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For he shall not be moved for ever; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him a rod each, for one chief a rod, according to the house of their families, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was in the midst of the rods.

In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

It is he that builds his ascent up to the sky, and establishes his promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is his name.

And if thou shouldest come upon a brood of birds before thy face in the way or upon any tree, or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be brooding on the young or the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young ones.

The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?

Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; and will produce right sayings from my lips.

And David and his men, departed to Jerusalem, to the Jebusite that inhabited the land: and it was said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither: for the blind and the lame withstood him, saying, David shall not come in hither.

Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.

For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,

This do ye: take to yourselves censers, Core and all his company;

For thus saith the Lord concerning the house of the king of Juda; Thou art Galaad to me, and the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a desert, even cities that shall not be inhabited:

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

He has declared to his people the power of his works, to give them the inheritance of the heathen.

And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.

Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.

Be strong and 'quit thyself like a man, for thou shalt divide the land to this people, which I sware to give to your fathers.

Thy right hand, O God, has been glorified in strength; thy right hand, O God, has broken the enemies.

And Saul heard that David was discovered, and his men with him: now Saul dwelt in the hill below the field that is in Rama, and his spear was in his hand, and all his servants stood near him.

And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.

let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.

And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

And for a ram, when ye offer it as a whole-burnt-offering or as a sacrifice, thou shalt prepare as a meat-offering two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, the third part of a hin.

Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God; and the Lord thy God chose thee to be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that are upon the face of the earth.

And thou shalt keep the commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth of the sons of Jakim to Misadai: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son was priest in his stead.

Exalt and rejoice, ye that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.

And the land was not large enough for them to live together, because their possessions were great; and the land was not large enough for them to live together.

And thou shalt utterly destroy the house of Achaab thy master from before me, and shalt avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel,

And Joshua the son of Naue went in to the priests, and spoke to them, saying,

Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow at this time I will put them to flight before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire

And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

And the kinsman said, I shall not be able to redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance; do thou redeem my right for thyself, for I shall not be able to redeem it.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.

Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

and yet looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth:

So Pharao yoked his chariots, and led off all his people with himself:

But Joshua the son of Naue, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, of the number of them that spied out the land, rent their garments,

For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.

Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.

And the borders will proceed to the sea to Icasmon north of Therma; they will go round eastward to Thenasa, and Selles, and will pass on eastward to Janoca,

For the daughters of the sons of Manasse inherited a portion in the midst of their brethren, and the land of Galaad was assigned to the remainder of the sons of Manasse.

My soul has long been a sojourner;

And ye too know that with all my might I have served your father.

And he shall leave them together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea.

They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee.

Of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri.

I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

And Joab went in to the king, into the house, and said, Thou hast this day shamed the faces of all thy servants that have delivered thee this day, and have saved the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and of thy concubines,

Six days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a feast to the Lord.

And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee; only save his life.

And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.

whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, to have his name called there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when thou camest out of Egypt.

Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will he by any means forsake thee, nor desert thee.

I went forth to meet the Philistine; and he cursed me by his idols.

And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be saved?

And these words, all that I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart and in thy soul.

And the Philistines said, Who has done these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.

Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron.

And, behold, the porter of the house winnowed wheat, and he slumbered and slept: and the brothers Rechab and Baana went privily into the house:

He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth.

And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.

therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which neither ye nor your fathers have known; and ye shall serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.

and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts.

And Saul took his spear and said, I will smite David even to the wall. But David escaped twice from his presence.

And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.

Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord.

In all thy ways acquaint thyself with her, that she may rightly direct thy paths.

Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.

Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

And ye shall sound a second alarm, and the camps pitched southward shall move; and ye shall sound a third alarm, and the camps pitched westward shall move forward; and ye shall sound a fourth alarm, and they that encamp toward the north shall move forward: they shall sound an alarm at their departure.

And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities.

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Madiam.

Set thou a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand.

And it came to pass on a day, that behold, the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them.

Though he should come on me in his great strength, then he would not threaten me;

And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land.

All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices are against me for evil.

And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to king Jarim: Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel.

And the king of Syria was at war with Israel: and he consulted with his servants, saying, I will encamp in such a place.

And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it toward evening.

For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding,