{ "translation": "Webster's Bible", "abbreviation": "wb", "discription": "Webster Bible", "lang": "en", "language": "English", "direction": "LTR", "encoding": "", "books": [ { "nr": 1, "name": "Genesis", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Genesis 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 1:1", "text": "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 1:2", "text": "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 1:3", "text": "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 1:4", "text": "And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 1:5", "text": "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 1:6", "text": "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 1:7", "text": "And God made the firmament; and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 1:8", "text": "And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 1:9", "text": "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 1:10", "text": "And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the collection of waters he called Seas: and God saw that it [was] good." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 1:11", "text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 1:12", "text": "And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it [was] good." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 1:13", "text": "And the evening and the morning were the third day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 1:14", "text": "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 1:15", "text": "And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 1:16", "text": "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 1:17", "text": "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 1:18", "text": "And to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it [was] good." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 1:19", "text": "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 1:20", "text": "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 1:21", "text": "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 1:22", "text": "And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 1:23", "text": "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 1:24", "text": "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and the creeping animal, and the beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 1:25", "text": "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 1:26", "text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 1:27", "text": "So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 1:28", "text": "And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living animal that moveth upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 1:29", "text": "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 1:30", "text": "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every animal that creepeth upon the earth, in which [is] life, [I have given] every green herb for food: and it was so." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 1:31", "text": "And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Genesis 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 2:1", "text": "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 2:2", "text": "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 2:3", "text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 2:4", "text": "These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 2:5", "text": "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 2:6", "text": "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 2:7", "text": "And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 2:8", "text": "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 2:9", "text": "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 2:10", "text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden: and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 2:11", "text": "The name of the first [is] Pison, which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 2:12", "text": "And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx-stone." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 2:13", "text": "And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same that compasseth the whole land of Cush." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 2:14", "text": "And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: which floweth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 2:15", "text": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 2:16", "text": "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 2:17", "text": "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 2:18", "text": "And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 2:19", "text": "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought [them] to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] its name." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 2:20", "text": "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowls of the air, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 2:21", "text": "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 2:22", "text": "And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, he made woman, and brought her to the man." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 2:23", "text": "And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 2:24", "text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 2:25", "text": "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Genesis 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 3:1", "text": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 3:2", "text": "And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 3:3", "text": "But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 3:4", "text": "And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 3:5", "text": "For God doth know, that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened: and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 3:6", "text": "And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise; she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 3:7", "text": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked: and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made for themselves aprons." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 3:8", "text": "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 3:9", "text": "And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where [art] thou?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 3:10", "text": "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 3:11", "text": "And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 3:12", "text": "And the man said, The woman, whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 3:13", "text": "And the LORD God said to the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 3:14", "text": "And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 3:15", "text": "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 3:16", "text": "To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 3:17", "text": "And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 3:18", "text": "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 3:19", "text": "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and to dust shalt thou return." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 3:20", "text": "And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 3:21", "text": "For Adam also and for his wife the LORD God made coats of skins, and clothed them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 3:22", "text": "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man hath become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 3:23", "text": "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 3:24", "text": "So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Genesis 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 4:1", "text": "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 4:2", "text": "And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 4:3", "text": "And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 4:4", "text": "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel, and to his offering:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 4:5", "text": "But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 4:6", "text": "And the LORD said to Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 4:7", "text": "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And to thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 4:8", "text": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 4:9", "text": "And the LORD said to Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 4:10", "text": "And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 4:11", "text": "And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 4:12", "text": "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 4:13", "text": "And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 4:14", "text": "Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it will come to pass, [that] every one that findeth me will slay me." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 4:15", "text": "And the LORD said to him, Therefore whoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 4:16", "text": "And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 4:17", "text": "And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son Enoch." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 4:18", "text": "And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 4:19", "text": "And Lamech took to him two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 4:20", "text": "And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 4:21", "text": "And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 4:22", "text": "And Zillah, she also bore Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 4:23", "text": "And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 4:24", "text": "If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 4:25", "text": "And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 4:26", "text": "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Genesis 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 5:1", "text": "This [is] the book of the generations of Adam: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 5:2", "text": "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 5:3", "text": "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 5:4", "text": "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 5:5", "text": "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 5:6", "text": "And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 5:7", "text": "And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 5:8", "text": "And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 5:9", "text": "And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 5:10", "text": "And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 5:11", "text": "And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 5:12", "text": "And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 5:13", "text": "And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 5:14", "text": "And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 5:15", "text": "And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 5:16", "text": "And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 5:17", "text": "And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 5:18", "text": "And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 5:19", "text": "And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 5:20", "text": "And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 5:21", "text": "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 5:22", "text": "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 5:23", "text": "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 5:24", "text": "And Enoch walked with God, and he [was] not: for God took him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 5:25", "text": "And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 5:26", "text": "And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 5:27", "text": "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 5:28", "text": "And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years; and begat a son:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 5:29", "text": "And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 5:30", "text": "And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 5:31", "text": "And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years; and he died." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 5:32", "text": "And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Genesis 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 6:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 6:2", "text": "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all whom they chose." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 6:3", "text": "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 6:4", "text": "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore [children] to them: the same [became] mighty men, who [were] of old, men of renown." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 6:5", "text": "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 6:6", "text": "And the LORD repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 6:7", "text": "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping animal, and the fowls of the air; for I repent that I have made them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 6:8", "text": "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 6:9", "text": "These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 6:10", "text": "And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 6:11", "text": "The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 6:12", "text": "And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 6:13", "text": "And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and behold, I will destroy them with the earth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 6:14", "text": "Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 6:15", "text": "And this [is the fashion] in which thou shalt make it: the length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the hight of it thirty cubits." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 6:16", "text": "A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 6:17", "text": "And behold, I, even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which [is] the breath of life, from under heaven: [and] every thing that [is] on the earth shall die." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 6:18", "text": "But with thee will I establish my covenant: and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 6:19", "text": "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee: they shall be male and female." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 6:20", "text": "Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping animal of the earth after its kind, two of every [sort] shall come to thee, to keep [them] alive." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 6:21", "text": "And take thou to thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 6:22", "text": "Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Genesis 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 7:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 7:2", "text": "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 7:3", "text": "Of fowls of the air also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 7:4", "text": "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 7:5", "text": "And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 7:6", "text": "And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 7:7", "text": "And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 7:8", "text": "Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every animal that creepeth upon the earth;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 7:9", "text": "There went in two and two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 7:10", "text": "And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 7:11", "text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 7:12", "text": "And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 7:13", "text": "In the same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 7:14", "text": "They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 7:15", "text": "And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which [is] the breath of life." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 7:16", "text": "And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 7:17", "text": "And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 7:18", "text": "And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth: and the ark moved upon the face of the waters." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 7:19", "text": "And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that [were] under the whole heaven were covered." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 7:20", "text": "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 7:21", "text": "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 7:22", "text": "All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] on the dry [land], died." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 7:23", "text": "And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping animals, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 7:24", "text": "And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Genesis 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 8:1", "text": "And God remembered Noah, and every living animal, and all the cattle that [were] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were checked." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 8:2", "text": "The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 8:3", "text": "And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 8:4", "text": "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 8:5", "text": "And the waters decreased continually, till the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 8:6", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 8:7", "text": "And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, till the waters were dried from off the earth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 8:8", "text": "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 8:9", "text": "But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 8:10", "text": "And he stayed yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 8:11", "text": "And the dove came in to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth [was] an olive-leaf plucked off: So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 8:12", "text": "And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to him any more." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 8:13", "text": "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 8:14", "text": "And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 8:15", "text": "And God spoke to Noah, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 8:16", "text": "Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 8:17", "text": "Bring forth with thee every living animal that [is] with thee, of all flesh, of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 8:18", "text": "And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 8:19", "text": "Every beast, every creeping animal, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 8:20", "text": "And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 8:21", "text": "And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every living animal as I have done." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 8:22", "text": "While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Genesis 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 9:1", "text": "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 9:2", "text": "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [on] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 9:3", "text": "Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 9:4", "text": "But flesh with the life of it, [which is] its blood, shall ye not eat." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 9:5", "text": "And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 9:6", "text": "Whoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 9:7", "text": "And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 9:8", "text": "And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 9:9", "text": "And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 9:10", "text": "And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 9:11", "text": "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 9:12", "text": "And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 9:13", "text": "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 9:14", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 9:15", "text": "And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 9:16", "text": "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 9:17", "text": "And God said to Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 9:18", "text": "And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [was] the father of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 9:19", "text": "These three [were] the sons of Noah: and from them was the whole earth overspread." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 9:20", "text": "And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 9:21", "text": "And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 9:22", "text": "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 9:23", "text": "And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 9:24", "text": "And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 9:25", "text": "And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 9:26", "text": "And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 9:27", "text": "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 9:28", "text": "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 9:29", "text": "And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Genesis 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 10:1", "text": "Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 10:2", "text": "The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 10:3", "text": "And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 10:4", "text": "And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 10:5", "text": "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 10:6", "text": "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 10:7", "text": "And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and Dedan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 10:8", "text": "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 10:9", "text": "He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 10:10", "text": "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 10:11", "text": "Out of that land went forth Ashur, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 10:12", "text": "And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 10:13", "text": "And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 10:14", "text": "And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 10:15", "text": "And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 10:16", "text": "And the Jebusite, and the Emorite, and the Girgasite," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 10:17", "text": "And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 10:18", "text": "And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites dispersed." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 10:19", "text": "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, to Gaza; as thou goest to Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lashah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 10:20", "text": "These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 10:21", "text": "To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 10:22", "text": "The children of Shem; Elam, and Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 10:23", "text": "And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 10:24", "text": "And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 10:25", "text": "And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 10:26", "text": "And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 10:27", "text": "And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 10:28", "text": "And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 10:29", "text": "And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 10:30", "text": "And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest to Sephar, a mount of the east." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 10:31", "text": "These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 10:32", "text": "These [are] the families of the sons of Noah after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Genesis 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 11:1", "text": "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 11:2", "text": "And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 11:3", "text": "And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 11:4", "text": "And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 11:5", "text": "And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 11:6", "text": "And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 11:7", "text": "Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 11:8", "text": "So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 11:9", "text": "Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 11:10", "text": "These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 11:11", "text": "And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 11:12", "text": "And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 11:13", "text": "And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 11:14", "text": "And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 11:15", "text": "And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 11:16", "text": "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 11:17", "text": "And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 11:18", "text": "And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 11:19", "text": "And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 11:20", "text": "And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 11:21", "text": "And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 11:22", "text": "And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 11:23", "text": "And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 11:24", "text": "And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 11:25", "text": "And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 11:26", "text": "And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 11:27", "text": "Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 11:28", "text": "And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 11:29", "text": "And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 11:30", "text": "But Sarai [was] barren; she had no child." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 11:31", "text": "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 11:32", "text": "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Genesis 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 12:1", "text": "Now the LORD had said to Abram, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to a land that I will show thee:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 12:2", "text": "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 12:3", "text": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 12:4", "text": "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed from Haran." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 12:5", "text": "And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went to go forth into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 12:6", "text": "And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 12:7", "text": "And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To thy seed will I give this land: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 12:8", "text": "And he removed from thence to a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, [having] Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 12:9", "text": "And Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 12:10", "text": "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 12:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair woman to look upon:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 12:12", "text": "Therefore it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This [is] his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 12:13", "text": "Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 12:14", "text": "And it came to pass, that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 12:15", "text": "The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 12:16", "text": "And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 12:17", "text": "And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 12:18", "text": "And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that] thou hast done to me? why didst thou not tell me that she [is] thy wife?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 12:19", "text": "Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take [her], and go thy way." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 12:20", "text": "And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Genesis 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 13:1", "text": "And Abram returned from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 13:2", "text": "And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 13:3", "text": "And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 13:4", "text": "To the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 13:5", "text": "And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 13:6", "text": "And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 13:7", "text": "And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 13:8", "text": "And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [are] brethren." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 13:9", "text": "[Is] not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou wilt depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 13:10", "text": "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest to Zoar." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 13:11", "text": "Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 13:12", "text": "Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent towards Sodom." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 13:13", "text": "But the men of Sodom [were] wicked, and sinners before the LORD, exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 13:14", "text": "And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 13:15", "text": "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 13:16", "text": "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 13:17", "text": "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 13:18", "text": "Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Genesis 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 14:1", "text": "And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 14:2", "text": "[That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 14:3", "text": "All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 14:4", "text": "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 14:5", "text": "And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 14:6", "text": "And the Horites in their mount Seir, to El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 14:7", "text": "And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which [is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 14:8", "text": "And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 14:9", "text": "With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 14:10", "text": "And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 14:11", "text": "And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 14:12", "text": "And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 14:13", "text": "And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] confederate with Abram." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 14:14", "text": "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] to Dan." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 14:15", "text": "And he divided himself against them, he and his servants by night, and smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, which [is] on the left hand of Damascus." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 14:16", "text": "And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 14:17", "text": "And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's dale." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 14:18", "text": "And Melchisedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 14:19", "text": "And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 14:20", "text": "And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 14:21", "text": "And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 14:22", "text": "And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted my hand to the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 14:23", "text": "That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 14:24", "text": "Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Genesis 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 15:1", "text": "After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 15:2", "text": "And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 15:3", "text": "And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is my heir." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 15:4", "text": "And behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thy heir; but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 15:5", "text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 15:6", "text": "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 15:7", "text": "And he said to him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 15:8", "text": "And he said, Lord GOD, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 15:9", "text": "And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 15:10", "text": "And he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds he did not divide." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 15:11", "text": "And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 15:12", "text": "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 15:13", "text": "And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 15:14", "text": "And also that nation which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 15:15", "text": "And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 15:16", "text": "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 15:17", "text": "And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 15:18", "text": "In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 15:19", "text": "The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 15:20", "text": "And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 15:21", "text": "And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Genesis 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 16:1", "text": "Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 16:2", "text": "And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee go in to my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 16:3", "text": "And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 16:4", "text": "And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 16:5", "text": "And Sarai said to Abram, my wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 16:6", "text": "But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 16:7", "text": "And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 16:8", "text": "And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 16:9", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 16:10", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 16:11", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to her, Behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 16:12", "text": "And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 16:13", "text": "And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 16:14", "text": "Wherefore the well was called Beer-la-hai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and Bered." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 16:15", "text": "And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 16:16", "text": "And Abram [was] eighty six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Genesis 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 17:1", "text": "And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 17:2", "text": "And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 17:3", "text": "And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 17:4", "text": "As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 17:5", "text": "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 17:6", "text": "And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall proceed from thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 17:7", "text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 17:8", "text": "And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land in which thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 17:9", "text": "And God said to Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their generations." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 17:10", "text": "This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee; Every male-child among you shall be circumcised." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 17:11", "text": "And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 17:12", "text": "And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male-child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, who [is] not of thy seed." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 17:13", "text": "He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 17:14", "text": "And the uncircumcised male-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 17:15", "text": "And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 17:16", "text": "And I will bless her, and give thee a son also by her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings of people shall proceed from her." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 17:17", "text": "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 17:18", "text": "And Abraham said to God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 17:19", "text": "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 17:20", "text": "And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 17:21", "text": "But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 17:22", "text": "And he ceased talking with him, and God went up from Abraham." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 17:23", "text": "And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin, in the same day, as God had said to him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 17:24", "text": "And Abraham [was] ninety and nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 17:25", "text": "And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 17:26", "text": "In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 17:27", "text": "And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Genesis 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 18:1", "text": "And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 18:2", "text": "And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 18:3", "text": "And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 18:4", "text": "Let a little water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 18:5", "text": "And I will bring a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 18:6", "text": "And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [it], and make cakes upon the hearth." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 18:7", "text": "And Abraham ran to the herd, and brought a calf tender and good, and gave [it] to a young man; and he hasted to dress it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 18:8", "text": "And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 18:9", "text": "And they said to him, Where [is] Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 18:10", "text": "And he said, I will certainly return to thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 18:11", "text": "Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] far advanced in age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 18:12", "text": "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 18:13", "text": "And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I certainly bear a child, who am old?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 18:14", "text": "Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return to thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 18:15", "text": "Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 18:16", "text": "And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 18:17", "text": "And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 18:18", "text": "Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 18:19", "text": "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they will keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 18:20", "text": "And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 18:21", "text": "I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 18:22", "text": "And the men turned their faces from thence, and went towards Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 18:23", "text": "And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 18:24", "text": "Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] in it?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 18:25", "text": "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 18:26", "text": "And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 18:27", "text": "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I, who [am] dust and ashes, have taken upon me to speak to the Lord." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 18:28", "text": "Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 18:29", "text": "And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Peradventure there will be forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 18:30", "text": "And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there will thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 18:31", "text": "And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord: Peradventure there will be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 18:32", "text": "And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 18:33", "text": "And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Genesis 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 19:1", "text": "And there came two angels to Sodom at evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot seeing [them], rose to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 19:2", "text": "And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 19:3", "text": "And he urged them greatly; and they turned in to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 19:4", "text": "But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 19:5", "text": "And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where [are] the men who came in to thee this night? bring them out to us, that we may know them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 19:6", "text": "And Lot went out at the door to them, and shut the door after him," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 19:7", "text": "And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 19:8", "text": "Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 19:9", "text": "And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This one [man] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to break the door." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 19:10", "text": "But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut the door." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 19:11", "text": "And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 19:12", "text": "And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this place:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 19:13", "text": "For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has become great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 19:14", "text": "And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Arise, depart from this place; for the LORD will destroy this city: but he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 19:15", "text": "And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 19:16", "text": "And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters: the LORD being merciful to him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 19:17", "text": "And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 19:18", "text": "And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord!" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 19:19", "text": "Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown to me in saving my life: and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil should take me, and I die:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 19:20", "text": "Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it [is] a small one: Oh, let me escape thither! ([Is] it not a small one?) and my soul shall live." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 19:21", "text": "And he said to him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for which thou hast spoken." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 19:22", "text": "Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 19:23", "text": "The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 19:24", "text": "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 19:25", "text": "And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 19:26", "text": "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 19:27", "text": "And Abraham rose early in the morning, to the place were he stood before the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 19:28", "text": "And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 19:29", "text": "And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 19:30", "text": "And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 19:31", "text": "And the first-born said to the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 19:32", "text": "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 19:33", "text": "And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 19:34", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow that the first born said to the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father; let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 19:35", "text": "And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 19:36", "text": "Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 19:37", "text": "And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites to this day." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 19:38", "text": "And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Genesis 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 20:1", "text": "And Abraham journeyed from thence towards the south country, and dwelt between Kadash and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 20:2", "text": "And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, she is my sister: And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 20:3", "text": "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, on account of the woman whom thou hast taken: for she [is] a man's wife." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 20:4", "text": "But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou also slay a righteous nation?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 20:5", "text": "Said he not to me, She [is] my sister? and she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my heart, and innocence of my hands have I done this." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 20:6", "text": "And God said to him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore I suffered thee not to touch her." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 20:7", "text": "Now therefore restore to the man [his] wife, for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou shalt not restore [her], know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that [are] thine." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 20:8", "text": "Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were greatly afraid." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 20:9", "text": "Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What has thou done to us? and in what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds to me that ought not to be done." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 20:10", "text": "And Abimelech said to Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 20:11", "text": "And Abraham said, Because I thought, surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 20:12", "text": "And yet indeed [she is] my sister: she [is] the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 20:13", "text": "And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This [is] thy kindness which thou shalt show to me; At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 20:14", "text": "And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave [them] to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 20:15", "text": "And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 20:16", "text": "And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, to all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: thus she was reproved." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 20:17", "text": "So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore [children]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 20:18", "text": "For the LORD had made barren all the females of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Genesis 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 21:1", "text": "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 21:2", "text": "For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 21:3", "text": "And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 21:4", "text": "And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 21:5", "text": "And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 21:6", "text": "And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 21:7", "text": "And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah shall nurse children? for I have borne him a son in his old age." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 21:8", "text": "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the day that Isaac was weaned." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 21:9", "text": "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne to Abraham, mocking." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 21:10", "text": "Wherefore, she said to Abraham, Cast out this bond-woman, and her son: for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 21:11", "text": "And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 21:12", "text": "And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 21:13", "text": "And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he [is] thy seed." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 21:14", "text": "And Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] to Hagar (putting [it] on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 21:15", "text": "And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 21:16", "text": "And she went, and sat her down over against [him], a good way off, as it were a bow-shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and raised her voice, and wept." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 21:17", "text": "And God heard the voice of the lad: and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he [is]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 21:18", "text": "Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand: for I will make him a great nation." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 21:19", "text": "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water: and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 21:20", "text": "And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 21:21", "text": "And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 21:22", "text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 21:23", "text": "Now therefore swear to me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou hast sojourned." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 21:24", "text": "And Abraham said, I will swear." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 21:25", "text": "And Abraham reproved Abimelech, because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 21:26", "text": "And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet have I heard [of it], but to-day." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 21:27", "text": "And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a covenant." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 21:28", "text": "And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 21:29", "text": "And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 21:30", "text": "And he said, For [these] seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 21:31", "text": "Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 21:32", "text": "Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: Then Abimelech arose, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 21:33", "text": "And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 21:34", "text": "And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Genesis 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 22:1", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that God tempted Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, [here] I [am]." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 22:2", "text": "And he said, Take now thy son, thy only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will name to thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 22:3", "text": "And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and cleft the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose and went to the place which God had named to him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 22:4", "text": "Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 22:5", "text": "And Abraham said to his young men, Abide you here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and return to you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 22:6", "text": "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife: and they went both of them together." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 22:7", "text": "And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt-offering?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 22:8", "text": "And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering: so they went both of them together." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 22:9", "text": "And they came to the place which God had named to him; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order; and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 22:10", "text": "And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 22:11", "text": "And the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 22:12", "text": "And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing to him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld from me thy son, thy only [son]." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 22:13", "text": "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 22:14", "text": "And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it will be seen." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 22:15", "text": "And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven the second time," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 22:16", "text": "And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thy only [son]:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 22:17", "text": "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which [is] on the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 22:18", "text": "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed: because thou hast obeyed my voice." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 22:19", "text": "So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 22:20", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children to thy brother Nahor;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 22:21", "text": "Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 22:22", "text": "And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 22:23", "text": "And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to Nahor Abraham's brother." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 22:24", "text": "And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Genesis 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 23:1", "text": "And Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 23:2", "text": "And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 23:3", "text": "And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 23:4", "text": "I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 23:5", "text": "And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 23:6", "text": "Hear us, my lord; thou [art] a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead: none of us will withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou mayest bury thy dead." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 23:7", "text": "And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 23:8", "text": "And he communed with them, saying, If it is your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 23:9", "text": "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me, for a possession of a burying-place among you." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 23:10", "text": "And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, of all that entered the gates of his city, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 23:11", "text": "Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I to thee, and the cave that [is] in it, I give it to thee; in the presence of the sons of my people I give it to thee: bury thy dead." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 23:12", "text": "And Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 23:13", "text": "And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field: take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 23:14", "text": "And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 23:15", "text": "My lord, hearken to me: the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 23:16", "text": "And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 23:17", "text": "And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field and the cave which [was] in it, and all the trees that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made sure" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 23:18", "text": "To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that entered the gate of his city." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 23:19", "text": "And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 23:20", "text": "And the field, and the cave that [is] in it were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, by the sons of Heth." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Genesis 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 24:1", "text": "And Abraham was old [and] far advanced in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 24:2", "text": "And Abraham said to his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 24:3", "text": "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 24:4", "text": "But thou shalt go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 24:5", "text": "And the servant said to him, It may be the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I needs bring thy son again to the land from whence thou camest?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 24:6", "text": "And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 24:7", "text": "The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 24:8", "text": "And if the woman shall not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only bring not my son thither again." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 24:9", "text": "And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning that matter." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 24:10", "text": "And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; (for all the goods of his master [were] in his hands:) and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 24:11", "text": "And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, the time when women go out to draw [water]:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 24:12", "text": "And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, prosper me this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 24:13", "text": "Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 24:14", "text": "And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let the same be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and by that shall I know that thou hast shown kindness to my master." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 24:15", "text": "And it came to pass before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 24:16", "text": "And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 24:17", "text": "And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water from thy pitcher." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 24:18", "text": "And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 24:19", "text": "And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw [water] for thy camels also, till they have done drinking." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 24:20", "text": "And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw [water], and drew for all his camels." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 24:21", "text": "And the man, wondering at her, held his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous, or not." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 24:22", "text": "And it came to pass as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 24:23", "text": "And said, Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room [in] thy father's house for us to lodge in?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 24:24", "text": "And she said to him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 24:25", "text": "She said moreover to him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 24:26", "text": "And the man bowed his head, and worshipped the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 24:27", "text": "And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left my master destitute of his mercy and his truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 24:28", "text": "And the damsel ran, and told these things to her mother's house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 24:29", "text": "And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban: and Laban ran out to the man, to the well." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 24:30", "text": "And it came to pass when he saw the ear-ring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me; that he came to the man; and behold, he stood by the camels at the well." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 24:31", "text": "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; why standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 24:32", "text": "And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 24:33", "text": "And there was set [food] before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 24:34", "text": "And he said, I [am] Abraham's servant." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 24:35", "text": "And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 24:36", "text": "And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old: and to him hath he given all that he hath." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 24:37", "text": "And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 24:38", "text": "But thou shalt go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 39, "name": "Genesis 24:39", "text": "And I said to my master, It may be the woman will not follow me." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 40, "name": "Genesis 24:40", "text": "And he said to me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 41, "name": "Genesis 24:41", "text": "Then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one], thou shalt be clear from my oath." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 42, "name": "Genesis 24:42", "text": "And I came this day to the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou dost prosper my way which I go:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 43, "name": "Genesis 24:43", "text": "Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw [water], and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 44, "name": "Genesis 24:44", "text": "And she saith to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD hath pointed out for my master's son." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 45, "name": "Genesis 24:45", "text": "And before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down to the well, and drew [water]: and I said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 46, "name": "Genesis 24:46", "text": "And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 47, "name": "Genesis 24:47", "text": "And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him: and I put the ear-ring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 48, "name": "Genesis 24:48", "text": "And I bowed my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 49, "name": "Genesis 24:49", "text": "And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 50, "name": "Genesis 24:50", "text": "Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak to thee bad or good." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 51, "name": "Genesis 24:51", "text": "Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 52, "name": "Genesis 24:52", "text": "And it came to pass, that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the earth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 53, "name": "Genesis 24:53", "text": "And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 54, "name": "Genesis 24:54", "text": "And they ate and drank, he and the men that [were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 55, "name": "Genesis 24:55", "text": "And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that she shall go." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 56, "name": "Genesis 24:56", "text": "And he said to them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 57, "name": "Genesis 24:57", "text": "And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 58, "name": "Genesis 24:58", "text": "And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 59, "name": "Genesis 24:59", "text": "And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 60, "name": "Genesis 24:60", "text": "And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 61, "name": "Genesis 24:61", "text": "And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 62, "name": "Genesis 24:62", "text": "And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 63, "name": "Genesis 24:63", "text": "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at evening: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold, the camels [were] coming." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 64, "name": "Genesis 24:64", "text": "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 65, "name": "Genesis 24:65", "text": "For she [had] said to the servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore she took a vail and covered herself." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 66, "name": "Genesis 24:66", "text": "And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 67, "name": "Genesis 24:67", "text": "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's [death]." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Genesis 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 25:1", "text": "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 25:2", "text": "And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 25:3", "text": "And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 25:4", "text": "And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the children of Keturah." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 25:5", "text": "And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 25:6", "text": "But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son (while he yet lived) eastward, to the east country." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 25:7", "text": "And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred and seventy five years." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 25:8", "text": "Then Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 25:9", "text": "And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 25:10", "text": "The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 25:11", "text": "And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac: and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 25:12", "text": "Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 25:13", "text": "And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The first-born of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 25:14", "text": "And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 25:15", "text": "Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 25:16", "text": "These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 25:17", "text": "And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael; a hundred and thirty and seven years: and he expired and died, and was gathered to his people." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 25:18", "text": "And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, that [is] before Egypt, as thou goest towards Assyria: [and] he died in the presence of all his brethren." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 25:19", "text": "And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 25:20", "text": "And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 25:21", "text": "And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 25:22", "text": "And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If [it is] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 25:23", "text": "And the LORD said to her, Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels: and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the younger." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 25:24", "text": "And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, [there were] twins in her womb." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 25:25", "text": "And the first was born red, all over like a hairy garment: and they called his name Esau." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 25:26", "text": "And after that his brother was born, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was] sixty years old when she bore them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 25:27", "text": "And the boys grew: and Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man dwelling in tents." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 25:28", "text": "And Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 25:29", "text": "And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he [was] faint." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 25:30", "text": "And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 25:31", "text": "And Jacob said, Sell to me this day thy birth-right." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 25:32", "text": "And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what profit shall this birth-right bring to me?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 25:33", "text": "And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him: and he sold his birth-right to Jacob." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 25:34", "text": "Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birth-right." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Genesis 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 26:1", "text": "And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 26:2", "text": "And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 26:3", "text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee, and to thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 26:4", "text": "And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 26:5", "text": "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 26:6", "text": "And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 26:7", "text": "And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, She [is] my sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my wife; lest, [said he], the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she [was] fair to look upon." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 26:8", "text": "And it came to pass when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 26:9", "text": "And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, surely she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I should die on her account." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 26:10", "text": "And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done to us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guiltiness upon us." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 26:11", "text": "And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 26:12", "text": "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed him:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 26:13", "text": "And the man became great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 26:14", "text": "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistines envied him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 26:15", "text": "For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 26:16", "text": "And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us: for thou art much mightier than we." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 26:17", "text": "And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 26:18", "text": "And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 26:19", "text": "And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 26:20", "text": "And the herdmen of Gerar contended with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 26:21", "text": "And they digged another well, and contended for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 26:22", "text": "And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they did not contend: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 26:23", "text": "And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 26:24", "text": "And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 26:25", "text": "And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 26:26", "text": "Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 26:27", "text": "And Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 26:28", "text": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 26:29", "text": "That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 26:30", "text": "And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 26:31", "text": "And they rose betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 26:32", "text": "And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said to him, We have found water." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 26:33", "text": "And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-sheba to this day." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 26:34", "text": "And Esau was forty years old when he took for a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 26:35", "text": "Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Genesis 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 27:1", "text": "And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said to him, My son: and he said to him, Behold, [here am] I." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 27:2", "text": "And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 27:3", "text": "Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 27:4", "text": "And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 27:5", "text": "And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son; and Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring it." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 27:6", "text": "And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 27:7", "text": "Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD, before my death." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 27:8", "text": "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, according to that which I command thee." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 27:9", "text": "Go now to the flock, and bring me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 27:10", "text": "And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 27:11", "text": "And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 27:12", "text": "My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 27:13", "text": "And his mother said to him, upon me [be] thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 27:14", "text": "And he went, and took, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 27:15", "text": "And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which was with her in the house, and put it upon Jacob her younger son:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 27:16", "text": "And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth part of his neck:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 27:17", "text": "And she gave the savory meat, and the bread which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 27:18", "text": "And he came to his father, and said, My father: And he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 27:19", "text": "And Jacob said to his father, I [am] Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 27:20", "text": "And Isaac said to his son, How [is it] that thou hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought [it] to me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 27:21", "text": "And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [art] my very son Esau, or not." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 27:22", "text": "And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 27:23", "text": "And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: So he blessed him." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 27:24", "text": "And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am]." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 27:25", "text": "And he said, bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he ate: and he brought him wine, and he drank." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 27:26", "text": "And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 27:27", "text": "And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 27:28", "text": "Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 27:29", "text": "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth thee." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 27:30", "text": "And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 27:31", "text": "And he also had made savory meat, and brought it to his father; and said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 27:32", "text": "And Isaac his father said to him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, thy first-born Esau." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 27:33", "text": "And Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be blessed." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 27:34", "text": "And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 27:35", "text": "And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 27:36", "text": "And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me twice: he took away my birth-right; and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 27:37", "text": "And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now to thee, my son?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 27:38", "text": "And Esau said to his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 39, "name": "Genesis 27:39", "text": "And Isaac his father answered, and said to him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 40, "name": "Genesis 27:40", "text": "And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 41, "name": "Genesis 27:41", "text": "And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 42, "name": "Genesis 27:42", "text": "And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as concerning thee, doth comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 43, "name": "Genesis 27:43", "text": "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 44, "name": "Genesis 27:44", "text": "And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury shall turn away;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 45, "name": "Genesis 27:45", "text": "Till thy brother's anger shall turn away from thee, and he shall forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and bring thee from thence. Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 46, "name": "Genesis 27:46", "text": "And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [who are] of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?" } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Genesis 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 28:1", "text": "And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 28:2", "text": "Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 28:3", "text": "And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 28:4", "text": "And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land in which thou art a stranger, which God gave to Abraham." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 28:5", "text": "And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 28:6", "text": "When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him, he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 28:7", "text": "And that Jacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 28:8", "text": "And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 28:9", "text": "Then went Esau to Ishmael, and took to the wives which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 28:10", "text": "And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went towards Haran." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 28:11", "text": "And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set: and he took of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 28:12", "text": "And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 28:13", "text": "And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 28:14", "text": "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 28:15", "text": "And behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have declared to thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 28:16", "text": "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 28:17", "text": "And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] no other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 28:18", "text": "And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 28:19", "text": "And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 28:20", "text": "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on," }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 28:21", "text": "So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 28:22", "text": "And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth to thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Genesis 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 29:1", "text": "Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 29:2", "text": "And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well's mouth." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 29:3", "text": "And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 29:4", "text": "And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence [are] ye? And they said, We [are] from Haran." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 29:5", "text": "And he said to them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? and they said, We know [him]." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 29:6", "text": "And he said to them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 29:7", "text": "And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it] time that the cattle should be collected: water ye the sheep, and go [and] feed [them]." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 29:8", "text": "And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks are collected, and [till] they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 29:9", "text": "And while he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 29:10", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother; that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 29:11", "text": "And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 29:12", "text": "And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 29:13", "text": "And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 29:14", "text": "And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and my flesh: and he abode with him the space of a month." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 29:15", "text": "And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou [art] my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for naught? tell me, what [shall] thy wages [be]?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 29:16", "text": "And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder [was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 29:17", "text": "Leah [was] tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 29:18", "text": "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 29:19", "text": "And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 29:20", "text": "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 29:21", "text": "And Jacob said to Laban, Give [me] my wife (for my days are fulfilled) that I may go in to her." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 29:22", "text": "And Laban assembled all the men of the place, and made a feast." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 29:23", "text": "And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in to her." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 29:24", "text": "And Laban gave to his daughter Leah, Zilpah his maid [for] a handmaid." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 29:25", "text": "And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it [was] Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done to me? did I not serve with thee for Rachel? why then hast thou deceived me?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 29:26", "text": "And Laban said, it must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 29:27", "text": "Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 29:28", "text": "And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel, his daughter, for a wife also." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 29:29", "text": "And Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her maid." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 29:30", "text": "And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 29:31", "text": "And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he made her fruitful: but Rachel [was] barren." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 29:32", "text": "And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 29:33", "text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name Simeon." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 29:34", "text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Now this time will my husband adhere to me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 29:35", "text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Genesis 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 30:1", "text": "And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 30:2", "text": "And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 30:3", "text": "And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 30:4", "text": "And she gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, for a wife: and Jacob went in to her." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 30:5", "text": "And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 30:6", "text": "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 30:7", "text": "And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 30:8", "text": "And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 30:9", "text": "When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob for a wife." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 30:10", "text": "And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 30:11", "text": "And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 30:12", "text": "And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a second son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 30:13", "text": "And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 30:14", "text": "And Reuben went, in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 30:15", "text": "And she said to her, [Is it] a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 30:16", "text": "And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 30:17", "text": "And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 30:18", "text": "And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 30:19", "text": "And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 30:20", "text": "And Leah said, God hath endowed me [with] a good dower; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 30:21", "text": "And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 30:22", "text": "And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and rendered her fruitful." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 30:23", "text": "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 30:24", "text": "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD will add to me another son." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 30:25", "text": "And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 30:26", "text": "Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 30:27", "text": "And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience, that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 30:28", "text": "And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 30:29", "text": "And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle were with me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 30:30", "text": "For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now] increased to a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own house also?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 30:31", "text": "And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 30:32", "text": "I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 30:33", "text": "So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be accounted stolen with me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 30:34", "text": "And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 30:35", "text": "And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted; every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hands of his sons." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 30:36", "text": "And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 30:37", "text": "And Jacob took to him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which [was] in the rods." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 30:38", "text": "And he set the rods, which he had peeled, before the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs, when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 39, "name": "Genesis 30:39", "text": "And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 40, "name": "Genesis 30:40", "text": "And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ring-streaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not with Laban's cattle." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 41, "name": "Genesis 30:41", "text": "And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 42, "name": "Genesis 30:42", "text": "But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 43, "name": "Genesis 30:43", "text": "And the man increased exceedingly, and had many cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Genesis 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 31:1", "text": "And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he obtained all this glory." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 31:2", "text": "And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it [was] not towards him as before." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 31:3", "text": "And the LORD said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 31:4", "text": "And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field to his flock," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 31:5", "text": "And said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it [is] not towards me as before: but the God of my father hath been with me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 31:6", "text": "And ye know that with all my power I have served your father." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 31:7", "text": "And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 31:8", "text": "If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy hire; then all the cattle bore ring-streaked." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 31:9", "text": "Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 31:10", "text": "And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 31:11", "text": "And the angel of God spoke to me in a dream, [saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 31:12", "text": "And he said, Lift up now thy eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth to thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 31:13", "text": "I [am] the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst to me a vow: now arise, depart from this land, and return to the land of thy kindred." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 31:14", "text": "And Rachel and Leah answered, and said to him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 31:15", "text": "Are we not counted by him strangers; for he hath sold us, and hath quite consumed also our money." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 31:16", "text": "For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that [is] ours, and our children's: now then whatever God hath said to thee, do." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 31:17", "text": "Then Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 31:18", "text": "And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gained, the cattle of his getting, which he had gained in Padan-aram; to go to Isaac, his father, in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 31:19", "text": "And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel had stolen the images that [were] her father's." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 31:20", "text": "And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he was about to depart." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 31:21", "text": "So he fled with all that he had; and he arose, and passed over the river, and set his face [towards] the mount Gilead." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 31:22", "text": "And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 31:23", "text": "And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 31:24", "text": "And God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream by night, and said to him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 31:25", "text": "Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban, with his brethren, pitched in the mount of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 31:26", "text": "And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives [taken] with the sword?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 31:27", "text": "Why didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 31:28", "text": "And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons, and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 31:29", "text": "It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spoke to me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 31:30", "text": "And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou didst earnestly long after thy father's house; [yet] why hast thou stolen my gods?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 31:31", "text": "And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, It may be thou wouldest take thy daughters from me by force." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 31:32", "text": "With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and take [it] to thee: for Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 31:33", "text": "And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maid-servants' tents; but he found [them] not. Then he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 31:34", "text": "Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] not." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 31:35", "text": "And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women [is] upon me. And he searched, but found not the images." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 31:36", "text": "And Jacob was wroth, and chid with Laban: and Jacob answered, and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my sin, that thou hast so eagerly pursued after me?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 31:37", "text": "Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household-stuff? set [it] here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 31:38", "text": "These twenty years [have] I [been] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "name": "Genesis 31:39", "text": "That which was torn by beasts, I brought not to thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "name": "Genesis 31:40", "text": "[Thus] I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 41, "name": "Genesis 31:41", "text": "Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 42, "name": "Genesis 31:42", "text": "Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had been with me, surely thou hadst now sent me away empty. God hath seen my affliction, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 43, "name": "Genesis 31:43", "text": "And Laban answered, and said to Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have borne?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 44, "name": "Genesis 31:44", "text": "Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 45, "name": "Genesis 31:45", "text": "And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 46, "name": "Genesis 31:46", "text": "And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they ate there upon the heap." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 47, "name": "Genesis 31:47", "text": "And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 48, "name": "Genesis 31:48", "text": "And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 49, "name": "Genesis 31:49", "text": "And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 50, "name": "Genesis 31:50", "text": "If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives besides my daughters; no man [is] with us; See, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 51, "name": "Genesis 31:51", "text": "And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 52, "name": "Genesis 31:52", "text": "This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 53, "name": "Genesis 31:53", "text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 54, "name": "Genesis 31:54", "text": "Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and tarried all night in the mount." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 55, "name": "Genesis 31:55", "text": "And early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned to his place." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Genesis 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 32:1", "text": "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 32:2", "text": "And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 32:3", "text": "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 32:4", "text": "And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there till now:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 32:5", "text": "And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and men-servants, and women-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 32:6", "text": "And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 32:7", "text": "Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed: and he divided the people that [were] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and camels, into two bands;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 32:8", "text": "And said, If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, will escape." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 32:9", "text": "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who saidst to me, Return to thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 32:10", "text": "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shown to thy servant: for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 32:11", "text": "Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he shall come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 32:12", "text": "And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 32:13", "text": "And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau, his brother;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 32:14", "text": "Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 32:15", "text": "Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 32:16", "text": "And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 32:17", "text": "And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau, my brother, meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 32:18", "text": "Then thou shalt say, They [are] thy servant Jacob's: it [is] a present sent to my lord Esau: and behold also he [is] behind us." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 32:19", "text": "And so he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this manner shall ye speak to Esau, when ye find him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 32:20", "text": "And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 32:21", "text": "So the present went over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the company." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 32:22", "text": "And he arose that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 32:23", "text": "And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that which he had." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 32:24", "text": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him, until the breaking of the day." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 32:25", "text": "And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 32:26", "text": "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh; And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 32:27", "text": "And he said to him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 32:28", "text": "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 32:29", "text": "And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name: And he said, why [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? and he blessed him there." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 32:30", "text": "And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 32:31", "text": "And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 32:32", "text": "Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which shrunk, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrunk." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Genesis 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 33:1", "text": "And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two handmaids." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 33:2", "text": "And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 33:3", "text": "And he passed on before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, till he came near to his brother." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 33:4", "text": "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 33:5", "text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who [are] those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given to thy servant." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 33:6", "text": "Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 33:7", "text": "And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 33:8", "text": "And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, [these are] to find grace in the sight of my lord." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 33:9", "text": "And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep what thou hast to thyself." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 33:10", "text": "And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast been pleased with me." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 33:11", "text": "Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough: and he urged him, and he took [it]." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 33:12", "text": "And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 33:13", "text": "And he said to him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me, and if men should over-drive them one day, all the flock will die." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 33:14", "text": "Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on slowly, according as the cattle that go before me, and the children are able to endure; until I come to my lord to Seir." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 33:15", "text": "And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the people that [are] with me: And he said, What needeth it? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 33:16", "text": "So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 33:17", "text": "And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 33:18", "text": "And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 33:19", "text": "And he bought a part of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 33:20", "text": "And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Genesis 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 34:1", "text": "And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 34:2", "text": "And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 34:3", "text": "And his soul cleaved to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 34:4", "text": "And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel for a wife." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 34:5", "text": "And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the field:) and Jacob held his peace till they had come." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 34:6", "text": "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to commune with him." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 34:7", "text": "And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard [it]: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 34:8", "text": "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her to him for a wife." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 34:9", "text": "And make ye marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 34:10", "text": "And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 34:11", "text": "And Shechem said to her father, and to her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say to me, I will give." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 34:12", "text": "Ask me never so much dower and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a wife." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 34:13", "text": "And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, (because he had defiled Dinah their sister,)" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 34:14", "text": "And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised: for that [would be] a reproach to us:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 34:15", "text": "But in this will we consent to you: If ye will be as we [are], that every male of you shall be circumcised;" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 34:16", "text": "Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 34:17", "text": "But if ye will not hearken to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 34:18", "text": "And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 34:19", "text": "And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he [was] more honorable than all the house of his father." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 34:20", "text": "And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 34:21", "text": "These men [are] peaceable with us, therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein: for the land, behold, [it is] large enough for them: let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 34:22", "text": "Only herein, will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us shall be circumcised, as they [are] circumcised." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 34:23", "text": "[Will] not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 34:24", "text": "And to Hamor and to Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 34:25", "text": "And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 34:26", "text": "And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 34:27", "text": "The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city; because they had defiled their sister." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 34:28", "text": "They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 34:29", "text": "And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 34:30", "text": "And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites, and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they will assemble themselves against me, and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 34:31", "text": "And they said, Should he deal with our sister, as with a harlot?" } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "Genesis 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 35:1", "text": "And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 35:2", "text": "Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that [were] with him, Put away the strange gods that [are] among you, and be clean, and change your garments:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 35:3", "text": "And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 35:4", "text": "And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [the] ear-rings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 35:5", "text": "And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that [were] round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 35:6", "text": "So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan (that is Beth-el) he and all the people that [were] with him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 35:7", "text": "And he erected there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 35:8", "text": "But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 35:9", "text": "And God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram; and blessed him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 35:10", "text": "And God said to him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 35:11", "text": "And God said to him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 35:12", "text": "And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 35:13", "text": "And God went up from him, in the place where he talked with him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 35:14", "text": "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink-offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 35:15", "text": "And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 35:16", "text": "And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 35:17", "text": "And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 35:18", "text": "And it came to pass as her soul was in departing (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 35:19", "text": "And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 35:20", "text": "And Jacob set a pillar on her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 35:21", "text": "And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 35:22", "text": "And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 35:23", "text": "The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 35:24", "text": "The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 35:25", "text": "And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 35:26", "text": "And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These [are] the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Padan-aram." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 35:27", "text": "And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to the city of Arbah (which [is] Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac sojourned." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 35:28", "text": "And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 35:29", "text": "And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, [being] old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "Genesis 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 36:1", "text": "Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 36:2", "text": "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 36:3", "text": "And Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 36:4", "text": "And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath bore Reuel;" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 36:5", "text": "And Aholibamah bore Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: These [are] the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 36:6", "text": "And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance which he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 36:7", "text": "For their riches were more than that they might dwell together: and the land wherein they were strangers could not sustain them, because of their cattle." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 36:8", "text": "Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 36:9", "text": "And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites, in mount Seir:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 36:10", "text": "These [are] the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 36:11", "text": "And the sons of Eliphaz were, Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 36:12", "text": "And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah Esau's wife." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 36:13", "text": "And these [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 36:14", "text": "And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau, Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 36:15", "text": "These [were] dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born [son] of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 36:16", "text": "Duke Korah, duke Gatam, [and] duke Amalek: these [are] the dukes, [descendants] of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom: these [were] the sons of Adah." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 36:17", "text": "And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these [are] the dukes, [descendants] of Reuel, in the land of Edom: these [are] the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 36:18", "text": "And these [are] the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were] the dukes, [descendants] of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah Esau's wife." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 36:19", "text": "These [are] the sons of Esau (who [is] Edom) and these [are] their dukes." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 36:20", "text": "These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 36:21", "text": "And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these [are] the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 36:22", "text": "And the children of Lotan were Hori, and Heman: and Lotan's sister [was] Timna." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 36:23", "text": "And the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 36:24", "text": "And these [are] the children of Zibeon; both Ajah and Anah; this [was that] Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 36:25", "text": "And the children of Anah [were] these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 36:26", "text": "And these [are] the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 36:27", "text": "The children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Achan." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 36:28", "text": "The children of Dishan [are] these; Uz, and Aran." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 36:29", "text": "These [are] the dukes, [descendants] of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 36:30", "text": "Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan; these [are] the dukes, [descendants] of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 36:31", "text": "And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 36:32", "text": "And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 36:33", "text": "And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 36:34", "text": "And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 36:35", "text": "And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad (who smote Midian in the field of Moab) reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was] Avith." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 36:36", "text": "And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 36:37", "text": "And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 36:38", "text": "And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 39, "name": "Genesis 36:39", "text": "And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city [was] Pau; and his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 40, "name": "Genesis 36:40", "text": "And these [are] the names of the dukes, [descendants] of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 41, "name": "Genesis 36:41", "text": "Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 42, "name": "Genesis 36:42", "text": "Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 43, "name": "Genesis 36:43", "text": "Duke Magdiel, duke Iram; these [are] the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations, in the land of their possession: he [is] Esau the father of the Edomites." } ] }, { "chapter": 37, "name": "Genesis 37", "verses": [ { "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 37:1", "text": "And Jacob dwelt in the land in which his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 37:2", "text": "These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought to his father their evil report." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 37:3", "text": "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he [was] the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of [many] colors." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 37:4", "text": "And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 37:5", "text": "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 37:6", "text": "And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 37:7", "text": "For behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves stood around and made obeisance to my sheaf." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 37:8", "text": "And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? and they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 37:9", "text": "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more: and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 37:10", "text": "And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said to him, what [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 37:11", "text": "And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 37:12", "text": "And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 37:13", "text": "And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee to them. And he said to him, Here [am I]." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 37:14", "text": "And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 37:15", "text": "And a certain man found him, and behold [he was] wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 37:16", "text": "And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks]." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 37:17", "text": "And the man said, They have departed hence: for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren and found them in Dothan." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 37:18", "text": "And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 37:19", "text": "And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer is coming." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 37:20", "text": "Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit; and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 37:21", "text": "And Reuben heard [it], and he delivered him from their hands: and said, Let us not kill him." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 37:22", "text": "And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that [is] in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might deliver him from their hands, to bring him back to his father." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 37:23", "text": "And it came to pass when Joseph had come to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, [his] coat of [many] colors that [was] on him." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 37:24", "text": "And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty; [there was] no water in it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 37:25", "text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry [them] down to Egypt." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 37:26", "text": "And Judah said to his brethren, What profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 37:27", "text": "Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother, our flesh: and his brethren were content." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 37:28", "text": "Then there passed by Midianites, merchants; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 37:29", "text": "And Reuben returned to the pit; and behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit: and he rent his clothes." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 37:30", "text": "And he returned to his brethren, and said, The child [is] not: and I, whither shall I go?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 37:31", "text": "And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 37:32", "text": "And they sent the coat of [many] colors, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it [is] thy son's coat or not." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 37:33", "text": "And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 37:34", "text": "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 37:35", "text": "And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning: Thus his father wept for him." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 37:36", "text": "And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard." } ] }, { "chapter": 38, "name": "Genesis 38", "verses": [ { "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 38:1", "text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 38:2", "text": "And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in to her." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 38:3", "text": "And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 38:4", "text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 38:5", "text": "And she yet again conceived, and bore a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 38:6", "text": "And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, whose name [was] Tamar." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 38:7", "text": "And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 38:8", "text": "And Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 38:9", "text": "And Onan knew that the seed would not be his: and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he frustrated the purpose, lest he should give seed to his brother." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 38:10", "text": "And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 38:11", "text": "Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son shall be grown; (for he said, Lest perhaps he die also as his brethren [did]:) and Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 38:12", "text": "And in process of time, the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died: and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 38:13", "text": "And it was told to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 38:14", "text": "And she put off from her, her widow's garments, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath: for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him for a wife." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 38:15", "text": "When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] a harlot; because she had covered her face." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 38:16", "text": "And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me have access to thee; (for he knew not that she [was] his daughter-in-law:) and she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayst have access to me?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 38:17", "text": "And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock: and she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou sendest [it]?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 38:18", "text": "And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? and she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thy hand: and he gave [them to] her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 38:19", "text": "And she arose and went her way and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 38:20", "text": "And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 38:21", "text": "Then he asked the men of that place, saying, where [is] the harlot that [was] openly by the way-side? and they said, There was no harlot in this [place]." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 38:22", "text": "And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place]." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 38:23", "text": "And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 38:24", "text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told to Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also, behold she [is] with child by lewdness: and Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 38:25", "text": "When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man whose these [are], am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 38:26", "text": "And Judah acknowledged [them], and said She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son: and he knew her again no more." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 38:27", "text": "And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that behold, twins [were] in her womb." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 38:28", "text": "And it came to pass when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] hand; and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 38:29", "text": "And it came to pass as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out; and she said, How hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 38:30", "text": "And afterwards came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called Zarah." } ] }, { "chapter": 39, "name": "Genesis 39", "verses": [ { "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 39:1", "text": "And Joseph was brought down to Egypt: and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down thither." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 39:2", "text": "And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man: and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 39:3", "text": "And his master saw that the LORD [was] with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 39:4", "text": "And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] he had he put into his hand." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 39:5", "text": "And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake: and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house, and in the field." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 39:6", "text": "And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not aught he had, save the bread which he ate; and Joseph was [a] goodly [person], and well favored." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 39:7", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph: and she said, Lie with me." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 39:8", "text": "But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what [is] with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand:" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 39:9", "text": "[There is] none greater in his house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 39:10", "text": "And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not to her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 39:11", "text": "And it came to pass, about this time, that [Joseph] went into the house to do his business; and [there was] none of the men of the house there within." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 39:12", "text": "And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and went out." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 39:13", "text": "And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had fled forth," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 39:14", "text": "That she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us: he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 39:15", "text": "And it came to pass, when he heard that I raised my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and went out." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 39:16", "text": "And she laid up his garment by her until his lord came home." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 39:17", "text": "And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought to us, came in to me to mock me." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 39:18", "text": "And it came to pass, as I raised my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 39:19", "text": "And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 39:20", "text": "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the prison." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 39:21", "text": "But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 39:22", "text": "And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and whatever they did there, was done by him." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 39:23", "text": "The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that was] under his hand; because the LORD was with him: and [that] which he did the LORD made [it] to prosper." } ] }, { "chapter": 40, "name": "Genesis 40", "verses": [ { "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 40:1", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 40:2", "text": "And Pharaoh was wroth with two [of] his officers, with the chief of the butlers, and with the chief of the bakers." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 40:3", "text": "And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 40:4", "text": "And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; and they continued a season in custody." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 40:5", "text": "And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream; the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who [were] bound in the prison." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 40:6", "text": "And Joseph came to them in the morning, and looked upon them, and behold, they [were] sad." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 40:7", "text": "And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look ye [so] sad to-day?" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 40:8", "text": "And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 40:9", "text": "And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 40:10", "text": "And on the vine [were] three branches: and it [was] as though it budded, [and] its blossoms shot forth; and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 40:11", "text": "And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 40:12", "text": "And Joseph said to him, This [is] the interpretation of it: The three branches [are] three days;" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 40:13", "text": "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee to thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 40:14", "text": "But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness to me, I pray thee, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 40:15", "text": "For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 40:16", "text": "When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and behold, [I had] three white baskets on my head:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 40:17", "text": "And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of bake-meats for Pharaoh; and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 40:18", "text": "And Joseph answered, and said, This [is] the interpretation of it: The three baskets [are] three days:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 40:19", "text": "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 40:20", "text": "And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's birth-day, that he made a feast to all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 40:21", "text": "And he restored the chief butler to his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 40:22", "text": "But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 40:23", "text": "Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him." } ] }, { "chapter": 41, "name": "Genesis 41", "verses": [ { "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 41:1", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 41:2", "text": "And behold, there came up out of the river seven well-favored cows and fat-fleshed; and they fed in a meadow." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 41:3", "text": "And behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed; and stood by the [other] cows upon the brink of the river." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 41:4", "text": "And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven well-favored and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 41:5", "text": "And he slept and dreamed the second time: and behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 41:6", "text": "And behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 41:7", "text": "And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, [it was] a dream." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 41:8", "text": "And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them to Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 41:9", "text": "Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 41:10", "text": "Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in custody in the captain of the guard's house, [both] me, and the chief baker:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 41:11", "text": "And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he: we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 41:12", "text": "And [there was] there with us a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he interpreted." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 41:13", "text": "And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was: me he restored to my office, and him he hanged." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 41:14", "text": "Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself], and changed his raiment, and came before Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 41:15", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and [there is] none that can interpret it: and I have heard it said of thee, [that] thou canst understand a dream to interpret it." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 41:16", "text": "And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 41:17", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 41:18", "text": "And behold, there came out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed, and well-favored; and they fed in a meadow:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 41:19", "text": "And behold, seven other cows came out after them, poor, and very ill-favored, and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 41:20", "text": "And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 41:21", "text": "And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they [were] still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 41:22", "text": "And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 41:23", "text": "And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 41:24", "text": "And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told [this] to the magicians; but [there was] none that could explain [it] to me." