psm 18:40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

Psm 18:41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

Psm 18:42 Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

Psm 18:43 You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

Psm 18:44 From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

Psm 18:45 They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

Psm 18:46 The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

Psm 18:47 It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

Psm 18:48 He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

Psm 18:49 Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.

Psm 18:50 Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

Psm 19:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

Psm 19:2 Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

Psm 19:3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

Psm 19:4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

Psm 19:5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

Psm 19:6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Psm 19:7 The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

Psm 19:8 The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

Psm 19:9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

Psm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

Psm 19:11 By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.

Psm 19:12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

Psm 19:13 Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

Psm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

Psm 20:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;

Psm 20:2 May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

Psm 20:3 May he keep all your offerings in mind, and be pleased with the fat of your burned offerings; (Selah.)

Psm 20:4 May he give you your heart's desire, and put all your purposes into effect.

Psm 20:5 We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

Psm 20:6 Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.

Psm 20:7 Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

Psm 20:8 They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

Psm 20:9 Come to our help, Lord: let the king give ear to our cry.

Psm 21:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!

Psm 21:2 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)

Psm 21:3 For you go before him with the blessings of good things: you put a crown of fair gold on his head.

Psm 21:4 He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

Psm 21:5 His glory is great in your salvation: honour and authority have you put on him.

Psm 21:6 For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

Psm 21:7 For the king has faith in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he will not be moved.

Psm 21:8 Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

Psm 21:9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

Psm 21:10 Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

Psm 21:11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Psm 21:12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

Psm 21:13 Be lifted up, O Lord, in your strength; so will we make songs in praise of your power.

Psm 22:1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

Psm 22:2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

Psm 22:3 But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.

Psm 22:4 Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

Psm 22:5 They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

Psm 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

Psm 22:7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

Psm 22:8 He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

Psm 22:9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

Psm 22:10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

Psm 22:11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

Psm 22:12 A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

Psm 22:13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

Psm 22:14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

Psm 22:15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

Psm 22:16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

Psm 22:17 I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

Psm 22:18 They make a division of my robes among them, by the decision of chance they take my clothing.

Psm 22:19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

Psm 22:20 Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

Psm 22:21 Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

Psm 22:22 I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.

Psm 22:23 You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.

Psm 22:24 For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

Psm 22:25 My praise will be of you in the great meeting: I will make my offerings before his worshippers.

Psm 22:26 The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

Psm 22:27 All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

Psm 22:28 For the kingdom is the Lord's; he is the ruler among the nations.

Psm 22:29 All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

Psm 22:30 A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

Psm 22:31 They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.

Psm 23:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

Psm 23:2 He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters.

Psm 23:3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.

Psm 23:4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

Psm 23:5 You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

Psm 23:6 Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

Psm 24:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

Psm 24:2 For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

Psm 24:3 Who may go up into the hill of the Lord? and who may come into his holy place?

Psm 24:4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

Psm 24:5 He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Psm 24:6 This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

Psm 24:7 Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.

Psm 24:8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord of strength and power, the Lord strong in war.

Psm 24:9 Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; let them be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.

Psm 24:10 Who is the King of glory? The Lord of armies, he is the King of glory. (Selah.)

Psm 25:1 <Of David.> To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

Psm 25:2 O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

Psm 25:3 Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

Psm 25:4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

Psm 25:5 Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

Psm 25:6 O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

Psm 25:7 Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

Psm 25:8 Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

Psm 25:9 He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

Psm 25:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

Psm 25:11 Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

Psm 25:12 If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

Psm 25:13 His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.

Psm 25:14 The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.

Psm 25:15 My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.

Psm 25:16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

Psm 25:17 The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

Psm 25:18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

Psm 25:19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

Psm 25:20 O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.

Psm 25:21 For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

Psm 25:22 Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psm 26:1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

Psm 26:2 Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

Psm 26:3 For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

Psm 26:4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

Psm 26:5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Psm 26:6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

Psm 26:7 That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.

Psm 26:8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

Psm 26:9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

Psm 26:10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

Psm 26:11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

Psm 26:12 I have a safe resting-place for my feet; I will give praise to the Lord in the meetings of the people.

Psm 27:1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

Psm 27:2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

Psm 27:3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

Psm 27:4 One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

Psm 27:5 For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

Psm 27:6 And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

Psm 27:7 O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

Psm 27:8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Psm 27:9 Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Psm 27:10 When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

Psm 27:11 Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.

Psm 27:12 Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

Psm 27:13 I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psm 27:14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

Psm 28:1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Psm 28:2 Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

Psm 28:3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Psm 28:4 Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

Psm 28:5 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

Psm 28:6 May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

Psm 28:7 The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

Psm 28:8 The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

Psm 28:9 Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

Psm 29:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Give to the Lord, you sons of the gods, give to the Lord glory and strength.

Psm 29:2 Give to the Lord the full glory of his name; give him worship in holy robes.

Psm 29:3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.

Psm 29:4 The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

Psm 29:5 By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

Psm 29:6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

Psm 29:7 At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen.

Psm 29:8 At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh.

Psm 29:9 At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.

Psm 29:10 The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

Psm 29:11 The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.

Psm 30:1 <A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

Psm 30:2 O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

Psm 30:3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

Psm 30:4 Make songs to the Lord, O you saints of his, and give praise to his holy name.

Psm 30:5 For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Psm 30:6 When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved.

Psm 30:7 Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

Psm 30:8 My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.

Psm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

Psm 30:10 Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

Psm 30:11 By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

Psm 30:12 So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.

Psm 31:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.

Psm 31:2 Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

Psm 31:3 For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

Psm 31:4 Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

Psm 31:5 Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

Psm 31:6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

Psm 31:7 I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

Psm 31:8 And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

Psm 31:9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

Psm 31:10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Psm 31:11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

Psm 31:12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

Psm 31:13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

Psm 31:14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

Psm 31:15 The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

Psm 31:16 Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.

Psm 31:17 Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

Psm 31:18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

Psm 31:19 O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

Psm 31:20 You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

Psm 31:21 May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

Psm 31:22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

Psm 31:23 O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

Psm 31:24 Put away fear and let your heart be strong, all you whose hope is in the Lord.

Psm 32:1 <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

Psm 32:2 Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Psm 32:3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Psm 32:4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Psm 32:5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

Psm 32:6 For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

Psm 32:7 You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

Psm 32:8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

Psm 32:9 Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Psm 32:10 The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

Psm 32:11 Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

Psm 33:1 Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.

Psm 33:2 Give praise to the Lord on the corded instrument; make melody to him with instruments of music.

Psm 33:3 Make a new song to him; playing expertly with a loud noise.

Psm 33:4 For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are certain.

Psm 33:5 His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

Psm 33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

Psm 33:7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

Psm 33:8 Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him.

Psm 33:9 For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

Psm 33:10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

Psm 33:11 The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

Psm 33:12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

Psm 33:13 The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;

Psm 33:14 From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

Psm 33:15 He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.

Psm 33:16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

Psm 33:17 A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

Psm 33:18 See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

Psm 33:19 To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

Psm 33:20 Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

Psm 33:21 For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.

Psm 33:22 Let your mercy be on us, O Lord, as we are waiting for you.

Psm 34:1 <Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went.> I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

Psm 34:2 My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.

Psm 34:3 O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.

Psm 34:4 I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

Psm 34:5 Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.

Psm 34:6 This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

Psm 34:7 The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

Psm 34:8 By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Psm 34:9 Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

Psm 34:10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

Psm 34:11 Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Psm 34:12 What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

Psm 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Psm 34:14 Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

Psm 34:15 The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.

Psm 34:16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

Psm 34:17 The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

Psm 34:18 The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

Psm 34:19 Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

Psm 34:20 He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Psm 34:21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

Psm 34:22 The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

Psm 35:1 <Of David.> O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.

Psm 35:2 Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help.

Psm 35:3 Take up your spear and keep back my attackers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.

Psm 35:4 Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

Psm 35:5 Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

Psm 35:6 Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

Psm 35:7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

Psm 35:8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

Psm 35:9 And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

Psm 35:10 All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

Psm 35:11 False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

Psm 35:12 They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

Psm 35:13 But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

Psm 35:14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

Psm 35:15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

Psm 35:16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Psm 35:17 Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

Psm 35:18 I will give you praise in the great meeting; I will give you honour among a strong people.

Psm 35:19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

Psm 35:20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

Psm 35:21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

Psm 35:22 You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

Psm 35:23 Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.

Psm 35:24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

Psm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

Psm 35:26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

Psm 35:27 Let those who are on my side give cries of joy; let them ever say, The Lord be praised, for he has pleasure in the peace of his servant.

Psm 35:28 And my tongue will be talking of your righteousness and of your praise all the day.

Psm 36:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

Psm 36:2 For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

Psm 36:3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

Psm 36:4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Psm 36:5 Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

Psm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

Psm 36:7 How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

Psm 36:8 The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psm 36:9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

Psm 36:10 O let there be no end to your loving mercy to those who have knowledge of you, or of your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psm 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

Psm 36:12 There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Psm 37:1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Psm 37:2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

Psm 37:3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Psm 37:4 So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

Psm 37:5 Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

Psm 37:6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

Psm 37:7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

Psm 37:8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

Psm 37:9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

Psm 37:10 For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

Psm 37:11 But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

Psm 37:12 The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

Psm 37:13 He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

Psm 37:14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

Psm 37:15 But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Psm 37:16 The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

Psm 37:17 For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

Psm 37:18 The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.

Psm 37:19 They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

Psm 37:20 But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

Psm 37:21 The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Psm 37:22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

Psm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.

Psm 37:24 Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

Psm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

Psm 37:26 All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

Psm 37:27 Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

Psm 37:28 For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

Psm 37:29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

Psm 37:30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

Psm 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; he will never make a false step.

Psm 37:32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

Psm 37:33 The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

Psm 37:34 Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

Psm 37:35 I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

Psm 37:36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

Psm 37:37 Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

Psm 37:38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

Psm 37:39 But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Psm 37:40 And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

Psm 38:1 <A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.> O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

Psm 38:2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

Psm 38:3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

Psm 38:4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

Psm 38:5 My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

Psm 38:6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

Psm 38:7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

Psm 38:8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

Psm 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

Psm 38:10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

Psm 38:11 My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

Psm 38:12 Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

Psm 38:13 But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.

Psm 38:14 So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.

Psm 38:15 In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.

Psm 38:16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

Psm 38:17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

Psm 38:18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

Psm 38:19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

Psm 38:20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

Psm 38:21 Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

Psm 38:22 Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.

Psm 39:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Psm 39:2 I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

Psm 39:3 My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

Psm 39:4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

Psm 39:5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Psm 39:6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Psm 39:7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

Psm 39:8 Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

Psm 39:9 I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

Psm 39:10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

Psm 39:11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Psm 39:12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Psm 39:13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

Psm 40:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.> When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

Psm 40:2 He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

Psm 40:3 And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.

Psm 40:4 Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

Psm 40:5 O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

Psm 40:6 You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Psm 40:7 Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

Psm 40:8 My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Psm 40:9 I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

Psm 40:10 Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

Psm 40:11 Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

Psm 40:12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Psm 40:13 Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

Psm 40:14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

Psm 40:15 Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.

Psm 40:16 Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great.

Psm 40:17 Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

Psm 41:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

Psm 41:2 The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

Psm 41:3 The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

Psm 41:4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

Psm 41:5 My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

Psm 41:6 If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Psm 41:7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

Psm 41:8 They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Psm 41:9 Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

Psm 41:10 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.

Psm 41:11 By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

Psm 41:12 And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

Psm 41:13 May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.

Psm 42:1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

Psm 42:2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

Psm 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

Psm 42:4 Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Psm 42:5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Psm 42:6 My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Psm 42:7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

Psm 42:8 But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Psm 42:9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Psm 42:10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Psm 42:11 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Psm 43:1 Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

Psm 43:2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Psm 43:3 O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

Psm 43:4 Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

Psm 43:5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Psm 44:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

Psm 44:2 Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

Psm 44:3 For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

Psm 44:4 You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.

Psm 44:5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

Psm 44:6 I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.

Psm 44:7 But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

Psm 44:8 Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)

Psm 44:9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

Psm 44:10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

Psm 44:11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

Psm 44:12 You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

Psm 44:13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Psm 44:14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

Psm 44:15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

Psm 44:16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

Psm 44:17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

Psm 44:18 Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

Psm 44:19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

Psm 44:20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Psm 44:21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

Psm 44:22 Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

Psm 44:23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

Psm 44:24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

Psm 44:25 For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

Psm 44:26 Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.

Psm 45:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.> My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psm 45:2 You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

Psm 45:3 Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

Psm 45:4 And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

Psm 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

Psm 45:6 Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

Psm 45:7 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

Psm 45:8 Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

Psm 45:9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

Psm 45:10 O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

Psm 45:11 So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

Psm 45:12 And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

Psm 45:13 In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold.

Psm 45:14 She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.

Psm 45:15 With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.

Psm 45:16 Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

Psm 45:17 I will keep the memory of your name living through all generations; and because of this the people will give you praise for ever.

Psm 46:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psm 46:2 For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

Psm 46:3 Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)

Psm 46:4 There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Psm 46:5 God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

Psm 46:6 The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

Psm 46:7 The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)

Psm 46:8 Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

Psm 46:9 He puts an end to wars over all the earth; by him the bow is broken, and the spear cut in two, and the carriage burned in the fire.

Psm 46:10 Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.

Psm 46:11 The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)

Psm 47:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.

Psm 47:2 For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.

Psm 47:3 He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

Psm 47:4 He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)

Psm 47:5 God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn.

Psm 47:6 Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.

Psm 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.

Psm 47:8 God is the ruler over the nations; God is on the high seat of his holy rule.

Psm 47:9 The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.

Psm 48:1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psm 48:2 Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King.

Psm 48:3 In its buildings God is seen to be a high tower.

Psm 48:4 For see! the kings came together by agreement, they were joined together.

Psm 48:5 They saw it, and so were full of wonder; they were troubled, and went quickly away in fear.

Psm 48:6 Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

Psm 48:7 By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.

Psm 48:8 As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. (Selah.)

Psm 48:9 Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple.

Psm 48:10 As your name is, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is full of righteousness.

Psm 48:11 Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.

Psm 48:12 Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.

Psm 48:13 Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

Psm 48:14 Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.

Psm 49:1 <Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.> Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

Psm 49:2 High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.

Psm 49:3 From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.

Psm 49:4 I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

Psm 49:5 What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

Psm 49:6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

Psm 49:7 Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

Psm 49:8 (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

Psm 49:9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

Psm 49:10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

Psm 49:11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

Psm 49:12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Psm 49:13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

Psm 49:14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Psm 49:15 But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

Psm 49:16 Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

Psm 49:17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Psm 49:18 Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

Psm 49:19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

Psm 49:20 Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Psm 50:1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Psm 50:2 From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.

Psm 50:3 Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him.

Psm 50:4 His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people:

Psm 50:5 Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.

Psm 50:6 And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.)

Psm 50:7 Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.

Psm 50:8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.

Psm 50:9 I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;

Psm 50:10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

Psm 50:11 I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.

Psm 50:12 If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.

Psm 50:13 Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?

Psm 50:14 Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

Psm 50:15 Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

Psm 50:16 But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?

Psm 50:17 Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

Psm 50:18 When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

Psm 50:19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

Psm 50:20 You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.

Psm 50:21 These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

Psm 50:22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

Psm 50:23 Whoever makes an offering of praise gives glory to me; and to him who is upright in his ways I will make clear the salvation of God.

Psm 51:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Psm 51:2 Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Psm 51:3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

Psm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Psm 51:5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Psm 51:6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psm 51:7 Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Psm 51:8 Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

Psm 51:9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

Psm 51:10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

Psm 51:11 Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

Psm 51:12 Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

Psm 51:13 Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.

Psm 51:14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

Psm 51:15 O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

Psm 51:16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

Psm 51:17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

Psm 51:18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

Psm 51:19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

Psm 52:1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

Psm 52:2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

Psm 52:3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

Psm 52:4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

Psm 52:5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

Psm 52:6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

Psm 52:7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

Psm 52:8 But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

Psm 52:9 I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

Psm 53:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Psm 53:2 God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Psm 53:3 Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Psm 53:4 Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Psm 53:5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

Psm 53:6 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

Psm 54:1 <To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us?> Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength.

Psm 54:2 Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

Psm 54:3 For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

Psm 54:4 See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.

Psm 54:5 Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

Psm 54:6 Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.

Psm 54:7 Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

Psm 55:1 <To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

Psm 55:2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

Psm 55:3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

Psm 55:4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

Psm 55:5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

Psm 55:6 And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Psm 55:7 I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

Psm 55:8 I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.

Psm 55:9 Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

Psm 55:10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

Psm 55:11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

Psm 55:12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

Psm 55:13 But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

Psm 55:14 We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

Psm 55:15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

Psm 55:16 As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

Psm 55:17 In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

Psm 55:18 He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

Psm 55:19 God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

Psm 55:20 He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

Psm 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

Psm 55:22 Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

Psm 55:23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Psm 56:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

Psm 56:2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

Psm 56:3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

Psm 56:4 In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

Psm 56:5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psm 56:6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

Psm 56:7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

Psm 56:8 You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

Psm 56:9 When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.

Psm 56:10 In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.

Psm 56:11 In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

Psm 56:12 I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.

Psm 56:13 Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

Psm 57:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

Psm 57:2 I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.

Psm 57:3 He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

Psm 57:4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

Psm 57:5 O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

Psm 57:6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

Psm 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.

Psm 57:8 You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

Psm 57:9 I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make songs to you among the nations.

Psm 57:10 For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.

Psm 57:11 Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.

Psm 58:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.> Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

Psm 58:2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Psm 58:3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

Psm 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Psm 58:5 Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.

Psm 58:6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

Psm 58:7 Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Psm 58:8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Psm 58:9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Psm 58:10 The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.

Psm 58:11 So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.

Psm 59:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death.> Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.

Psm 59:2 Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

Psm 59:3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

Psm 59:4 For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

Psm 59:5 You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

Psm 59:6 They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

Psm 59:7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

Psm 59:8 But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

Psm 59:9 O my strength, I will put my hope in you; because God is my strong tower.

Psm 59:10 The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

Psm 59:11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Psm 59:12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

Psm 59:13 Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

Psm 59:14 And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

Psm 59:15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

Psm 59:16 But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

Psm 59:17 To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.

Psm 60:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

Psm 60:2 By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

Psm 60:3 You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

Psm 60:4 Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Psm 60:5 So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.

Psm 60:6 God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.

Psm 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

Psm 60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.

Psm 60:9 Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?

Psm 60:10 Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

Psm 60:11 Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

Psm 60:12 Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

Psm 61:1 <To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David.> Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

Psm 61:2 From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

Psm 61:3 For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

Psm 61:4 I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

Psm 61:5 For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

Psm 61:6 You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.

Psm 61:7 May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.

Psm 61:8 So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.

Psm 62:1 <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.

Psm 62:2 He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

Psm 62:3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

Psm 62:4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

Psm 62:5 My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.

Psm 62:6 He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

Psm 62:7 In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

Psm 62:8 Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

Psm 62:9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Psm 62:10 Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Psm 62:11 Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

Psm 62:12 And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.

Psm 63:1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Psm 63:2 To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.

Psm 63:3 Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

Psm 63:4 So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.

Psm 63:5 My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;

Psm 63:6 When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

Psm 63:7 Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

Psm 63:8 My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.

Psm 63:9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

Psm 63:10 They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.

Psm 63:11 But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.

Psm 64:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

Psm 64:2 Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

Psm 64:3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Psm 64:4 So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

Psm 64:5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

Psm 64:6 Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

Psm 64:7 But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

Psm 64:8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

Psm 64:9 And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.

Psm 64:10 The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory.

Psm 65:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song.> It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.

Psm 65:2 To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.

Psm 65:3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

Psm 65:4 Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

Psm 65:5 You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;

Psm 65:6 The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

Psm 65:7 Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

Psm 65:8 Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

Psm 65:9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

Psm 65:10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

Psm 65:11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,

Psm 65:12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

Psm 65:13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

Psm 66:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm.> Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:

Psm 66:2 Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him.

Psm 66:3 Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.

Psm 66:4 Let all the earth give you worship, and make songs to you; let them make songs to your name. (Selah.)

Psm 66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.

Psm 66:6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

Psm 66:7 He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)

Psm 66:8 Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud;

Psm 66:9 Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.

Psm 66:10 For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

Psm 66:11 You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

Psm 66:12 You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

Psm 66:13 I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,

Psm 66:14 Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.

Psm 66:15 I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)

Psm 66:16 Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.

Psm 66:17 My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.

Psm 66:18 I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

Psm 66:19 But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

Psm 66:20 Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.

Psm 67:1 <To the chief music-maker. With corded instruments. A Psalm. A Song.> May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)

Psm 67:2 So that men may see your way on the earth, and your salvation among all nations.

Psm 67:3 Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise.

Psm 67:4 O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)

Psm 67:5 Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise.

Psm 67:6 The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.

Psm 67:7 God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.

Psm 68:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.> Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.

Psm 68:2 Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

Psm 68:3 But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

Psm 68:4 Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

Psm 68:5 A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

Psm 68:6 Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

Psm 68:7 O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)

Psm 68:8 The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.

Psm 68:9 You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.

Psm 68:10 Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.

Psm 68:11 The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.

Psm 68:12 Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.

Psm 68:13 Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

Psm 68:14 When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon.

Psm 68:15 A hill of God is the hill of Bashan; a hill with high tops is the hill of Bashan.

Psm 68:16 Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

Psm 68:17 The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.

Psm 68:18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

Psm 68:19 Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)

Psm 68:20 Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

Psm 68:21 The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.

Psm 68:22 The Lord said, I will make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts of the sea;

Psm 68:23 So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.

Psm 68:24 We see your going, O God: even the going of my God, my King, into the holy place.

Psm 68:25 The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments.

Psm 68:26 Give praise to God in the great meeting; even the Lord, you who come from the fountain of Israel.

Psm 68:27 There is little Benjamin ruling them, the chiefs of Judah and their army, the rulers of Zebulun and the rulers of Naphtali.

Psm 68:28 O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us,

Psm 68:29 Out of your Temple in Jerusalem.

Psm 68:30 Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.

Psm 68:31 Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.

Psm 68:32 Make songs to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O make songs of praise to the Lord; (Selah.)

Psm 68:33 To him who goes or the clouds of heaven, the heaven which was from earliest times; he sends out his voice of power.

Psm 68:34 Make clear that strength is God's: he is lifted up over Israel, and his power is in the clouds.

Psm 68:35 O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.

Psm 69:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

Psm 69:2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

Psm 69:3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

Psm 69:4 Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

Psm 69:5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

Psm 69:6 Let not those who have hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of armies: let not those who are waiting for you be made low because of me, O God of Israel.

Psm 69:7 I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

Psm 69:8 I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

Psm 69:9 I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

Psm 69:10 My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

Psm 69:11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

Psm 69:12 I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

Psm 69:13 But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.

Psm 69:14 Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Psm 69:15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

Psm 69:16 Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.

Psm 69:17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

Psm 69:18 Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

Psm 69:19 You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Psm 69:20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

Psm 69:21 They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

Psm 69:22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

Psm 69:23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

Psm 69:24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

Psm 69:25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

Psm 69:26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

Psm 69:27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

Psm 69:28 Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

Psm 69:29 But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

Psm 69:30 I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done.

Psm 69:31 This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

Psm 69:32 The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.

Psm 69:33 For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

Psm 69:34 Let the heavens and the earth give praise to him, the seas, and everything moving in them.

Psm 69:35 For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

Psm 69:36 The seed of his servants will have their part in it, and there the lovers of his name will have rest.

Psm 70:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. To keep in memory.> Let your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord.

Psm 70:2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

Psm 70:3 Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.

Psm 70:4 Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

Psm 70:5 But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

Psm 71:1 In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed.

Psm 71:2 Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

Psm 71:3 Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

Psm 71:4 O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

Psm 71:5 For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

Psm 71:6 You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

Psm 71:7 I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower.

Psm 71:8 My mouth will be full of your praise and glory all the day.

Psm 71:9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

Psm 71:10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

Psm 71:11 Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

Psm 71:12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

Psm 71:13 Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

Psm 71:14 But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

Psm 71:15 My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

Psm 71:16 I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

Psm 71:17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

Psm 71:18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Psm 71:19 Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

Psm 71:20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Psm 71:21 You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

Psm 71:22 I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

Psm 71:23 Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

Psm 71:24 My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

Psm 72:1 <Of Solomon.> Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

Psm 72:2 May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

Psm 72:3 May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.

Psm 72:4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

Psm 72:5 May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.

Psm 72:6 May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

Psm 72:7 In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

Psm 72:8 Let his kingdom be from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

Psm 72:9 Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.

Psm 72:10 Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

Psm 72:11 Yes, let all kings go down before him; let all nations be his servants.

Psm 72:12 For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

Psm 72:13 He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

Psm 72:14 He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.

Psm 72:15 May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day.

Psm 72:16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

Psm 72:17 May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

Psm 72:18 Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders.

Psm 72:19 Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

Psm 72:20 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. <A Psalm. Of Asaph.>

Psm 73:1 Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

Psm 73:2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

Psm 73:3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

Psm 73:4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

Psm 73:5 They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

Psm 73:6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Psm 73:7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

Psm 73:8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

Psm 73:9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

Psm 73:10 For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

Psm 73:11 And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

Psm 73:12 Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

Psm 73:13 As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

Psm 73:14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

Psm 73:15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

Psm 73:16 When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

Psm 73:17 Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

Psm 73:18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Psm 73:19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

Psm 73:20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

Psm 73:21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

Psm 73:22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Psm 73:23 But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

Psm 73:24 Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

Psm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

Psm 73:26 My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

Psm 73:27 For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

Psm 73:28 But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.

Psm 74:1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

Psm 74:2 Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

Psm 74:3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Psm 74:4 Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

Psm 74:5 They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

Psm 74:6 Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

Psm 74:7 They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

Psm 74:8 They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

Psm 74:9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

Psm 74:10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Psm 74:11 Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

Psm 74:12 For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth.

Psm 74:13 The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

Psm 74:14 The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

Psm 74:15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

Psm 74:16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

Psm 74:17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

Psm 74:18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Psm 74:19 O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.

Psm 74:20 Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

Psm 74:21 O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

Psm 74:22 Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

Psm 74:23 Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.

Psm 75:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.> To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.

Psm 75:2 When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.

Psm 75:3 When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

Psm 75:4 I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

Psm 75:5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

Psm 75:6 For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;

Psm 75:7 But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

Psm 75:8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

Psm 75:9 But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.

Psm 75:10 By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

Psm 76:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Neginoth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.> In Judah is the knowledge of God; his name is great in Israel,

Psm 76:2 In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.

Psm 76:3 There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)

Psm 76:4 You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.

Psm 76:5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

Psm 76:6 At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

Psm 76:7 You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

Psm 76:8 From heaven you gave your decision; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,

Psm 76:9 When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

Psm 76:10 The ... will give you praise; the rest of ...

Psm 76:11 Give to the Lord your God what is his by right; let all who are round him give offerings to him who is to be feared.

Psm 76:12 He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

Psm 77:1 <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

Psm 77:2 In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

Psm 77:3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

Psm 77:4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

Psm 77:5 My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

Psm 77:6 The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

Psm 77:7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?

Psm 77:8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

Psm 77:9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

Psm 77:10 And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

Psm 77:11 I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.

Psm 77:12 I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power.

Psm 77:13 Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God?

Psm 77:14 You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.

Psm 77:15 With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)

Psm 77:16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

Psm 77:17 The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide.

Psm 77:18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

Psm 77:19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

Psm 77:20 You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psm 78:1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

Psm 78:2 Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

Psm 78:3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

Psm 78:4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

Psm 78:5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

Psm 78:6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

Psm 78:7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

Psm 78:8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

Psm 78:9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

Psm 78:10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

Psm 78:11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

Psm 78:12 He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

Psm 78:13 The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

Psm 78:14 In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

Psm 78:15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

Psm 78:16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

Psm 78:17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

Psm 78:18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

Psm 78:19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

Psm 78:20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

Psm 78:21 So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel;

Psm 78:22 Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

Psm 78:23 And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;

Psm 78:24 And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

Psm 78:25 Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure.

Psm 78:26 He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.

Psm 78:27 He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

Psm 78:28 And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

Psm 78:29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

Psm 78:30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

Psm 78:31 The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

Psm 78:32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

Psm 78:33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

Psm 78:34 When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

Psm 78:35 In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

Psm 78:36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

Psm 78:37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

Psm 78:38 But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

Psm 78:39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

Psm 78:40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

Psm 78:41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

Psm 78:42 They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

Psm 78:43 How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

Psm 78:44 So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

Psm 78:45 He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.

Psm 78:46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

Psm 78:47 He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

Psm 78:48 Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

Psm 78:49 He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

Psm 78:50 He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

Psm 78:51 He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

Psm 78:52 But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

Psm 78:53 He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

Psm 78:54 And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

Psm 78:55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

Psm 78:56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Psm 78:57 Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

Psm 78:58 They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

Psm 78:59 When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

Psm 78:60 So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

Psm 78:61 And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

Psm 78:62 He gave his people up to the sword, and was angry with his heritage.

Psm 78:63 Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

Psm 78:64 Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

Psm 78:65 Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

Psm 78:66 His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

Psm 78:67 And he put the tent of Joseph on one side, and took not the tribe of Ephraim;

Psm 78:68 But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

Psm 78:69 And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

Psm 78:70 He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

Psm 78:71 From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

Psm 78:72 So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.

Psm 79:1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

Psm 79:2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

Psm 79:3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

Psm 79:4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

Psm 79:5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

Psm 79:6 Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.

Psm 79:7 For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.

Psm 79:8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

Psm 79:9 Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.

Psm 79:10 Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

Psm 79:11 Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;

Psm 79:12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

Psm 79:13 So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

Psm 80:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

Psm 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

Psm 80:3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

Psm 80:4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

Psm 80:5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Psm 80:6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Psm 80:7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

Psm 80:8 You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

Psm 80:9 You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

Psm 80:10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

Psm 80:11 It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

Psm 80:12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

Psm 80:13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

Psm 80:14 Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

Psm 80:15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

Psm 80:16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

Psm 80:17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

Psm 80:18 So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

Psm 80:19 Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

Psm 81:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.

Psm 81:2 Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.

Psm 81:3 Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

Psm 81:4 For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

Psm 81:5 He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

Psm 81:6 I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

Psm 81:7 You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

Psm 81:8 Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!

Psm 81:9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

Psm 81:10 I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

Psm 81:11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

Psm 81:12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

Psm 81:13 If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

Psm 81:14 I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.

Psm 81:15 The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.

Psm 81:16 I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

Psm 82:1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Psm 82:2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

Psm 82:3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

Psm 82:4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

Psm 82:5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

Psm 82:6 I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:

Psm 82:7 But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.

Psm 82:8 Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.

Psm 83:1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.

Psm 83:2 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.

Psm 83:3 They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

Psm 83:4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

Psm 83:5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:

Psm 83:6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;

Psm 83:7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;

Psm 83:8 Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)

Psm 83:9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

Psm 83:10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

Psm 83:11 Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:

Psm 83:12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.

Psm 83:13 O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

Psm 83:14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

Psm 83:15 So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.

Psm 83:16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.

Psm 83:17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

Psm 83:18 So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.

Psm 84:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

Psm 84:2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Psm 84:3 The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Psm 84:4 Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

Psm 84:5 Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Psm 84:6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

Psm 84:7 They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

Psm 84:8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

Psm 84:9 O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

Psm 84:10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

Psm 84:11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

Psm 84:12 O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

Psm 85:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.

Psm 85:2 The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

Psm 85:3 You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

Psm 85:4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

Psm 85:5 Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

Psm 85:6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

Psm 85:7 Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation.

Psm 85:8 I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.

Psm 85:9 Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.

Psm 85:10 Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

Psm 85:11 Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

Psm 85:12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase.

Psm 85:13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

Psm 86:1 <A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

Psm 86:2 Keep my soul, for I am true to you; O my God, give salvation to your servant, whose hope is in you.

Psm 86:3 Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.

Psm 86:4 Make glad the soul of your servant; for it is lifted up to you, O Lord.

Psm 86:5 You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Psm 86:6 O Lord, give ear to my prayer; and take note of the sound of my requests.

Psm 86:7 In the day of my trouble I send up my cry to you; for you will give me an answer.

Psm 86:8 There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.

Psm 86:9 Let all the nations whom you have made come and give worship to you, O Lord, giving glory to your name.

Psm 86:10 For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.

Psm 86:11 Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name.

Psm 86:12 I will give you praise, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will give glory to your name for ever.

Psm 86:13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

Psm 86:14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

Psm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Psm 86:16 O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant.

Psm 86:17 Give me a sign for good; so that my haters may see it and be shamed; because you, Lord, have been my help and comfort.

Psm 87:1 <Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.> This house is resting on the holy mountain.

Psm 87:2 The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

Psm 87:3 Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

Psm 87:4 Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

Psm 87:5 And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

Psm 87:6 The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)

Psm 87:7 The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.

Psm 88:1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Psm 88:2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

Psm 88:3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

Psm 88:4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

Psm 88:5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

Psm 88:6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

Psm 88:7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

Psm 88:8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

Psm 88:9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

Psm 88:10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

Psm 88:11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

Psm 88:12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

Psm 88:13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

Psm 88:14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

Psm 88:15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

Psm 88:16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

Psm 88:17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

Psm 88:18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

Psm 89:1 <Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.

Psm 89:2 For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

Psm 89:3 I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;

Psm 89:4 I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)

Psm 89:5 In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.

Psm 89:6 For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

Psm 89:7 God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

Psm 89:8 O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

Psm 89:9 You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

Psm 89:10 Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

Psm 89:11 Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

Psm 89:12 You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

Psm 89:13 Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.

Psm 89:14 The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Psm 89:15 Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

Psm 89:16 In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

Psm 89:17 For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

Psm 89:18 For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

Psm 89:19 Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.

Psm 89:20 I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.

Psm 89:21 My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength.

Psm 89:22 The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

Psm 89:23 I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

Psm 89:24 But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up.

Psm 89:25 I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

Psm 89:26 He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

Psm 89:27 And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.

Psm 89:28 I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.

Psm 89:29 His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.

Psm 89:30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

Psm 89:31 If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

Psm 89:32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

Psm 89:33 But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith.

Psm 89:34 I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

Psm 89:35 I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.

Psm 89:36 His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

Psm 89:37 It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)

Psm 89:38 But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

Psm 89:39 You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

Psm 89:40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

Psm 89:41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

Psm 89:42 You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

Psm 89:43 His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

Psm 89:44 You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

Psm 89:45 You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

Psm 89:46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

Psm 89:47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Psm 89:48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

Psm 89:49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

Psm 89:50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

Psm 89:51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

Psm 89:52 Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.

Psm 90:1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

Psm 90:2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

Psm 90:3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

Psm 90:4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

Psm 90:5 ...

Psm 90:6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

Psm 90:7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

Psm 90:8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

Psm 90:9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

Psm 90:10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Psm 90:11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

Psm 90:12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psm 90:13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

Psm 90:14 In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

Psm 90:15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

Psm 90:16 Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

Psm 90:17 Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.

Psm 91:1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Psm 91:2 Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

Psm 91:3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

Psm 91:4 You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

Psm 91:5 You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Psm 91:6 Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Psm 91:7 You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

Psm 91:8 Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.

Psm 91:9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

Psm 91:10 No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

Psm 91:11 For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

Psm 91:12 In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

Psm 91:13 You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

Psm 91:14 Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

Psm 91:15 When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

Psm 91:16 With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

Psm 92:1 <A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.> It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;

Psm 92:2 To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;

Psm 92:3 On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.

Psm 92:4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

Psm 92:5 O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

Psm 92:6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

Psm 92:7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

Psm 92:8 But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.

Psm 92:9 For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;

Psm 92:10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.

Psm 92:11 My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.

Psm 92:12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

Psm 92:13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

Psm 92:14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

Psm 92:15 For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

Psm 93:1 The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

Psm 93:2 The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

Psm 93:3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

Psm 93:4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

Psm 93:5 Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.

Psm 94:1 O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

Psm 94:2 Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

Psm 94:3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Psm 94:4 Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

Psm 94:5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

Psm 94:6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Psm 94:7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

Psm 94:8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Psm 94:9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

Psm 94:10 He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

Psm 94:11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

Psm 94:12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

Psm 94:13 So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

Psm 94:14 The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

Psm 94:15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

Psm 94:16 Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

Psm 94:17 If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

Psm 94:18 If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

Psm 94:19 Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

Psm 94:20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

Psm 94:21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

Psm 94:22 But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.

Psm 94:23 And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

Psm 95:1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.

Psm 95:2 Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.

Psm 95:3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.

Psm 95:4 The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.

Psm 95:5 The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

Psm 95:6 O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

Psm 95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

Psm 95:8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

Psm 95:9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

Psm 95:10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

Psm 95:11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

Psm 96:1 O make a new song to the Lord; let all the earth make melody to the Lord.

Psm 96:2 Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day.

Psm 96:3 Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.

Psm 96:4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods.

Psm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Psm 96:6 Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

Psm 96:7 Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.

Psm 96:8 Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come into his house.

Psm 96:9 O give worship to the Lord in holy robes; be in fear before him, all the earth.

Psm 96:10 Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.

Psm 96:11 Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

Psm 96:12 Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

Psm 96:13 Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

Psm 97:1 The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Psm 97:2 Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

Psm 97:3 Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.

Psm 97:4 His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.

Psm 97:5 The mountains became like wax at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the Lord of all the earth.

Psm 97:6 The heavens gave out the news of his righteousness, and all the people saw his glory.

Psm 97:7 Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.

Psm 97:8 Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.

Psm 97:9 For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.

Psm 97:10 You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

Psm 97:11 Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

Psm 97:12 Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

Psm 98:1 <A Psalm.> O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.

Psm 98:2 The Lord has given to all the knowledge of his salvation; he has made clear his righteousness in the eyes of the nations.

Psm 98:3 He has kept in mind his mercy and his unchanging faith to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psm 98:4 Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.

Psm 98:5 Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song.

Psm 98:6 With wind instruments and the sound of the horn, make a glad cry before the Lord, the King.

Psm 98:7 Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it;

Psm 98:8 Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,

Psm 98:9 Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.

Psm 99:1 The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.

Psm 99:2 The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations.

Psm 99:3 Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he.

Psm 99:4 The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

Psm 99:5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

Psm 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who gave honour to his name; they made prayers to the Lord, and he gave answers to them.

Psm 99:7 His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

Psm 99:8 You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

Psm 99:9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Psm 100:1 <A Psalm of Praise.> Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.

Psm 100:2 Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

Psm 100:3 Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

Psm 100:4 Come into his doors with joy, and into his house with praise; give him honour, blessing his name.

Psm 100:5 For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.

Psm 101:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.

Psm 101:2 I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.

Psm 101:3 I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

Psm 101:4 The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend.

Psm 101:5 I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.

Psm 101:6 My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant.

Psm 101:7 The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

Psm 101:8 Morning by morning will I put to death all the sinners in the land, so that all evil-doers may be cut off from Jerusalem.

Psm 102:1 <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.

Psm 102:2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.

Psm 102:3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

Psm 102:4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

Psm 102:5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

Psm 102:6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

Psm 102:7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.

Psm 102:8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

Psm 102:9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

Psm 102:10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

Psm 102:11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

Psm 102:12 But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.

Psm 102:13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.

Psm 102:14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.

Psm 102:15 So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:

Psm 102:16 When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;

Psm 102:17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.

Psm 102:18 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.

Psm 102:19 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;

Psm 102:20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;

Psm 102:21 So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Psm 102:22 When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.

Psm 102:23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

Psm 102:24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

Psm 102:25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Psm 102:26 They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

Psm 102:27 But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.

Psm 102:28 The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.

Psm 103:1 <Of David.> Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name.

Psm 103:2 Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.

Psm 103:3 He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;