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 41:25", "text": "And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is] one; God hath showed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 41:26", "text": "The seven good cows [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 41:27", "text": "And the seven thin and ill-favored cows that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind will be seven years of famine." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 41:28", "text": "This [is] the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he showeth to Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 41:29", "text": "Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 41:30", "text": "And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 41:31", "text": "And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine following: for it [will be] very grievous." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 41:32", "text": "And for that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh twice; [it is] because the thing [is] established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 41:33", "text": "Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 41:34", "text": "Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 41:35", "text": "And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh; and let them keep food in the cities." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 41:36", "text": "And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land may not perish through the famine." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 41:37", "text": "And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 41:38", "text": "And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find [such a man] as this [is], a man in whom the spirit of God [is]?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 39, "name": "Genesis 41:39", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art]:" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 40, "name": "Genesis 41:40", "text": "Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 41, "name": "Genesis 41:41", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 42, "name": "Genesis 41:42", "text": "And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 43, "name": "Genesis 41:43", "text": "And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 44, "name": "Genesis 41:44", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 45, "name": "Genesis 41:45", "text": "And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him for a wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and Joseph went over [all] the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 46, "name": "Genesis 41:46", "text": "And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt: and Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 47, "name": "Genesis 41:47", "text": "And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfulls." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 48, "name": "Genesis 41:48", "text": "And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field which [was] around every city, he laid up in the same." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 49, "name": "Genesis 41:49", "text": "And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 50, "name": "Genesis 41:50", "text": "And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came: which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bore to him." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 51, "name": "Genesis 41:51", "text": "And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For God, [said he], hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 52, "name": "Genesis 41:52", "text": "And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 53, "name": "Genesis 41:53", "text": "And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt, were ended." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 54, "name": "Genesis 41:54", "text": "And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 55, "name": "Genesis 41:55", "text": "And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he saith to you, do." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 56, "name": "Genesis 41:56", "text": "And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine became severe in the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 57, "name": "Genesis 41:57", "text": "And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy [corn]; because the famine was distressing in all lands." } ] }, { "chapter": 42, "name": "Genesis 42", "verses": [ { "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 42:1", "text": "Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 42:2", "text": "And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: go down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 42:3", "text": "And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 42:4", "text": "But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest perhaps mischief shall befall him." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 42:5", "text": "And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 42:6", "text": "And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 42:7", "text": "And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 42:8", "text": "And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 42:9", "text": "And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land have ye come." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 42:10", "text": "And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food have thy servants come." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 42:11", "text": "We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men]; thy servants are no spies." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 42:12", "text": "And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land have ye come." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 42:13", "text": "And they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest [is] this day with our father, and one [is] not." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 42:14", "text": "And Joseph said to them, That [is] what I spoke to you, saying, Ye [are] spies:" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 42:15", "text": "By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother shall come hither." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 42:16", "text": "Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there is any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 42:17", "text": "And he put them all together into custody three days." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 42:18", "text": "And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God:" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 42:19", "text": "If ye [are] true [men], let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 42:20", "text": "But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 42:21", "text": "And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 42:22", "text": "And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the young man; and ye would not hear? therefore behold also his blood is required." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 42:23", "text": "And they knew not that Joseph understood [them]; for he spoke to them by an interpreter." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 42:24", "text": "And he turned himself away from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 42:25", "text": "Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he to them." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 42:26", "text": "And they loaded their asses with the corn, and departed thence." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 42:27", "text": "And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money: for behold, it [was] in his sack's mouth." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 42:28", "text": "And he said to his brethren, My money is restored; and see [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done to us?" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 42:29", "text": "And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell them, saying," }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 42:30", "text": "The man [who is] the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 42:31", "text": "And we said to him, We [are] true [men]; we are no spies:" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 42:32", "text": "We [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father: one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 42:33", "text": "And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, By this shall I know that ye [are] true [men]: leave one of your brethren [here] with me, and take [food for] the famine of your households, and depart:" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 42:34", "text": "And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men]: then will I deliver to you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 35, "name": "Genesis 42:35", "text": "And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money [was] in his sack; and when they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 36, "name": "Genesis 42:36", "text": "And Jacob their father said to them, Me have ye bereaved: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]: all these things are against me." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 37, "name": "Genesis 42:37", "text": "And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 38, "name": "Genesis 42:38", "text": "And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief shall befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave." } ] }, { "chapter": 43, "name": "Genesis 43", "verses": [ { "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 43:1", "text": "And the famine [was] severe in the land." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 43:2", "text": "And it came to pass, when they had consumed the corn which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 43:3", "text": "And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did solemnly protest to us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 43:4", "text": "If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 43:5", "text": "But if thou wilt not send [him], we will not go down, for the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 43:6", "text": "And Israel said, Why dealt ye [so] ill with me, [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 43:7", "text": "And they said, The man asked us strictly concerning our state, and our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 43:8", "text": "And Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our little ones." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 43:9", "text": "I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 43:10", "text": "For except we had delayed, surely now we had returned this second time." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 43:11", "text": "And their father Israel said to them, If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 43:12", "text": "And take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; it may be it [was] an oversight:" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 43:13", "text": "Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man:" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 43:14", "text": "And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin: If I be bereaved, I am bereaved." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 43:15", "text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and arose, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 43:16", "text": "And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and make ready: for [these] men shall dine with me at noon." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 43:17", "text": "And the man did as Joseph commanded: and the man brought the men into Joseph's house." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 43:18", "text": "And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bond-men, and our asses." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 43:19", "text": "And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house," }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 43:20", "text": "And said, O sir, we came down indeed at the first time to buy food:" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 43:21", "text": "And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, [every] man's money [was] in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 43:22", "text": "And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 43:23", "text": "And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to them." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 43:24", "text": "And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 43:25", "text": "And they made ready the present against Joseph should come at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 43:26", "text": "And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 43:27", "text": "And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? [Is] he yet alive?" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 43:28", "text": "And they answered, Thy servant, our father, [is] in good health, he [is] yet alive: and they bowed their heads and made obeisance." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 43:29", "text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your younger brother, of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 43:30", "text": "And Joseph made haste; for his bowels yearned towards his brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into [his] chamber, and wept there." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 43:31", "text": "And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 43:32", "text": "And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an abomination to the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 43:33", "text": "And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men wondered one at another." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 43:34", "text": "And he took [and sent] messes to them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him." } ] }, { "chapter": 44, "name": "Genesis 44", "verses": [ { "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 44:1", "text": "And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks [with] food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 44:2", "text": "And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money: and he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 44:3", "text": "As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they, and their asses." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 44:4", "text": "[And] when they had gone out of the city, [and] were not [yet] far off, Joseph said to his steward, Arise, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 44:5", "text": "[Is] not this [the cup] in which my lord drinketh, and by which indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 44:6", "text": "And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 44:7", "text": "And they said to him, Why saith my lord these words? Far be it from us that thy servants should do according to this thing:" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 44:8", "text": "Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to thee from the land of Canaan: how then should we steal from thy lord's house silver or gold?" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 44:9", "text": "With whom [soever] of thy servants it shall be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bond-men." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 44:10", "text": "And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according to your words: he with whom it shall be found, shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 44:11", "text": "Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 44:12", "text": "And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 44:13", "text": "Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his ass, and returned to the city." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 44:14", "text": "And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he [was] yet there:) and they fell before him on the ground." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 44:15", "text": "And Joseph said to them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? knew ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 44:16", "text": "And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we [are] my lord's servants, both we, and [he] also with whom the cup is found." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 44:17", "text": "And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go in peace to your father." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 44:18", "text": "Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thy anger burn against thy servant; for thou [art] even as Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 44:19", "text": "My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 44:20", "text": "And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 44:21", "text": "And thou saidst to thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 44:22", "text": "And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 44:23", "text": "And thou saidst to thy servants, Except your youngest brother shall come down with you, ye shall see my face no more." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 44:24", "text": "And it came to pass, when we came to thy servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 44:25", "text": "And our father said, Go again; buy us a little food." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 44:26", "text": "And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother shall be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother shall [be] with us." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 44:27", "text": "And thy servant my father, said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two [sons]:" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 44:28", "text": "And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 44:29", "text": "And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 44:30", "text": "Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life)" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 44:31", "text": "It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad [is] not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father, with sorrow to the grave." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 44:32", "text": "For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I will bear the blame to my father for ever." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 44:33", "text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bond-man to my lord; and let the lad return with his brethren." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 44:34", "text": "For how shall I return to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father." } ] }, { "chapter": 45, "name": "Genesis 45", "verses": [ { "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 45:1", "text": "Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me: and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brethren." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 45:2", "text": "And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 45:3", "text": "And Joseph said to his brethren, I [am] Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 45:4", "text": "And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you: and they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 45:5", "text": "Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 45:6", "text": "For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in which [there shall] neither [be] tillage nor harvest." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 45:7", "text": "And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 45:8", "text": "So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 45:9", "text": "Haste ye, and return to my father, and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; delay not:" }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 45:10", "text": "And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:" }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 45:11", "text": "And there will I nourish thee, (for yet [there are] five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, should come to poverty." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 45:12", "text": "And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh to you." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 45:13", "text": "And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen: and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 45:14", "text": "And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 45:15", "text": "Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 45:16", "text": "And the fame of this was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 45:17", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, This do ye; load your beasts, and go, return to the land of Canaan;" }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 45:18", "text": "And take your father, and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 45:19", "text": "Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 45:20", "text": "Also regard not your furniture; for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 45:21", "text": "And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 45:22", "text": "To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver, and five changes of raiment." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 45:23", "text": "And to his father he sent after this [manner]; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat, for his father by the way." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 45:24", "text": "So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said to them, See that ye contend not by the way." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 45:25", "text": "And they went up from Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father," }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 45:26", "text": "And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 45:27", "text": "And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:" }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 45:28", "text": "And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him before I die." } ] }, { "chapter": 46, "name": "Genesis 46", "verses": [ { "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 46:1", "text": "And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 46:2", "text": "And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob: and he said, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 46:3", "text": "And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:" }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 46:4", "text": "I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again]: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 46:5", "text": "And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 46:6", "text": "And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:" }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 46:7", "text": "His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 46:8", "text": "And these [are] the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 46:9", "text": "And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 46:10", "text": "And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 46:11", "text": "And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 46:12", "text": "And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 46:13", "text": "And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 46:14", "text": "And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 46:15", "text": "These [are] the sons of Leah, which she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters [were] thirty and three." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 46:16", "text": "And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 46:17", "text": "And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 46:18", "text": "These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob, [even] sixteen souls." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 46:19", "text": "The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 46:20", "text": "And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bore to him." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 46:21", "text": "And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 46:22", "text": "These [are] the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls [were] fourteen." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 46:23", "text": "And the sons of Dan; Hushim." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 46:24", "text": "And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 46:25", "text": "These [are] the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls [were] seven." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 46:26", "text": "All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls [were] sixty and six." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 46:27", "text": "And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, [were] seventy." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 46:28", "text": "And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct his face to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 46:29", "text": "And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went to meet Israel his father to Goshen; and presented himself to him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 46:30", "text": "And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou [art] yet alive." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 46:31", "text": "And Joseph said to his brethren, and to his father's house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say to him, My brethren, and my father's house, who [were] in the land of Canaan are come to me." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 46:32", "text": "And the men [are] shepherds, for their employment hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 46:33", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation?" }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 34, "name": "Genesis 46:34", "text": "That ye shall say, The occupation of thy servants hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an abomination to the Egyptians." } ] }, { "chapter": 47, "name": "Genesis 47", "verses": [ { "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 47:1", "text": "Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan; and behold, they [are] in the land of Goshen." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 47:2", "text": "And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and presented them to Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 47:3", "text": "And Pharaoh said to his brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] shepherds, both we, [and] also our fathers." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 47:4", "text": "They said moreover to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land: for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine [is] severe in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 47:5", "text": "And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren have come to thee:" }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 47:6", "text": "The land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; and if thou knowest [any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 47:7", "text": "And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 47:8", "text": "And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old [art] thou?" }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 47:9", "text": "And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, nor have they attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 47:10", "text": "And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 47:11", "text": "And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 47:12", "text": "And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread according to [their] families." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 47:13", "text": "And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine [was] very distressing, so that the land of Egypt, and [all] the land of Canaan, fainted by reason of the famine." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 47:14", "text": "And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 47:15", "text": "And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence: for the money faileth." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 47:16", "text": "And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money hath failed." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 47:17", "text": "And they brought their cattle to Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread, for all their cattle, for that year." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 47:18", "text": "When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:" }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 47:19", "text": "Why shall we die before thy eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 47:20", "text": "And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 47:21", "text": "And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 47:22", "text": "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion [assigned them] by Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 47:23", "text": "Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the land." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 47:24", "text": "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 47:25", "text": "And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 47:26", "text": "And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 47:27", "text": "And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions in it and grew, and multiplied exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 47:28", "text": "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 47:29", "text": "And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 47:30", "text": "But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 47:31", "text": "And he said, Swear to me: and he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head." } ] }, { "chapter": 48, "name": "Genesis 48", "verses": [ { "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 48:1", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 48:2", "text": "And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 48:3", "text": "And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me," }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 48:4", "text": "And said to me, Behold I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee, [for] an everlasting possession." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 48:5", "text": "And now, thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 48:6", "text": "And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 48:7", "text": "And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet [there was] but a little way to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath, the same [is] Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 48:8", "text": "And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who [are] these?" }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 48:9", "text": "And Joseph said to his father, They [are] my sons, whom God hath given me in this [place]. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, to me, and I will bless them." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 48:10", "text": "(Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, [so that] he could not see:) And he brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 48:11", "text": "And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and lo, God hath shown me also thy seed." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 48:12", "text": "And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 48:13", "text": "And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israel's right hand, and brought [them] near to him." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 48:14", "text": "And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] upon Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands by design; for Manasseh [was] the first-born." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 48:15", "text": "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long to this day," }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 48:16", "text": "The angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac: and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 48:17", "text": "And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he lifted his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 48:18", "text": "And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this [is] the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 48:19", "text": "And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 48:20", "text": "And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 48:21", "text": "And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 48:22", "text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." } ] }, { "chapter": 49, "name": "Genesis 49", "verses": [ { "chapter": 49, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 49:1", "text": "And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in the last days." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 49:2", "text": "Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob: and hearken to Israel your father." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 49:3", "text": "Reuben, thou [art] my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, and the excellence of power:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 49:4", "text": "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou [it]; he went up to my couch." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 49:5", "text": "Simeon and Levi [are] brethren: instruments of cruelty [are in], their habitations." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 49:6", "text": "O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 49:7", "text": "Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce: and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 49:8", "text": "Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand [shall be] on the neck of thy enemies: thy father's children shall bow down before thee." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 49:9", "text": "Judah [is] a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou hast gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion: who shall rouse him up?" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 49:10", "text": "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh shall come: and to him [shall be] the gathering of the people." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 49:11", "text": "Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 49:12", "text": "His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 49:13", "text": "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he [shall be] for a haven of ships; and his border [shall be] to Zidon." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 49:14", "text": "Issachar [is] a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 49:15", "text": "And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 49:16", "text": "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 49:17", "text": "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 49:18", "text": "I have waited for thy salvation O LORD." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 49:19", "text": "Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 49:20", "text": "Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 49:21", "text": "Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 49:22", "text": "Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 49:23", "text": "The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 49:24", "text": "But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob: from thence [is] the shepherd the stone of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 49:25", "text": "[Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 49:26", "text": "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 27, "name": "Genesis 49:27", "text": "Benjamin shall raven [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 28, "name": "Genesis 49:28", "text": "All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this [is it] which their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 29, "name": "Genesis 49:29", "text": "And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 30, "name": "Genesis 49:30", "text": "In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 31, "name": "Genesis 49:31", "text": "(There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah,)" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 32, "name": "Genesis 49:32", "text": "The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] in it, [was] from the children of Heth." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 33, "name": "Genesis 49:33", "text": "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his people." } ] }, { "chapter": 50, "name": "Genesis 50", "verses": [ { "chapter": 50, "verse": 1, "name": "Genesis 50:1", "text": "And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 2, "name": "Genesis 50:2", "text": "And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 3, "name": "Genesis 50:3", "text": "And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 4, "name": "Genesis 50:4", "text": "And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying," }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 5, "name": "Genesis 50:5", "text": "My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 6, "name": "Genesis 50:6", "text": "And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 7, "name": "Genesis 50:7", "text": "And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt," }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 8, "name": "Genesis 50:8", "text": "And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 9, "name": "Genesis 50:9", "text": "And there went with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 10, "name": "Genesis 50:10", "text": "And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 11, "name": "Genesis 50:11", "text": "And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 12, "name": "Genesis 50:12", "text": "And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:" }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 13, "name": "Genesis 50:13", "text": "For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 14, "name": "Genesis 50:14", "text": "And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 15, "name": "Genesis 50:15", "text": "And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 16, "name": "Genesis 50:16", "text": "And they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying," }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 17, "name": "Genesis 50:17", "text": "So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 18, "name": "Genesis 50:18", "text": "And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we [are] thy servants." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 19, "name": "Genesis 50:19", "text": "And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God?" }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 20, "name": "Genesis 50:20", "text": "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save many people alive." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 21, "name": "Genesis 50:21", "text": "Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 22, "name": "Genesis 50:22", "text": "And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 23, "name": "Genesis 50:23", "text": "And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third [generation]: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 24, "name": "Genesis 50:24", "text": "And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 25, "name": "Genesis 50:25", "text": "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 26, "name": "Genesis 50:26", "text": "So Joseph died, [being] a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 2, "name": "Exodus", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Exodus 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 1:1", "text": "Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 1:2", "text": "Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 1:3", "text": "Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 1:4", "text": "Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 1:5", "text": "And all the souls that descended from Jacob, were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 1:6", "text": "And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 1:7", "text": "And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 1:8", "text": "Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 1:9", "text": "And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 1:10", "text": "Come, let us deal wisely with them: lest they multiply, and it shall come to pass, that when there falleth out any war, they will join with our enemies, and fight against us, and depart from the land." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 1:11", "text": "Therefore they set over them task-masters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom, and Raamses." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 1:12", "text": "But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 1:13", "text": "And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 1:14", "text": "And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service in which they made them serve, [was] with rigor." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 1:15", "text": "And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives (of which the name of one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 1:16", "text": "And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see [them] upon the stools; if it [shall be] a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it [shall be] a daughter, then she shall live." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 1:17", "text": "But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male-children alive." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 1:18", "text": "And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the male-children alive?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 1:19", "text": "And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women: for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in to them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 1:20", "text": "Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 1:21", "text": "And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 1:22", "text": "And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Exodus 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 2:1", "text": "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and married a daughter of Levi." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 2:2", "text": "And the woman conceived, and bore a son: and when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 2:3", "text": "And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 2:4", "text": "And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 2:5", "text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side: and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 2:6", "text": "And when she had opened [it], she saw the child: and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews' children." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 2:7", "text": "Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go, and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 2:8", "text": "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 2:9", "text": "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 2:10", "text": "And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 2:11", "text": "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 2:12", "text": "And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 2:13", "text": "And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Why smitest thou thy fellow?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 2:14", "text": "And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 2:15", "text": "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 2:16", "text": "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs to water their father's flock." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 2:17", "text": "And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 2:18", "text": "And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How [is it that] you are come so soon to day?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 2:19", "text": "And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the flock." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 2:20", "text": "And he said to his daughters, And where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 2:21", "text": "And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 2:22", "text": "And she bore [him] a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 2:23", "text": "And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their cry ascended to God, by reason of the bondage." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 2:24", "text": "And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 2:25", "text": "And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect to [them]." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Exodus 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 3:1", "text": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, [even] to Horeb." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 3:2", "text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 3:3", "text": "And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 3:4", "text": "And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 3:5", "text": "And he said, Approach not hither: put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place on which thou standest [is] holy ground." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 3:6", "text": "Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face: for he was afraid to look upon God." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 3:7", "text": "And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters; for I know their sorrows;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 3:8", "text": "And I am come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, to a good land, and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 3:9", "text": "Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 3:10", "text": "Come now therefore, and I will send thee to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 3:11", "text": "And Moses said to God, Who [am] I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 3:12", "text": "And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token to thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 3:13", "text": "And Moses said to God, Behold, [when] I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of your fathers hath sent me to you; and they shall say to me, What [is] his name? What shall I say to them?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 3:14", "text": "And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM: And he said, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me to you." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 3:15", "text": "And God said, moreover, to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to you: this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial to all generations." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 3:16", "text": "Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in Egypt." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 3:17", "text": "And I have said, I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 3:18", "text": "And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go (we beseech thee) three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 3:19", "text": "And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 3:20", "text": "And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 3:21", "text": "And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that when ye go, ye shall not go empty:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 3:22", "text": "But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that dwelleth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put [them] upon your sons, and upon your daughters: and ye shall spoil the Egyptians." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Exodus 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 4:1", "text": "And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken to my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared to thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 4:2", "text": "And the LORD said to him, What [is] that in thy hand? And he said, A rod." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 4:3", "text": "And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent: and Moses fled from before it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 4:4", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 4:5", "text": "That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 4:6", "text": "And the LORD said furthermore to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand [was] leprous as snow." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 4:7", "text": "And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 4:8", "text": "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 4:9", "text": "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken to thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour [it] upon the dry [land]: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 4:10", "text": "And Moses said to the LORD, O my Lord, I [am] not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoke to thy servant: but I [am] slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 4:11", "text": "And the LORD said to him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 4:12", "text": "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 4:13", "text": "And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt send." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 4:14", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 4:15", "text": "And thou shalt speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 4:16", "text": "And he shall speak for thee to the people: and he shall be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 4:17", "text": "And thou shalt take this rod in thy hand, with which thou shalt perform signs." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 4:18", "text": "And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who [are] in Egypt, and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 4:19", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 4:20", "text": "And Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 4:21", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou perform all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 4:22", "text": "And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my first-born." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 4:23", "text": "And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou shalt refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy first-born." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 4:24", "text": "And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 4:25", "text": "Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 4:26", "text": "So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the circumcision." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 4:27", "text": "And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 4:28", "text": "And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 4:29", "text": "And Moses and Aaron went, and assembled all the elders of the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 4:30", "text": "And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and performed the signs in the sight of the people." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 4:31", "text": "And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads, and worshiped." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Exodus 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 5:1", "text": "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 5:2", "text": "And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 5:3", "text": "And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice to the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 5:4", "text": "And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, hinder the people from their works; go you to your burdens." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 5:5", "text": "And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their burdens." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 5:6", "text": "And Pharaoh commanded the same day the task-masters of the people, and their officers, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 5:7", "text": "Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 5:8", "text": "And the number of the bricks which they made heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish [aught] thereof; for they are idle: therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to our God." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 5:9", "text": "Let more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein: and let them not regard vain words." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 5:10", "text": "And the task-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 5:11", "text": "Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 5:12", "text": "So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble instead of straw." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 5:13", "text": "And the task-masters hastened [them], saying, Fulfill your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 5:14", "text": "And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's task-masters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and to-day, as heretofore?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 5:15", "text": "Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dealest thou thus with thy servants?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 5:16", "text": "There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and behold, thy servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is] in thy own people." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 5:17", "text": "But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye say, Let us go, [and] do sacrifice to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 5:18", "text": "Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 5:19", "text": "And the officers of the children of Israel saw [that] they [were] in evil [case], after it was said, Ye shall not diminish [aught] from your bricks of your daily task." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 5:20", "text": "And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 5:21", "text": "And they said to them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to slay us." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 5:22", "text": "And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Lord, why hast thou [so] ill treated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 5:23", "text": "For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Exodus 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 6:1", "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them from his land." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 6:2", "text": "And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I [am] the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 6:3", "text": "And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 6:4", "text": "And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 6:5", "text": "And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage: and I have remembered my covenant." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 6:6", "text": "Wherefore say to the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will bring you from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with out-stretched arm, and with great judgments:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 6:7", "text": "And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 6:8", "text": "And I will bring you into the land, concerning which I swore to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 6:9", "text": "And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they hearkened not to Moses, by reason of anguish of spirit, and cruel bondage." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 6:10", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 6:11", "text": "Go in, speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel depart from his land." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 6:12", "text": "And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened to me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am] of uncircumcised lips?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 6:13", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 6:14", "text": "These [are] the heads of their father's houses: The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these [are] the families of Reuben." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 6:15", "text": "And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these [are] the families of Simeon." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 6:16", "text": "And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi [were] a hundred and thirty-seven years." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 6:17", "text": "The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 6:18", "text": "And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath [were] a hundred and thirty-three years." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 6:19", "text": "And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi, according to their generations." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 6:20", "text": "And Amram took him Jochebed, his father's sister, for a wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram [were] a hundred and thirty-seven years." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 6:21", "text": "And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 6:22", "text": "And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 6:23", "text": "And Aaron took him Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, for a wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 6:24", "text": "And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these [are] the families of the Korhites." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 6:25", "text": "And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took him [one] of the daughters of Putiel for a wife; and she bore to him Phinehas: these [are] the heads of the fathers of the Levites, according to their families." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 6:26", "text": "These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 6:27", "text": "These [are] they who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these [are] that Moses and Aaron." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 6:28", "text": "And it came to pass, on the day [when] the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 6:29", "text": "That the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, I [am] the LORD: speak thou to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all that I say to thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 6:30", "text": "And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken to me?" } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Exodus 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 7:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 7:2", "text": "Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 7:3", "text": "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 7:4", "text": "But Pharaoh shall not hearken to you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great judgments." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 7:5", "text": "And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 7:6", "text": "And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 7:7", "text": "And Moses [was] eighty years old, and Aaron eighty and three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 7:8", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 7:9", "text": "When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then thou shalt say to Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a serpent." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 7:10", "text": "And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 7:11", "text": "Then Pharaoh also called the wise-men, and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 7:12", "text": "For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 7:13", "text": "And he hardened Pharaoh's heart that he hearkened not to them; as the LORD had said." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 7:14", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened; he refuseth to let the people go." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 7:15", "text": "Go to Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out to the water, and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he cometh; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 7:16", "text": "And thou shalt say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me to thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 7:17", "text": "Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that [is] in my hand upon the waters which [are] in the river, and they shall be turned to blood." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 7:18", "text": "And the fish that [is] in the river shall die, and the river shall be offensive in smell; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 7:19", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood: and [that] there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in [vessels of] wood, and in [vessels of] stone." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 7:20", "text": "And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod and smote the waters that [were] in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that [were] in the river were turned into blood." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 7:21", "text": "And the fish that [was] in the river died; and the river was offensive in smell, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 7:22", "text": "And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken to them; as the LORD had said." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 7:23", "text": "And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he regard this also." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 7:24", "text": "And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 7:25", "text": "And seven days were fulfilled after that the LORD had smitten the river." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Exodus 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 8:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go that they may serve me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 8:2", "text": "And if thou shalt refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 8:3", "text": "And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy ovens, and into thy kneading troughs:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 8:4", "text": "And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 8:5", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 8:6", "text": "And Aaron stretched his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 8:7", "text": "And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 8:8", "text": "Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people: and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 8:9", "text": "And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee, and thy houses, [that] they may remain in the river only?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 8:10", "text": "And he said, To-morrow. And he said, [Be it] according to thy word; that thou mayest know that [there is] none like the LORD our God." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 8:11", "text": "And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 8:12", "text": "And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried to the LORD, because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 8:13", "text": "And the LORD did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 8:14", "text": "And they gathered them into heaps: and the land was offensive in smell." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 8:15", "text": "But when Pharaoh saw that there was respit, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not to them, as the LORD had said." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 8:16", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 8:17", "text": "And they did so: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 8:18", "text": "And the magicians did so with their inchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man and upon beast." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 8:19", "text": "Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This [is] the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not to them; as the LORD had said." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 8:20", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; (lo, he cometh forth to the water) and say to him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 8:21", "text": "Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and also the ground on which they [are]." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 8:22", "text": "And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms [of flies] shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I [am] the LORD in the midst of the earth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 8:23", "text": "And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to-morrow shall this sign be." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 8:24", "text": "And the LORD did so: and there came a grievous swarm [of flies] into the house of Pharaoh, and [into] his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm [of flies]." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 8:25", "text": "And Pharaoh called for Moses, and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 8:26", "text": "And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 8:27", "text": "We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he shall command us." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 8:28", "text": "And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 8:29", "text": "And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 8:30", "text": "And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 8:31", "text": "And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms [of flies] from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 8:32", "text": "And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Exodus 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 9:1", "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 9:2", "text": "For if thou shalt refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 9:3", "text": "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 9:4", "text": "And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel, and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all [that] belongs to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 9:5", "text": "And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow the LORD will do this thing in the land." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 9:6", "text": "And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 9:7", "text": "And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 9:8", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it towards heaven in the sight of Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 9:9", "text": "And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 9:10", "text": "And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it towards heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 9:11", "text": "And the magicians could not stand before Moses, because of the boil: for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 9:12", "text": "And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not to them; as the LORD had spoke to Moses." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 9:13", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 9:14", "text": "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people: that thou mayest know that [there is] none like me in all the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 9:15", "text": "For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 9:16", "text": "And in very deed for this [cause] have I raised thee up, to show [in] thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 9:17", "text": "As yet dost thou exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 9:18", "text": "Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since its foundation even until now." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 9:19", "text": "Send therefore now, [and] gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field: [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 9:20", "text": "He that feared the word of the LORD, among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 9:21", "text": "And he that regarded not the word of the LORD, left his servants and his cattle in the field." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 9:22", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 9:23", "text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground: and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 9:24", "text": "So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there had been none like it in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 9:25", "text": "And the hail smote, throughout all the land of Egypt, all that [was] in the field, both man and beast, and the hail smote every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 9:26", "text": "Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were], there was no hail." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 9:27", "text": "And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 9:28", "text": "Entreat the LORD (for [it is] enough) that there be no [more] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 9:29", "text": "And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the LORD; [and] the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth [is] the LORD'S." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 9:30", "text": "But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 9:31", "text": "And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley [was] in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 9:32", "text": "But the wheat and the rye were not smitten; for they [were] not grown up." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 9:33", "text": "And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 9:34", "text": "And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 9:35", "text": "And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Exodus 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 10:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants; that I might show these my signs before him:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 10:2", "text": "And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 10:3", "text": "And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 10:4", "text": "Else, if thou shalt refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy border:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 10:5", "text": "And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which hath escaped, which remaineth to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 10:6", "text": "And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth to this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 10:7", "text": "And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 10:8", "text": "And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go, serve the LORD your God: [but] who [are] they that shall go?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 10:9", "text": "And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we [must hold] a feast to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 10:10", "text": "And he said to them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look [to it]; for evil [is] before you." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 10:11", "text": "Not so: go now ye [that are] men, and serve the LORD; for that you desired. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 10:12", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, [even] all that the hail hath left." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 10:13", "text": "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all [that] night: [and] when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 10:14", "text": "And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt: very grievous [were they]; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 10:15", "text": "For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing on the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 10:16", "text": "Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 10:17", "text": "Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death only." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 10:18", "text": "And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 10:19", "text": "And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea: there remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 10:20", "text": "But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 10:21", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand towards heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 10:22", "text": "And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 10:23", "text": "They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 10:24", "text": "And Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 10:25", "text": "And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices, and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 10:26", "text": "Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for of them must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 10:27", "text": "But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 10:28", "text": "And Pharaoh said to him, Depart from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more: for in [that] day thou seest my face, thou shalt die." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 10:29", "text": "And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Exodus 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 11:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Yet will I bring one plague [more] upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let [you] go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 11:2", "text": "Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 11:3", "text": "And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses [was] very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 11:4", "text": "And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 11:5", "text": "And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid-servant that [is] behind the mill; and all the first-born of beasts." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 11:6", "text": "And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 11:7", "text": "But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 11:8", "text": "And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, Depart thou, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will depart: and he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 11:9", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 11:10", "text": "And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel depart from his land." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Exodus 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 12:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 12:2", "text": "This month [shall be] to you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 12:3", "text": "Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for a house:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 12:4", "text": "And if the household shall be too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 12:5", "text": "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] from the sheep or from the goats:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 12:6", "text": "And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 12:7", "text": "And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two side-posts, and on the upper door-post of the houses, in which they shall eat it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 12:8", "text": "And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire; and unleavened bread, [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 12:9", "text": "Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted [with] fire; its head with its legs, and with its entrails." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 12:10", "text": "And ye shall let nothing of it remain till the morning: and that which remaineth of it till the morning ye shall burn with fire." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 12:11", "text": "And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand: and ye shall eat it in haste; it [is] the LORD'S passover." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 12:12", "text": "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 12:13", "text": "And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye [are]: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy [you], when I smite the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 12:14", "text": "And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 12:15", "text": "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eateth leavened bread, from the first day till the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 12:16", "text": "And in the first day [there shall be] a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you: no manner of work shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done by you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 12:17", "text": "And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 12:18", "text": "In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread, till the one and twentieth day of the month at evening." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 12:19", "text": "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he shall be a stranger, or born in the land." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 12:20", "text": "Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 12:21", "text": "Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out, and take you a lamb, according to your families, and kill the passover." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 12:22", "text": "And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that [is] in the basin: and none of you shall go out at the door of his house till the morning." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 12:23", "text": "For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite [you]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 12:24", "text": "And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 12:25", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when ye shall have come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 12:26", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean you by this service?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 12:27", "text": "That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 12:28", "text": "And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 12:29", "text": "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, to the first-born of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 12:30", "text": "And Pharaoh rose in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for [there was] not a house where [there was] not one dead." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 12:31", "text": "And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, [and] depart from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel: and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 12:32", "text": "Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone: and bless me also." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 12:33", "text": "And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We [are] all dead [men]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 12:34", "text": "And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 12:35", "text": "And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses: and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 12:36", "text": "And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent to them [such things as they requested]: and they spoiled the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 12:37", "text": "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, besides children." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 12:38", "text": "And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even] very many cattle." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "name": "Exodus 12:39", "text": "And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought from Egypt, for it was not leavened: because they were driven from Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "name": "Exodus 12:40", "text": "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "name": "Exodus 12:41", "text": "And it came to pass, at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD departed from the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "name": "Exodus 12:42", "text": "It [is] a night to be much observed to the LORD, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is] that night of the LORD to be observed by all the children of Israel in their generations." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "name": "Exodus 12:43", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the passover: there shall no stranger eat of it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "name": "Exodus 12:44", "text": "But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "name": "Exodus 12:45", "text": "A foreigner, and a hired servant shall not eat of it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "name": "Exodus 12:46", "text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry aught of the flesh abroad out of the house: neither shall ye break a bone of it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "name": "Exodus 12:47", "text": "All the congregation of Israel shall keep it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 48, "name": "Exodus 12:48", "text": "And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat of it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 49, "name": "Exodus 12:49", "text": "One law shall be to him that is home-born, and to the stranger that sojourneth among you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 50, "name": "Exodus 12:50", "text": "Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 51, "name": "Exodus 12:51", "text": "And it came to pass the same day, [that] the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Exodus 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 13:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 13:2", "text": "Sanctify to me all the first-born, whatever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of beast: it [is] mine." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 13:3", "text": "And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this [place]: there shall no leavened bread be eaten." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 13:4", "text": "This day ye came out in the month Abib." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 13:5", "text": "And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey; that thou shalt keep this service in this month." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 13:6", "text": "Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 13:7", "text": "Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days: and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 13:8", "text": "And thou shalt show thy son in that day, saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did to me when I came forth out of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 13:9", "text": "And it shall be for a sign to thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thy eyes; that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 13:10", "text": "Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 13:11", "text": "And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it to thee," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 13:12", "text": "That thou shall set apart to the LORD all that openeth the matrix; and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast, the males [shall be] the LORD'S." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 13:13", "text": "And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the first-born of man among thy children shalt thou redeem." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 13:14", "text": "And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say to him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 13:15", "text": "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the first-born of my children I redeem." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 13:16", "text": "And it shall be for a token upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thy eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 13:17", "text": "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that [was] near, for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 13:18", "text": "But God led the people about, [through] the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up harnassed from the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 13:19", "text": "And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had strictly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence with you." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 13:20", "text": "And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 13:21", "text": "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light: to go by day and night." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 13:22", "text": "He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Exodus 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 14:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 14:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 14:3", "text": "For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They [are] entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 14:4", "text": "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow them; and I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 14:5", "text": "And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 14:6", "text": "And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 14:7", "text": "And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 14:8", "text": "And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with a high hand." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 14:9", "text": "But the Egyptians pursued them (all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army) and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 14:10", "text": "And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were greatly afraid; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 14:11", "text": "And they said to Moses, Because [there were] no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us, to conduct us out of Egypt?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 14:12", "text": "[Is] not this the word that we told thee in Egypt, Saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For [it had been] better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 14:13", "text": "And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 14:14", "text": "The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 14:15", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 14:16", "text": "But lift thou thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 14:17", "text": "And I, behold I, will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 14:18", "text": "And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 14:19", "text": "And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 14:20", "text": "And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 14:21", "text": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 14:22", "text": "And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry [ground]: and the waters [were] a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 14:23", "text": "And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, [even] all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 14:24", "text": "And it came to pass, that, in the morning-watch, the LORD looked to the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire, and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 14:25", "text": "And took off their chariot-wheels, and made them to move heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 14:26", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 14:27", "text": "And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 14:28", "text": "And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 14:29", "text": "But the children of Israel walked upon dry [land] in the midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 14:30", "text": "Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians: and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 14:31", "text": "And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Exodus 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 15:1", "text": "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 15:2", "text": "The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he [is] become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 15:3", "text": "The LORD [is] a man of war: the LORD [is] his name." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 15:4", "text": "Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 15:5", "text": "The depths have covered them: they sunk to the bottom as a stone." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 15:6", "text": "Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 15:7", "text": "And in the greatness of thy excellence thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 15:8", "text": "And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were collected, the floods stood upright as a heap, [and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 15:9", "text": "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 15:10", "text": "Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 15:11", "text": "Who [is] like to thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders!" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 15:12", "text": "Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 15:13", "text": "Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which] thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy strength to thy holy habitation." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 15:14", "text": "The people shall hear, [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 15:15", "text": "Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 15:16", "text": "Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thy arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, [which] thou hast purchased." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 15:17", "text": "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to dwell in; [in] the sanctuary, O Lord. [which] thy hands have established." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 15:18", "text": "The LORD shall reign for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 15:19", "text": "For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry [land] in the midst of the sea." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 15:20", "text": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 15:21", "text": "And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 15:22", "text": "So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 15:23", "text": "And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah; for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 15:24", "text": "And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 15:25", "text": "And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, [which] he cast into the waters, [and] the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 15:26", "text": "And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes; I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 15:27", "text": "And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water, and seventy palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Exodus 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 16:1", "text": "And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 16:2", "text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 16:3", "text": "And the children of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full: for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 16:4", "text": "Then said the LORD to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 16:5", "text": "And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare [that] which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 16:6", "text": "And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 16:7", "text": "And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: And what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 16:8", "text": "And Moses said, [This shall be] when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: And what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 16:9", "text": "And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 16:10", "text": "And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked towards the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 16:11", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 16:12", "text": "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel; Speak to them, saying, At evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 16:13", "text": "And it came to pass, that at evening the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay around the host." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 16:14", "text": "And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small as the hoar frost on the ground:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 16:15", "text": "And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they knew not what it [was]. And Moses said to them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 16:16", "text": "This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating: an omer for every man [according to] the number of your persons, take ye every man for [them] who [are] in his tents." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 16:17", "text": "And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 16:18", "text": "And when they measured [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack: they gathered every man according to his eating." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 16:19", "text": "And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 16:20", "text": "Notwithstanding, they hearkened not to Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became offensive; and Moses was wroth with them." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 16:21", "text": "And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun became hot, it melted." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 16:22", "text": "And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 16:23", "text": "And he said to them, This [is that] which the LORD hath said, To-morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD: bake [that] which ye will bake [to-day], and boil that ye will boil; and that which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 16:24", "text": "And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses ordered: and it did not putrefy, neither was there any worm therein." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 16:25", "text": "And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day [is] a sabbath to the LORD; to-day ye will not find it in the field." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 16:26", "text": "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is] the sabbath, in it there will be none." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 16:27", "text": "And it came to pass, [that some] of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, and they found none." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 16:28", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 16:29", "text": "See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days: abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 16:30", "text": "So the people rested on the seventh day." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 16:31", "text": "And the house of Israel called its name Manna: and it [was] like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 16:32", "text": "And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 16:33", "text": "And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 16:34", "text": "As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 16:35", "text": "And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited: they ate manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 16:36", "text": "Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Exodus 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 17:1", "text": "And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and encamped in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 17:2", "text": "Wherefore the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why chide you with me? why do ye tempt the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 17:3", "text": "And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why [is] this [that] thou hast brought us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 17:4", "text": "And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, What shall I do to this people? they are almost ready to stone me." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 17:5", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel: and thy rod, with which thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 17:6", "text": "Behold, I will stand before thee there on the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 17:7", "text": "And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 17:8", "text": "Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 17:9", "text": "And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 17:10", "text": "So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the hill." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 17:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 17:12", "text": "But Moses's hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat upon it: and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 17:13", "text": "And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 17:14", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 17:15", "text": "And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH-nissi:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 17:16", "text": "For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn [that] the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from generation to generation." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Exodus 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 18:1", "text": "When Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses's father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, [and] that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 18:2", "text": "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah Moses's wife, after he had sent her back," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 18:3", "text": "And her two sons; of which the name of the one [was] Gershom; (for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:)" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 18:4", "text": "And the name of the other [was] Eliezer; (for the God of my father, [said he], [was] my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:)" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 18:5", "text": "And Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 18:6", "text": "And he said to Moses, I thy father-in-law Jethro have come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 18:7", "text": "And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him: and they asked each other of [their] welfare: and they came into the tent." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 18:8", "text": "And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, [and] all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the LORD delivered them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 18:9", "text": "And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 18:10", "text": "And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 18:11", "text": "Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all gods: for in the thing in which they dealt proudly, [he was] above them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 18:12", "text": "And Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses's father-in-law before God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 18:13", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 18:14", "text": "And when Moses's father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What [is] this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning to evening?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 18:15", "text": "And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 18:16", "text": "When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between one and another, and I make [them] know the statutes of God, and his laws." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 18:17", "text": "And Moses's father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou doest [is] not good." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 18:18", "text": "Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that [is] with thee: for this thing [is] too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 18:19", "text": "Hearken now to my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people toward God, that thou mayest bring the causes to God:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 18:20", "text": "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 18:21", "text": "Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 18:22", "text": "And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, [that] every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small matter they shall judge: So shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 18:23", "text": "If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee [so], then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 18:24", "text": "So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 18:25", "text": "And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 18:26", "text": "And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 18:27", "text": "And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Exodus 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 19:1", "text": "In the third month, when the children of Israel had gone forth from the land of Egypt, the same day they came [into] the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 19:2", "text": "For they had departed from Rephidim, and had come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 19:3", "text": "And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 19:4", "text": "Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and [how] I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 19:5", "text": "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 19:6", "text": "And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 19:7", "text": "And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 19:8", "text": "And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 19:9", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Lo, I come to thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 19:10", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 19:11", "text": "And be ready against the third day: for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 19:12", "text": "And thou shalt set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up upon the mount, or touch the border of it: whoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 19:13", "text": "There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through: whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 19:14", "text": "And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 19:15", "text": "And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 19:16", "text": "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that [were] in the camp trembled." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 19:17", "text": "And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 19:18", "text": "And mount Sinai was altogether in a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount trembled greatly." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 19:19", "text": "And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 19:20", "text": "And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 19:21", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 19:22", "text": "And let the priests also who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 19:23", "text": "And Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 19:24", "text": "And the LORD said to him, Away, go down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: But let not the priests and the people break through, to come up to the LORD, lest he break forth upon them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 19:25", "text": "So Moses went down to the people, and spoke to them." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Exodus 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 20:1", "text": "And God spoke all these words, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 20:2", "text": "I [am] the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 20:3", "text": "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 20:4", "text": "Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 20:5", "text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 20:6", "text": "And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 20:7", "text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 20:8", "text": "Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 20:9", "text": "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 20:10", "text": "But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 20:11", "text": "For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 20:12", "text": "Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 20:13", "text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 20:14", "text": "Thou shalt not commit adultery." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 20:15", "text": "Thou shalt not steal." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 20:16", "text": "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 20:17", "text": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbor's." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 20:18", "text": "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they removed, and stood afar off." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 20:19", "text": "And they said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 20:20", "text": "And Moses said to the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 20:21", "text": "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God [was]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 20:22", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Thus thou shalt say to the children of Israel; Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 20:23", "text": "Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make to you gods of gold." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 20:24", "text": "An altar of earth thou shalt make to me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thy oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come to thee, and I will bless thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 20:25", "text": "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou [shalt] lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 20:26", "text": "Neither shalt thou go up by steps to my altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Exodus 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 21:1", "text": "Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 21:2", "text": "If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 21:3", "text": "If he came in by himself, he shall depart by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall depart with him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 21:4", "text": "If his master hath given him a wife, and she hath borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall depart by himself." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 21:5", "text": "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not depart free:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 21:6", "text": "Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door-post: and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 21:7", "text": "And if a man shall sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not depart as the men-servants do." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 21:8", "text": "If she shall not please her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her to a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 21:9", "text": "And if he hath betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 21:10", "text": "If he shall take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 21:11", "text": "And if he shall not perform these three to her, then shall she depart free without money." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 21:12", "text": "He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall be surely put to death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 21:13", "text": "And if a man shall not lie in wait, but God shall deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 21:14", "text": "But if a man shall come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from my altar, that he may die." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 21:15", "text": "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 21:16", "text": "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he shall be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 21:17", "text": "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 21:18", "text": "And if men contend together, and one shall smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he shall not die, but keep [his] bed:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 21:19", "text": "If he shall rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 21:20", "text": "And if a man shall smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he shall die under his hand; he shall be surely punished." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 21:21", "text": "Notwithstanding, if he shall continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he [is] his money." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 21:22", "text": "If men shall contend, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit shall depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 21:23", "text": "And if [any] mischief shall follow, then thou shalt give life for life," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 21:24", "text": "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 21:25", "text": "Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 21:26", "text": "And if a man shall smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it shall perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 21:27", "text": "And if he shall smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 21:28", "text": "If an ox shall gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 21:29", "text": "But if the ox was accustomed to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not restrained him, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 21:30", "text": "If there shall be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 21:31", "text": "Whether he hath gored a son, or hath gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 21:32", "text": "If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 21:33", "text": "And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass shall fall into it;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 21:34", "text": "The owner of the pit shall make compensation, [and] give money to the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 21:35", "text": "And if one man's ox shall hurt another's that he shall die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead [ox] also they shall divide." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 21:36", "text": "Or if it shall be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not restrained him; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Exodus 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 22:1", "text": "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 22:2", "text": "If a thief shall be found breaking through, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 22:3", "text": "If the sun shall have risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him: [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 22:4", "text": "If the theft shall be certainly found in his hand alive, whether an ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 22:5", "text": "If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 22:6", "text": "If fire shall break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field shall be consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 22:7", "text": "If a man shall deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief shall be found, let him pay double." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 22:8", "text": "If the thief shall not be found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, [to see] whether he hath put his hand to his neighbor's goods." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 22:9", "text": "For all manner of trespass, [whether it be] for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing which [another] challengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; [and] he whom the judges shall condemn, shall pay double to his neighbor." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 22:10", "text": "If a man shall deliver to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep; and it shall die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing [it]:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 22:11", "text": "[Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept of it, and he shall not make restitution." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 22:12", "text": "And if it shall be stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 22:13", "text": "If it shall be torn in pieces; [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 22:14", "text": "And if a man shall borrow [aught] of his neighbor, and it shall be hurt, or die, the owner of it [being] not with it, he shall surely make [it] good." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 22:15", "text": "[But] if the owner of it shall [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] a hired [thing], it came for his hire." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 22:16", "text": "And if a man shall entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 22:17", "text": "If her father shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dower of virgins." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 22:18", "text": "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 22:19", "text": "Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 22:20", "text": "He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 22:21", "text": "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 22:22", "text": "Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 22:23", "text": "If thou shalt afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 22:24", "text": "And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 22:25", "text": "If thou shalt lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 22:26", "text": "If thou shalt at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by the setting of the sun." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 22:27", "text": "For that [is] his only covering, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth to me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 22:28", "text": "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 22:29", "text": "Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give to me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 22:30", "text": "Likewise shalt thou do with thy oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it to me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 22:31", "text": "And ye shall be holy men to me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Exodus 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 23:1", "text": "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 23:2", "text": "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 23:3", "text": "Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 23:4", "text": "If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 23:5", "text": "If thou shalt see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 23:6", "text": "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 23:7", "text": "Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 23:8", "text": "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 23:9", "text": "Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 23:10", "text": "And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 23:11", "text": "But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy olive-yard." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 23:12", "text": "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thy ox and thy ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 23:13", "text": "And in all [things] that I have said to you be circumspect: and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard from thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 23:14", "text": "Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 23:15", "text": "Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 23:16", "text": "And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of in-gathering, [which] is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 23:17", "text": "Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 23:18", "text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 23:19", "text": "The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 23:20", "text": "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 23:21", "text": "Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 23:22", "text": "But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 23:23", "text": "For my Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, [and] the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 23:24", "text": "Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 23:25", "text": "And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 23:26", "text": "There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: I will complete the number of thy days." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 23:27", "text": "I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thy enemies turn their backs to thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 23:28", "text": "And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 23:29", "text": "I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land should become desolate, and the beast of the field should multiply against thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 23:30", "text": "By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the land." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 23:31", "text": "And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 23:32", "text": "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 23:33", "text": "They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee to sin against me: for if thou shalt serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Exodus 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 24:1", "text": "And he said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 24:2", "text": "And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 24:3", "text": "And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we perform." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 24:4", "text": "And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 24:5", "text": "And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 24:6", "text": "And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 24:7", "text": "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 24:8", "text": "And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 24:9", "text": "Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 24:10", "text": "And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [its] clearness." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 24:11", "text": "And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and ate and drank." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 24:12", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayst teach them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 24:13", "text": "And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up upon the mount of God." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 24:14", "text": "And he said to the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again to you: and behold, Aaron and Hur [are] with you: if any man hath any matters to do, let him come to them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 24:15", "text": "And Moses went up upon the mount, and a cloud covered the mount." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 24:16", "text": "And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 24:17", "text": "And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 24:18", "text": "And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount: and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Exodus 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 25:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 25:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 25:3", "text": "And this [is] the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver and brass," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 25:4", "text": "And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair]." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 25:5", "text": "And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 25:6", "text": "Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 25:7", "text": "Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breast-plate." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 25:8", "text": "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 25:9", "text": "According to all that I show thee [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its instruments, even so shall ye make [it]." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 25:10", "text": "And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [shall be] its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 25:11", "text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold around it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 25:12", "text": "And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] in its four corners; and two rings [shall be] in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 25:13", "text": "And thou shalt make staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 25:14", "text": "And thou shalt put the staffs into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 25:15", "text": "The staffs shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 25:16", "text": "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 25:17", "text": "And thou shalt make a mercy-seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 25:18", "text": "And thou shalt make two cherubim [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 25:19", "text": "And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: [even] of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim on its two ends." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 25:20", "text": "And the cherubim shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; towards the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 25:21", "text": "And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 25:22", "text": "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 25:23", "text": "Thou shalt also make a table [of] shittim wood: its length shall be two cubits, and its breadth a cubit, and its hight a cubit and a half." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 25:24", "text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make to it a crown of gold around it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 25:25", "text": "And thou shalt make to it a border of an hand-breadth around it, and thou shalt make a golden crown to its border around it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 25:26", "text": "And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on its four feet." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 25:27", "text": "Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staffs to bear the table." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 25:28", "text": "And thou shalt make the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 25:29", "text": "And thou shalt make its dishes, and its spoons, and its covers, and its bowls, to cover it with: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 25:30", "text": "And thou shalt set upon the table show-bread before me always." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 25:31", "text": "And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be of the same." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 25:32", "text": "And six branches shall extend from the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick from the one side, and three branches of the candlestick from the other side:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 25:33", "text": "Three bowls made like to almonds, [with] a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that project from the candlestick." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 25:34", "text": "And in the candlesticks [shall be] four bowls made like to almonds, [with] their knobs and their flowers." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 25:35", "text": "And [there shall be] a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that project from the candlestick." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 25:36", "text": "Their knobs and their branches shall be of the same: all of it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 25:37", "text": "And thou shalt make its seven lamps: and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 25:38", "text": "And its tongs, and its snuff-dishes, [shall be of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "name": "Exodus 25:39", "text": "[Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "name": "Exodus 25:40", "text": "And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which was shown thee on the mount." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Exodus 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 26:1", "text": "Moreover, thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubim of curious work shalt thou make them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 26:2", "text": "The length of one curtain [shall be] eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 26:3", "text": "The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 26:4", "text": "And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of [another] curtain, in the coupling of the second." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 26:5", "text": "Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that [is] in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 26:6", "text": "And thou shalt make fifty buttons of gold, and couple the curtains together with the buttons: and it shall be one tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 26:7", "text": "And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 26:8", "text": "The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 26:9", "text": "And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the front of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 26:10", "text": "And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain [that is] outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 26:11", "text": "And thou shalt make fifty buttons of brass, and put the buttons into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 26:12", "text": "And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 26:13", "text": "And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 26:14", "text": "And thou shalt make a covering for the tent, [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers' skins." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 26:15", "text": "And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood standing up." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 26:16", "text": "Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 26:17", "text": "Two tenons [shall there be] in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 26:18", "text": "And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 26:19", "text": "And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 26:20", "text": "And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side [there shall be] twenty boards:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 26:21", "text": "And their forty sockets [of] silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 26:22", "text": "And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 26:23", "text": "And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 26:24", "text": "And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 26:25", "text": "And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets [of] silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 26:26", "text": "And thou shalt make bars [of] shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 26:27", "text": "And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 26:28", "text": "And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 26:29", "text": "And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings [of] gold [for] places for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 26:30", "text": "And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shown thee on the mount." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 26:31", "text": "And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of curious work: with cherubim shall it be made." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 26:32", "text": "And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the four sockets of silver." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 26:33", "text": "And thou shalt hang the vail under the buttons, that thou mayst bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide to you between the holy [place] and the most holy." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 26:34", "text": "And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony, in the most holy [place]." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 26:35", "text": "And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle towards the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 26:36", "text": "And thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle work." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 26:37", "text": "And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars [of] shittim [wood], and overlay them with gold, [and] their hooks [shall be of] gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Exodus 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 27:1", "text": "And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its hight [shall be] three cubits." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 27:2", "text": "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: its horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 27:3", "text": "And thou shalt make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans: all its vessels thou shalt make [of] brass." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 27:4", "text": "And thou shalt make for it a grate of net-work of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in its four corners." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 27:5", "text": "And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 27:6", "text": "And thou shalt make staffs for the altar, staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 27:7", "text": "And the staffs shall be put into the rings, and the staffs shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 27:8", "text": "Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shown thee on the mount, so shall they make [it]." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 27:9", "text": "And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of a hundred cubits long for one side:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 27:10", "text": "And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 27:11", "text": "And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of a hundred [cubits] long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 27:12", "text": "And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 27:13", "text": "And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 27:14", "text": "The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 27:15", "text": "And on the other side [shall be] hangings, fifteen [cubits]: their pillars three, and their sockets three." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 27:16", "text": "And for the gate of the court [shall be] a hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: [and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 27:17", "text": "All the pillars around the court [shall be] filleted with silver: their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 27:18", "text": "The length of the court [shall be] a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the hight five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 27:19", "text": "All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 27:20", "text": "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring the pure olive-oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 27:21", "text": "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: [It shall be] a statute for ever to their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Exodus 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 28:1", "text": "And take thou to thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, [even] Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 28:2", "text": "And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 28:3", "text": "And thou shalt speak to all [that are] wise in heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 28:4", "text": "And these [are] the garments which they shall make; a breast-plate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a miter, and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 28:5", "text": "And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 28:6", "text": "And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with curious work." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 28:7", "text": "It shall have the two shoulder-pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be joined together." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 28:8", "text": "And the curious girdle of the ephod, which [is] upon it, shall be of the same, according to its work; [even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 28:9", "text": "And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 28:10", "text": "Six of their names on one stone, and [the] six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 28:11", "text": "With the work of an engraver in stone, [like] the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 28:12", "text": "And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of memorial to the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 28:13", "text": "And thou shalt make ouches [of] gold;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 28:14", "text": "And two chains [of] pure gold at the ends; [of] wreathed work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathed chains to the ouches." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 28:15", "text": "And thou shalt make the breast-plate of judgment with curious work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen shalt thou make it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 28:16", "text": "Foursquare it shall be, [being] doubled; a span [shall be] its length, and a span [shall be] its breadth." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 28:17", "text": "And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, [even] four rows of stones: [the first] row [shall be] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: [this shall be] the first row." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 28:18", "text": "And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 28:19", "text": "And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 28:20", "text": "And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 28:21", "text": "And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 28:22", "text": "And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate chains at the ends [of] wreathed work [of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 28:23", "text": "And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-plate." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 28:24", "text": "And thou shalt put the two wreathed [chains] of gold in the two rings [which are] on the ends of the breast-plate." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 28:25", "text": "And [the other] two ends of the two wreathed [chains] thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put [them] on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod before it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 28:26", "text": "And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breast-plate in its border, which [is] in the side of the ephod inward." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 28:27", "text": "And two [other] rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, towards the forepart of it, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 28:28", "text": "And they shall bind the breast-plate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that [it] may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breast-plate be not loosed from the ephod." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 28:29", "text": "And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breast-plate of judgment upon his heart, when he entereth into the holy [place], for a memorial before the LORD continually." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 28:30", "text": "And thou shalt put in the breast-plate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 28:31", "text": "And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all [of] blue." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 28:32", "text": "And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in the midst of it: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 28:33", "text": "And [beneath], upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, round about its hem; and bells of gold between them around it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 28:34", "text": "A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe around it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 28:35", "text": "And it shall be upon Aaron, to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in to the holy [place] before the LORD, and when he cometh out; that he may not die." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 28:36", "text": "And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and engrave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 28:37", "text": "And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the miter; upon the front of the miter it shall be." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 28:38", "text": "And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 39, "name": "Exodus 28:39", "text": "And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the miter [of] fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle [of] needle-work." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 40, "name": "Exodus 28:40", "text": "And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 41, "name": "Exodus 28:41", "text": "And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and on his sons with him: and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 42, "name": "Exodus 28:42", "text": "And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness: from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 43, "name": "Exodus 28:43", "text": "And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they enter in to the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy [place]; that they bear not iniquity, and die. [It shall be] a statute for ever to him, and to his seed after him." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Exodus 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 29:1", "text": "And this [is] the thing that thou shalt do to them to hallow them, to minister to me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 29:2", "text": "And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil; [of] wheat flour shalt thou make them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 29:3", "text": "And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 29:4", "text": "And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 29:5", "text": "And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron, the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast-plate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 29:6", "text": "And thou shalt put the miter upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the miter." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 29:7", "text": "Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and anoint him." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 29:8", "text": "And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 29:9", "text": "And thou shalt gird them with girdles (Aaron and his sons) and put the bonnets on them; and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 29:10", "text": "And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 29:11", "text": "And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 29:12", "text": "And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 29:13", "text": "And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul [that is] above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, and burn [them] upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 29:14", "text": "But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it [is] a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 29:15", "text": "Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 29:16", "text": "And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle [it] around upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 29:17", "text": "And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put [them] to his pieces, and to his head." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 29:18", "text": "And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt-offering to the LORD: it [is] a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 29:19", "text": "And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 29:20", "text": "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 29:21", "text": "And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons garments with him." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 29:22", "text": "Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, and the right shoulder; for it [is] a ram of consecration:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 29:23", "text": "And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread, that [is] before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 29:24", "text": "And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them [for] a wave-offering before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 29:25", "text": "And thou shalt receive them from their hands, and burn [them] upon the altar for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before the LORD: it [is] an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 29:26", "text": "And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it [for] a wave-offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 29:27", "text": "And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up of the ram of the consecration, [even] of [that] which [is] for Aaron, and of [that] which is for his sons:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 29:28", "text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever, from the children of Israel: for it [is] a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace-offerings, [even] their heave-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 29:29", "text": "And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 29:30", "text": "[And] that son, that is priest in his stead, shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy [place]." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 29:31", "text": "And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 29:32", "text": "And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that [is] in the basket, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 29:33", "text": "And they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat [of them], because they [are] holy." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 29:34", "text": "And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, shall remain till the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it [is] holy." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 29:35", "text": "And thus shalt thou do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all [things] which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 29:36", "text": "And thou shalt offer every day a bullock [for] a sin-offering for atonement; and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 29:37", "text": "Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatever toucheth the altar shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 29:38", "text": "Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year, day by day continually." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 39, "name": "Exodus 29:39", "text": "The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 40, "name": "Exodus 29:40", "text": "And with the one lamb a tenth-portion of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine [for] a drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 41, "name": "Exodus 29:41", "text": "And the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening, and shalt do thereto according to the meat-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 42, "name": "Exodus 29:42", "text": "[This shall be] a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you to speak there to thee." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 43, "name": "Exodus 29:43", "text": "And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle] shall be sanctified by my glory." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 44, "name": "Exodus 29:44", "text": "And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 45, "name": "Exodus 29:45", "text": "And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 46, "name": "Exodus 29:46", "text": "And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I [am] the LORD their God." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Exodus 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 30:1", "text": "And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: [of] shittim wood shalt thou make it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 30:2", "text": "A cubit [shall be] its length, and a cubit its breadth; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits [shall be] its hight: its horns [shall be] of the same." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 30:3", "text": "And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 30:4", "text": "And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by its two corners, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make [it]; and they shall be for places for the staffs to bear it with." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 30:5", "text": "And thou shalt make the staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 30:6", "text": "And thou shalt put it before the vail that [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat that [is] over the testimony, where I will meet with thee." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 30:7", "text": "And Aaron shall burn upon it sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 30:8", "text": "And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a perpetual incense before the LORD, throughout your generations." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 30:9", "text": "Ye shall offer no strange incense upon it, nor burnt-sacrifice, nor meat-offering; neither shall ye pour drink-offering upon it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 30:10", "text": "And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year, with the blood of the sin-offering of atonements: once in a year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it [is] most holy to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 30:11", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 30:12", "text": "When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when thou numberest them: that there may be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest them." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 30:13", "text": "This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) a half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 30:14", "text": "Every one that passeth among them that are numbered from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 30:15", "text": "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering to the LORD to make an atonement for your souls." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 30:16", "text": "And thou shalt take the atonement-money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 30:17", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 30:18", "text": "Thou shalt also make a laver [of] brass, and its foot [also of] brass, to wash [in]: [and] thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 30:19", "text": "For Aaron and their sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 30:20", "text": "When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not: or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 30:21", "text": "So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, [even] to him and to his seed throughout their generations." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 30:22", "text": "Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 30:23", "text": "Take thou also to thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half as much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels]," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 30:24", "text": "And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive-oil a hin:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 30:25", "text": "And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 30:26", "text": "And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation with it, and the ark of the testimony," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 30:27", "text": "And the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of incense," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 30:28", "text": "And the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its foot." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 30:29", "text": "And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever toucheth them shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 30:30", "text": "And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that [they] may minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 30:31", "text": "And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to me, throughout your generations." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 30:32", "text": "Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make [any other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy to you." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 30:33", "text": "Whoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 30:34", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Take to thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight]:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 30:35", "text": "And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 30:36", "text": "And thou shalt beat [some] of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be to you most holy:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 30:37", "text": "And [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to its composition: it shall be to thee holy for the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 30:38", "text": "Whoever shall make the like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Exodus 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 31:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 31:2", "text": "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 31:3", "text": "And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 31:4", "text": "To devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 31:5", "text": "And in cutting of stones to set [them], and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 31:6", "text": "And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom; that they may make all that I have commanded thee:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 31:7", "text": "The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that [is] upon it, and all the furniture of the tabernacle," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 31:8", "text": "And the table and its furniture, and the pure candlestick with all its furniture, and the altar of incense," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 31:9", "text": "And the altar of burnt-offering, with all its furniture, and the laver and its foot," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 31:10", "text": "And the clothes of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 31:11", "text": "And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy [place]: according to all that I have commanded thee, shall they do." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 31:12", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 31:13", "text": "Speak thou also to the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that [ye] may know that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 31:14", "text": "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore: for it [is] holy to you. Every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death: for whoever doeth [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 31:15", "text": "Six days may work be done, but in the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath-day, he shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 31:16", "text": "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual covenant." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 31:17", "text": "[It is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 31:18", "text": "And to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, he gave two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Exodus 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 32:1", "text": "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people assembled themselves to Aaron, and said to him, Arise, make us gods which shall go before us: for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 32:2", "text": "And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden ear-rings which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] to me." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 32:3", "text": "And all the people broke off the golden ear-rings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] to Aaron." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 32:4", "text": "And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 32:5", "text": "And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow [is] a feast to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 32:6", "text": "And they rose early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings: and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 32:7", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Go, go down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves]:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 32:8", "text": "They have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 32:9", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold it [is] a stiff-necked people:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 32:10", "text": "Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 32:11", "text": "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth from the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 32:12", "text": "Why should the Egyptians speak and say, For evil did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 32:13", "text": "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thine own self, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 32:14", "text": "And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 32:15", "text": "And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other [were] they written." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 32:16", "text": "And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 32:17", "text": "And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 32:18", "text": "And he said, [It is] not the voice of [them that] shout for mastery, neither [is it] the voice of [them that] cry for being overcome: [but] the noise of [them that] sing do I hear." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 32:19", "text": "And it came to pass as soon as he came nigh to the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses's anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables from his hands, and broke them beneath the mount." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 32:20", "text": "And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strewed [it] upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink [of it]." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 32:21", "text": "And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 32:22", "text": "And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people that they [are set] on mischief." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 32:23", "text": "For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us: for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 32:24", "text": "And I said to them, Whoever hath any gold, let them break [it] off: So they gave [it] to me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 32:25", "text": "And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked (for Aaron had made them naked to [their] shame, among their enemies:)" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 32:26", "text": "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who [is] on the LORD'S side? [let him come] to me. And all the sons of Levi assembled themselves to him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 32:27", "text": "And he said to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 32:28", "text": "And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 32:29", "text": "For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 32:30", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up to the LORD; it may be I shall make an atonement for your sin." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 32:31", "text": "And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 32:32", "text": "Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin: and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 32:33", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Whoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 32:34", "text": "Therefore now go, lead the people to [the place] of which I have spoken to thee: Behold, my angel shall go before thee: Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 32:35", "text": "And the LORD afflicted the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Exodus 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 33:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Depart [and] go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast conducted from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, to thy seed will I give it:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 33:2", "text": "And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 33:3", "text": "To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou [art] a stiff-necked people: lest I consume thee in the way." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 33:4", "text": "And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man put on him his ornaments." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 33:5", "text": "For the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, Ye [are] a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do to thee." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 33:6", "text": "And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, by the mount Horeb." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 33:7", "text": "And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp far from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one who sought the LORD, went out to the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the camp." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 33:8", "text": "And it came to pass when Moses went out to the tabernacle, [that] all the people rose, and stood every man at his tent-door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 33:9", "text": "And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [the LORD] talked with Moses." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 33:10", "text": "And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose and worshiped, every man [in] his tent-door." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 33:11", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend. And he turned again into the camp; but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 33:12", "text": "And Moses said to the LORD, See, thou sayest to me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 33:13", "text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation [is] thy people." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 33:14", "text": "And he said, My presence shall attend [thee], and I will give thee rest." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 33:15", "text": "And he said to him, If thy presence shall not attend me, conduct us not hence." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 33:16", "text": "For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? [Is it] not in that thou goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 33:17", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 33:18", "text": "And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 33:19", "text": "And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 33:20", "text": "And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 33:21", "text": "And the LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 33:22", "text": "And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock: and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 33:23", "text": "And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Exodus 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 34:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables which thou didst break." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 34:2", "text": "And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 34:3", "text": "And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount: neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 34:4", "text": "And he hewed two tables of stone, like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 34:5", "text": "And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 34:6", "text": "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 34:7", "text": "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth [generation]." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 34:8", "text": "And Moses made haste, and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshiped." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 34:9", "text": "And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us (for it [is] a stiff-necked people) and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 34:10", "text": "And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art], shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with thee." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 34:11", "text": "Observe thou that which I command thee this day: Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 34:12", "text": "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 34:13", "text": "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 34:14", "text": "For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 34:15", "text": "Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go astray after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 34:16", "text": "And thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 34:17", "text": "Thou shalt make thee no molten gods." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 34:18", "text": "The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out of from Egypt." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 34:19", "text": "Every first-born [is] mine: and every firstling among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male]." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 34:20", "text": "But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou shalt not redeem him, then shalt thou break his neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 34:21", "text": "Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in time of plowing and in harvest thou shalt rest." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 34:22", "text": "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of in-gathering at the year's end." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 34:23", "text": "Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 34:24", "text": "For I will drive out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God, thrice in the year." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 34:25", "text": "Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the morning." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 34:26", "text": "The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 34:27", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee, and with Israel." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 34:28", "text": "And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water: and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 34:29", "text": "And it came to pass when Moses came down from mount Sinai (with the two tables of testimony in Moses's hand, when he came down from the mount) that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone, while he talked with him." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 34:30", "text": "And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 34:31", "text": "And Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 34:32", "text": "And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 34:33", "text": "And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 34:34", "text": "But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out and spoke to the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 34:35", "text": "And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses's face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him." } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "Exodus 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 35:1", "text": "And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, These [are] the words which the LORD hath commanded, that [ye] should do them." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 35:2", "text": "Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever doth work therein shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 35:3", "text": "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath-day." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 35:4", "text": "And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded, saying," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 35:5", "text": "Take ye from among you an offering to the LORD: whoever [is] of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 35:6", "text": "And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair]," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 35:7", "text": "And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 35:8", "text": "And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 35:9", "text": "And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breast-plate." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 35:10", "text": "And every wise-hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 35:11", "text": "The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its buttons, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 35:12", "text": "The ark, and its staffs, [with] the mercy-seat, and the vail of the covering," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 35:13", "text": "The table, and its staffs, and all its vessels, and the show-bread," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 35:14", "text": "The candlestick also for the light, and its furniture, and its lamps, with the oil for the light," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 35:15", "text": "And the incense-altar, and its staffs, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 35:16", "text": "The altar of burnt-offering, with its brazen grate, its staffs, and all its vessels, the laver and its foot," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 35:17", "text": "The hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 35:18", "text": "The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 35:19", "text": "The clothes of service, to do service in the holy [place], the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 35:20", "text": "And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 35:21", "text": "And they came, every one whose heart excited him, and every one whom his spirit made willing, [and] they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 35:22", "text": "And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, [and] brought bracelets, and ear-rings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold; and every man that offered, [offered] an offering of gold to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 35:23", "text": "And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought [them]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 35:24", "text": "Every one that offered an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought [it]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 35:25", "text": "And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 35:26", "text": "And all the women whose heart moved them in wisdom spun goats' [hair]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 35:27", "text": "And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breast-plate;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 35:28", "text": "And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 35:29", "text": "The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 35:30", "text": "And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 35:31", "text": "And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 35:32", "text": "And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 35:33", "text": "And in the cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of wood, to make any manner of curious work." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 35:34", "text": "And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, [both] he and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 35:35", "text": "Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the skillful workmen, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise curious work." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "Exodus 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 36:1", "text": "Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding, to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 36:2", "text": "And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, [even] every one whose heart excited him to come to the work to do it:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 36:3", "text": "And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they brought yet to him free-offerings every morning." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 36:4", "text": "And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 36:5", "text": "And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 36:6", "text": "And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 36:7", "text": "For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 36:8", "text": "And every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: he made them [with] cherubim of curious work." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 36:9", "text": "The length of one curtain [was] twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains [were] all of one size." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 36:10", "text": "And he coupled the five curtains one to another: and [the other] five curtains he coupled one to another." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 36:11", "text": "And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the extremity of [another] curtain, in the coupling of the second." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 36:12", "text": "Fifty loops he made in one curtain, and fifty loops he made in the edge of the curtain which [was] in the coupling of the second: the loops held one [curtain] to another." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 36:13", "text": "And he made fifty buttons of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the buttons. So it became one tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 36:14", "text": "And he made curtains [of] goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 36:15", "text": "The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and four cubits [was] the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains [were] of one size." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 36:16", "text": "And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 36:17", "text": "And he made fifty loops upon the outermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 36:18", "text": "And he made fifty buttons [of] brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 36:19", "text": "And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering [of] badgers' skins above [that]." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 36:20", "text": "And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing up." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 36:21", "text": "The length of a board [was] ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 36:22", "text": "One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another; thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 36:23", "text": "And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 36:24", "text": "And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 36:25", "text": "And for the other side of the tabernacle [which is] towards the north corner, he made twenty boards." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 36:26", "text": "And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 36:27", "text": "And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 36:28", "text": "And two boards he made for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 36:29", "text": "And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 36:30", "text": "And there were eight boards; and their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 36:31", "text": "And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 36:32", "text": "And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 36:33", "text": "And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 36:34", "text": "And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings [of] gold [to be] places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 36:35", "text": "And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubim he made it of curious work." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 36:36", "text": "And he made to it four pillars [of] shittim [wood], and overlaid them with gold: their hooks [were of] gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 36:37", "text": "And he made a hanging for the tabernacle-door [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needle-work;" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 36:38", "text": "And the five pillars of it, with their hooks: and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets [were of] brass." } ] }, { "chapter": 37, "name": "Exodus 37", "verses": [ { "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 37:1", "text": "And Bezaleel made the ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [was] the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the hight of it:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 37:2", "text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 37:3", "text": "And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 37:4", "text": "And he made staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 37:5", "text": "And he put the staffs into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 37:6", "text": "And he made the mercy-seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] the length of it, and one cubit and a half the breadth of it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 37:7", "text": "And he made two cherubim [of] gold, beaten out of one piece he made them, on the two ends of the mercy-seat;" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 37:8", "text": "One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the [other] end on that side: out of the mercy-seat made he the cherubim on the two ends of it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 37:9", "text": "And the cherubim spread out [their] wings on high, [and] covered with their wings over the mercy-seat, with their faces one to another; [even] towards the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 37:10", "text": "And he made the table [of] shittim wood: two cubits [was] its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 37:11", "text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made to it a crown of gold round about." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 37:12", "text": "Also he made to it a border of a hand-breadth round about; and made a crown of gold for its border round about." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 37:13", "text": "And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that [were] in its four feet." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 37:14", "text": "Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staffs, to bear the table." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 37:15", "text": "And he made the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 37:16", "text": "And he made the vessels which [were] upon the table, its dishes, and its spoons, and its bowls, and its covers to cover with, [of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 37:17", "text": "And he made the candlestick of pure gold; [of] beaten work he made the candlestick; its shaft, and its branch, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers were of the same:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 37:18", "text": "And six branches proceeding from its sides; three branches of the candlestick from the one side of it, and three branches of the candlestick from the other side of it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 37:19", "text": "Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knob and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knob and a flower: so throughout the six branches proceeding from the candlestick." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 37:20", "text": "And in the candlestick [were] four bowls made like almonds, its knobs, and its flowers:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 37:21", "text": "And a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, according to the six branches proceeding from it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 37:22", "text": "Their knobs and their branches were of the same: all of it [was] one beaten work [of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 37:23", "text": "And he made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, [of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 37:24", "text": "[Of] a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its vessels." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 37:25", "text": "And he made the incense-altar [of] shittim wood: the length of it [was] a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; [it was] foursquare; and two cubits [was] the hight of it; the horns of it were of the same." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 37:26", "text": "And he overlaid it with pure gold, [both] the top of it, and its sides round about, and its horns: also he made to it a crown of gold round about." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 37:27", "text": "And he made two rings of gold for it under its crown, by the two corners of it, upon its two sides, to be places for the staffs to bear it with." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 37:28", "text": "And he made the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 37:29", "text": "And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary." } ] }, { "chapter": 38, "name": "Exodus 38", "verses": [ { "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 38:1", "text": "And he made the altar of burnt-offering [of] shittim wood: five cubits [was] the length of it, and five cubits the breadth of it; [it was] foursquare; and its hight was three cubits." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 38:2", "text": "And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 38:3", "text": "And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, [and] the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans: all the vessels of it he made [of] brass." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 38:4", "text": "And he made for the altar a brazen grate of net-work under the compass of it beneath to the midst of it." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 38:5", "text": "And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, [to be] places for the staffs." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 38:6", "text": "And he made the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 38:7", "text": "And he put the staffs into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 38:8", "text": "And he made the laver [of] brass, and the foot of it [of] brass, of the looking-glasses of [the women] assembling, who assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 38:9", "text": "And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court [were of] fine twined linen, a hundred cubits:" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 38:10", "text": "Their pillars [were] twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, [were of] silver." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 38:11", "text": "And for the north side, [the hangings were] a hundred cubits, their pillars [were] twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty: the hooks of the pillars, and their filets, [of] silver." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 38:12", "text": "And for the west side [were] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, [of] silver." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 38:13", "text": "And for the east side eastward fifty cubits." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 38:14", "text": "The hangings of the one side [of the gate were] fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 38:15", "text": "And for the other side of the court-gate, on this hand and that hand, [were] hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 38:16", "text": "All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine twined linen." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 38:17", "text": "And the sockets for the pillars [were of] brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, [of] silver; and the overlaying of their capitals [of] silver; and all the pillars of the court [were] filleted with silver." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 38:18", "text": "And the hanging for the gate of the court [was] needle-work, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits [was] the length, and the hight in the breadth [was] five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 38:19", "text": "And their pillars [were] four, and their sockets [of] brass four; their hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets [of] silver." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 38:20", "text": "And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, [were of] brass." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 38:21", "text": "This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 38:22", "text": "And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 38:23", "text": "And with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 38:24", "text": "All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy [place], even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 38:25", "text": "And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation [was] a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 38:26", "text": "A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty [men]." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 38:27", "text": "And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 38:28", "text": "And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and filleted them." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 38:29", "text": "And the brass of the offering [was] seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 38:30", "text": "And with this he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 38:31", "text": "And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about." } ] }, { "chapter": 39, "name": "Exodus 39", "verses": [ { "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 39:1", "text": "And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of service, to do service in the holy [place], and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 39:2", "text": "And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 39:3", "text": "And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires, to work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, [with] curious work." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 39:4", "text": "They made shoulder-pieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the two edges was it coupled together." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 39:5", "text": "And the curious girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon it, [was] of the same, according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 39:6", "text": "And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 39:7", "text": "And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 39:8", "text": "And he made the breast-plate [of] curious work, like the work of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 39:9", "text": "It was foursquare; they made the breast-plate double: a span [was] the length of it, and a span the breadth of it, [being] doubled." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 39:10", "text": "And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first] row [was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the first row." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 39:11", "text": "And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 39:12", "text": "And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 39:13", "text": "And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were] inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 39:14", "text": "And the stones [were] according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 39:15", "text": "And they made upon the breast-plate chains at the ends, [of] wreathed work [of] pure gold." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 39:16", "text": "And they made two ouches [of] gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings in the two ends of the breast-plate." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 39:17", "text": "And they put the two wreathed chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast-plate." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 39:18", "text": "And the two ends of the two wreathed chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, before it." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 39:19", "text": "And they made two rings of gold, and put [them] on the two ends of the breast-plate, upon the border of it, which [was] on the side of the ephod inward." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 39:20", "text": "And they made two [other] golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, towards the forepart of it, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod:" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 39:21", "text": "And they bound the breast-plate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breast-plate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 39:22", "text": "And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven work, all [of] blue." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 39:23", "text": "And [there was] a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, [with] a band around the hole, that it should not rend." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 39:24", "text": "And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen]." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 39:25", "text": "And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, around between the pomegranates;" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 39:26", "text": "A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe to minister [in]; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 39:27", "text": "And they made coats [of] fine linen, [of] woven work, for Aaron and for his sons," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 39:28", "text": "And a miter [of] fine linen, and goodly bonnets [of] fine linen, and linen breeches [of] fine twined linen," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 39:29", "text": "And a girdle [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of] needle-work; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 39:30", "text": "And they made the plate of the holy crown [of] pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, [like to] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 39:31", "text": "And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on high upon the miter; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 39:32", "text": "Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 39:33", "text": "And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its buttons, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 39:34", "text": "And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 39:35", "text": "The ark of the testimony, and its staffs, and the mercy-seat," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 39:36", "text": "The table, [and] all its vessels, and the show-bread," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 39:37", "text": "The pure candlestick, [with] its lamps, [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels, and the oil for light," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 39:38", "text": "And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle-door," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 39, "name": "Exodus 39:39", "text": "The brazen altar, and its grate of brass, its staffs, and all its vessels, the laver and its foot," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 40, "name": "Exodus 39:40", "text": "The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the hanging for the court-gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 41, "name": "Exodus 39:41", "text": "The clothes of service to do service in the holy [place], and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 42, "name": "Exodus 39:42", "text": "According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 43, "name": "Exodus 39:43", "text": "And Moses looked upon all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them." } ] }, { "chapter": 40, "name": "Exodus 40", "verses": [ { "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "name": "Exodus 40:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "name": "Exodus 40:2", "text": "On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "name": "Exodus 40:3", "text": "And thou shalt put in it the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "name": "Exodus 40:4", "text": "And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light its lamps." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "name": "Exodus 40:5", "text": "And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "name": "Exodus 40:6", "text": "And thou shalt set the altar of the, burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "name": "Exodus 40:7", "text": "And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water in it." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "name": "Exodus 40:8", "text": "And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court-gate." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "name": "Exodus 40:9", "text": "And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that [is] in it, and shalt hallow it, and all its vessels: and it shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "name": "Exodus 40:10", "text": "And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt-offering and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "name": "Exodus 40:11", "text": "And thou shalt anoint the laver and its foot, and sanctify it." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "name": "Exodus 40:12", "text": "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "name": "Exodus 40:13", "text": "And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister to me in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "name": "Exodus 40:14", "text": "And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "name": "Exodus 40:15", "text": "And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "name": "Exodus 40:16", "text": "Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "name": "Exodus 40:17", "text": "And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year, on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle was reared up." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "name": "Exodus 40:18", "text": "And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and reared up its pillars." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "name": "Exodus 40:19", "text": "And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "name": "Exodus 40:20", "text": "And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staffs on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "name": "Exodus 40:21", "text": "And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "name": "Exodus 40:22", "text": "And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "name": "Exodus 40:23", "text": "And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 24, "name": "Exodus 40:24", "text": "And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 25, "name": "Exodus 40:25", "text": "And he lighted the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 26, "name": "Exodus 40:26", "text": "And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation, before the vail:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 27, "name": "Exodus 40:27", "text": "And he burnt sweet incense on it; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 28, "name": "Exodus 40:28", "text": "And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 29, "name": "Exodus 40:29", "text": "And he put the altar of burnt-offering [by] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt-offering, and the meat-offering; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 30, "name": "Exodus 40:30", "text": "And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash [with]." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 31, "name": "Exodus 40:31", "text": "And Moses, and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and their feet thereat:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 32, "name": "Exodus 40:32", "text": "When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near to the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 33, "name": "Exodus 40:33", "text": "And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court-gate: so Moses finished the work." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 34, "name": "Exodus 40:34", "text": "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 35, "name": "Exodus 40:35", "text": "And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 36, "name": "Exodus 40:36", "text": "And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 37, "name": "Exodus 40:37", "text": "But if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 38, "name": "Exodus 40:38", "text": "For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 3, "name": "Leviticus", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Leviticus 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 1:1", "text": "And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 1:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man of you shall bring an offering to the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 1:3", "text": "If his offering shall [be] a burnt-sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 1:4", "text": "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 1:5", "text": "And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood around upon the altar that [is by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 1:6", "text": "And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 1:7", "text": "And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 1:8", "text": "And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that [is] on the fire which [is] upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 1:9", "text": "But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, [to be] a burnt-sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 1:10", "text": "And if his offering [be] of the flocks, [namely], of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 1:11", "text": "And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood around upon the altar:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 1:12", "text": "And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that [is] on the fire which [is] upon the altar:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 1:13", "text": "But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring [it] all, and burn [it] upon the altar: it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 1:14", "text": "And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD shall [be] of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle doves, or of young pigeons." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 1:15", "text": "And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn [it] on the altar: and its blood shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 1:16", "text": "And he shall pluck away its crop with its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 1:17", "text": "And he shall cleave it with its wings, [but] shall not divide [it] asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that [is] upon the fire: it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Leviticus 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 2:1", "text": "And when any will offer a meat-offering to the LORD, his offering shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense upon it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 2:2", "text": "And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take out of it his handful of its flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, [to be] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 2:3", "text": "And the remnant of the meat-offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it is] a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 2:4", "text": "And if thou shalt bring an oblation of a meat-offering baked in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 2:5", "text": "And if thy oblation [shall be] a meat-offering [baked] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 2:6", "text": "Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil upon it: it [is] a meat-offering." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 2:7", "text": "And if thy oblation [shall be] a meat-offering [baked] in the frying-pan, it shall be made [of] fine flour with oil." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 2:8", "text": "And thou shalt bring the meat-offering that is made of these things to the LORD: and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 2:9", "text": "And the priest shall take from the meat-offering a memorial of it, and shall burn [it] upon the altar: [it is] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 2:10", "text": "And that which is left of the meat-offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it is] a thing most holy, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 2:11", "text": "No meat-offering which ye shall bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 2:12", "text": "As for the oblation of the first-fruits, ye shall offer them to the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savor." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 2:13", "text": "And every oblation of thy meat-offering shalt thou season with salt: neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat-offering: with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 2:14", "text": "And if thou shalt offer a meat-offering of thy first-fruits to the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat-offering of thy first-fruits, green ears of corn dried by the fire, [even] corn beaten out of full ears." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 2:15", "text": "And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense upon it: [it is] a meat-offering." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 2:16", "text": "And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, [part] of its beaten corn, and [part] of its oil, with all its frankincense: [it is] an offering made by fire to the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Leviticus 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 3:1", "text": "And if his oblation [shall be] a sacrifice of peace-offering, if he shall offer [it] of the herd, whether a male or female; he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 3:2", "text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 3:3", "text": "And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace-offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 3:4", "text": "And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 3:5", "text": "And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar, upon the burnt-sacrifice which [is] upon the wood that [is] on the fire: [it is] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 3:6", "text": "And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offering to the LORD shall be [of] the flock, male or female; he shall offer it without blemish." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 3:7", "text": "If he shall offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 3:8", "text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood of it around upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 3:9", "text": "And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace-offering an offering made by fire to the LORD: its fat, [and] the whole rump, that shall he take off hard by the back-bone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 3:10", "text": "And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, that shall he take away." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 3:11", "text": "And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 3:12", "text": "And if his offering [shall be] a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 3:13", "text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 3:14", "text": "And he shall offer of it his offering, [even] an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 3:15", "text": "And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, that shall he take away." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 3:16", "text": "And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savor: all the fat [is] the LORD'S." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 3:17", "text": "[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Leviticus 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 4:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 4:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall violate any of them:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 4:3", "text": "If the priest that is anointed shall sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring, for his sin which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish to the LORD for a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 4:4", "text": "And he shall bring the bullock to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 4:5", "text": "And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 4:6", "text": "And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 4:7", "text": "And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt-offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 4:8", "text": "And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin-offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 4:9", "text": "And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, that shall he take away," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 4:10", "text": "As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace-offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 4:11", "text": "And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 4:12", "text": "Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 4:13", "text": "And if the whole congregation of Israel shall sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 4:14", "text": "When the sin which they have sinned against it is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 4:15", "text": "And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 4:16", "text": "And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 4:17", "text": "And the priest shall dip his finger [in some] of the blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD, [even] before the vail." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 4:18", "text": "And he shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt-offering, which [is] at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 4:19", "text": "And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn [it] upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 4:20", "text": "And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin-offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 4:21", "text": "And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it [is] a sin-offering for the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 4:22", "text": "When a ruler hath sinned, and done [somewhat] through ignorance [against] any of the commandments of the LORD his God [concerning things] which should not be done, and is guilty;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 4:23", "text": "Or if his sin, in which he hath sinned, shall come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 4:24", "text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt-offering before the LORD: it [is] a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 4:25", "text": "And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 4:26", "text": "And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 4:27", "text": "And if any one of the common people shall sin through ignorance, while he doeth [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and be guilty;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 4:28", "text": "Or if his sin which he hath sinned shall come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 4:29", "text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and slay the sin-offering in the place of the burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 4:30", "text": "And the priest shall take of the blood of it with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 4:31", "text": "And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor to the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 4:32", "text": "And if he shall bring a lamb for a sin-offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 4:33", "text": "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and slay it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 4:34", "text": "And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out all the blood of it at the bottom of the altar:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 4:35", "text": "And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Leviticus 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 5:1", "text": "And if a soul shall sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and be a witness, whether he hath seen or known [of it]; if he doth not utter [it], then he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 5:2", "text": "Or if a soul shall touch any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping animals, and it shall be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 5:3", "text": "Or if he shall touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness [it may be] that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 5:4", "text": "Or if a soul shall swear, pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever [it may be], that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty in one of these." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 5:5", "text": "And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 5:6", "text": "And he shall bring his trespass-offering to the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 5:7", "text": "And if he shall not be able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 5:8", "text": "And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer [that] which [is] for the sin-offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide [it] asunder:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 5:9", "text": "And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it [is] a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 5:10", "text": "And he shall offer the second [for] a burnt-offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 5:11", "text": "But if he shall not be able to bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put [any] frankincense upon it: for it [is] a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 5:12", "text": "Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, [even] a memorial of it, and burn [it] on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD: it [is] a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 5:13", "text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and [the remnant] shall be the priest's, as a meat-offering." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 5:14", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 5:15", "text": "If a soul shall commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 5:16", "text": "And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add to it the fifth part, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 5:17", "text": "And if a soul shall sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he knew [it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 5:18", "text": "And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass-offering to the priest; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and knew [it] not, and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 5:19", "text": "It [is] a trespass-offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Leviticus 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 6:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 6:2", "text": "If a soul shall sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbor, in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 6:3", "text": "Or hath found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 6:4", "text": "Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by force, or the thing which he obtained by deceit, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 6:5", "text": "Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part more, [and] give it to him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass-offering." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 6:6", "text": "And he shall bring his trespass-offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, to the priest:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 6:7", "text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 6:8", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 6:9", "text": "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the burnt-offering: It [is] the burnt-offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 6:10", "text": "And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 6:11", "text": "And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp to a clean place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 6:12", "text": "And the fire upon the altar shall be burning on it; it shall not be extinguished: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it; and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 6:13", "text": "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 6:14", "text": "And this [is] the law of the meat-offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 6:15", "text": "And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat-offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which [is] upon the meat-offering, and shall burn [it] upon the altar [for] a sweet savor, [even] the memorial of it, to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 6:16", "text": "And the remainder of it shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 6:17", "text": "It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it [to them for] their portion of my offerings made by fire; It [is] most holy, as [is] the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 6:18", "text": "All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 6:19", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 6:20", "text": "This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat-offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half of it at night." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 6:21", "text": "In a pan it shall be made with oil; [and when it is] baked, thou shalt bring it in: [and] the baked pieces of the meat-offering shalt thou offer [for] a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 6:22", "text": "And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: [it is] a statute for ever to the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 6:23", "text": "For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 6:24", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 6:25", "text": "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the sin-offering: In the place where the burnt-offering is killed shall the sin-offering be killed before the LORD: it [is] most holy." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 6:26", "text": "The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 6:27", "text": "Whatever shall touch the flesh of it shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of its blood upon any garment, thou shalt wash that on which it was sprinkled in the holy place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 6:28", "text": "But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken: and if it shall be boiled in a brazen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 6:29", "text": "All the males among the priests shall eat of it: it [is] most holy." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 6:30", "text": "And no sin-offering, of which [any] of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to make reconciliation in the holy [place], shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Leviticus 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 7:1", "text": "Likewise this [is] the law of the trespass-offering: it [is] most holy." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 7:2", "text": "In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the trespass-offering: and the blood of it shall he sprinkle around upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 7:3", "text": "And he shall offer of it all its fat; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 7:4", "text": "And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul [that is] above the liver, with the kidneys, that shall he take away:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 7:5", "text": "And the priest shall burn them upon the altar [for] an offering made by fire to the LORD: it [is] a trespass-offering." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 7:6", "text": "Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 7:7", "text": "As the sin-offering [is], so [is] the trespass-offering: [there is] one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement with it shall have [it]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 7:8", "text": "And the priest that offereth any man's burnt-offering, [even] the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 7:9", "text": "And all the meat-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying-pan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 7:10", "text": "And every meat-offering mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 7:11", "text": "And this [is] the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he shall offer to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 7:12", "text": "If he shall offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 7:13", "text": "Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering, leavened bread, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 7:14", "text": "And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation [for] a heave-offering to the LORD, [and] it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 7:15", "text": "And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 7:16", "text": "But if the sacrifice of his offering [shall be] a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 7:17", "text": "But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 7:18", "text": "And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings shall be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him that offereth it; it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 7:19", "text": "And the flesh that toucheth any unclean [thing] shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that shall be clean shall eat of it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 7:20", "text": "But the soul that eateth [of] the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings that [pertain] to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 7:21", "text": "Moreover, the soul that shall touch any unclean [thing], [as] the uncleanness of man, or [any] unclean beast, or any abominable unclean [thing], and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings which [pertain] to the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 7:22", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 7:23", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 7:24", "text": "And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used for any other purpose; but ye shall in no wise eat of it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 7:25", "text": "For whoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul that eateth [it] shall be cut off from his people." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 7:26", "text": "Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 7:27", "text": "Whatever soul [it may be] that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 7:28", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 7:29", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace-offerings to the LORD, shall bring his oblation to the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 7:30", "text": "His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, that shall he bring, that the breast may be waved [for] a wave-offering before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 7:31", "text": "And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 7:32", "text": "And the right shoulder shall ye give to the priest [for] a heave-offering of the sacrifices of your peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 7:33", "text": "He among the sons' of Aaron that offereth the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his] part." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 7:34", "text": "For the wave-breast and the heave-shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a statute for ever, from among the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 7:35", "text": "This [is the portion] of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day [when] he presented them to minister to the LORD in the priest's office;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 7:36", "text": "Which the LORD commanded to be given to them by the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a statute for ever throughout their generations." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 7:37", "text": "This [is] the law of the burnt-offering, of the meat-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the Peace-offerings;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 7:38", "text": "Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Leviticus 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 8:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 8:2", "text": "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin-offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 8:3", "text": "And assemble thou all the congregation to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 8:4", "text": "And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was gathered to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 8:5", "text": "And Moses said to the congregation, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded to be done." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 8:6", "text": "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 8:7", "text": "And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound [it] to him with it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 8:8", "text": "And he put the breast-plate upon him: also he put in the breast-plate the Urim and the Thummim." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 8:9", "text": "And he put the miter upon his head; also upon the miter, [even] upon his front, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 8:10", "text": "And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that [was] in it, and sanctified them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 8:11", "text": "And he sprinkled part of it upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, both the laver and its foot, to sanctify them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 8:12", "text": "And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 8:13", "text": "And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 8:14", "text": "And he brought the bullock for the sin-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 8:15", "text": "And he slew [it]; and Moses took the blood, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 8:16", "text": "And he took all the fat that [was] upon the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned [it] upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 8:17", "text": "But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 8:18", "text": "And he brought the ram for the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 8:19", "text": "And he killed [it]; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 8:20", "text": "And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 8:21", "text": "And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it [was] a burnt-sacrifice for a sweet savor, [and] an offering made by fire to the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 8:22", "text": "And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 8:23", "text": "And he slew [it]; and Moses took of its blood, and put [it] upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 8:24", "text": "And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 8:25", "text": "And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that [was] upon the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 8:26", "text": "And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that [was] before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put [them] on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 8:27", "text": "And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them [for] a wave-offering before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 8:28", "text": "And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt [them] on the altar upon the burnt-offering: they [were] consecrations for a sweet savor: it [is] an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 8:29", "text": "And Moses took the breast, and waved it [for] a wave-offering before the LORD: [for] of the ram of consecration it was Moses's part; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 8:30", "text": "And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which [was] upon the altar, and sprinkled [it] upon Aaron, [and] upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, [and] his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 8:31", "text": "And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and there eat it with the bread that [is] in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 8:32", "text": "And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 8:33", "text": "And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation [in] seven days, until the days of your consecration shall be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 8:34", "text": "As he hath done this day, [so] the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 8:35", "text": "Therefore shall ye abide [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 8:36", "text": "So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Leviticus 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 9:1", "text": "And it came to pass on the eighth day, [that] Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 9:2", "text": "And he said to Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and offer [them] before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 9:3", "text": "And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, [both] of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 9:4", "text": "Also a bullock and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat-offering mingled with oil: for to-day the LORD will appear to you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 9:5", "text": "And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 9:6", "text": "And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear to you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 9:7", "text": "And Moses said to Aaron, Go to the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 9:8", "text": "Aaron therefore went to the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which [was] for himself." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 9:9", "text": "And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 9:10", "text": "But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin-offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 9:11", "text": "And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 9:12", "text": "And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled around upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 9:13", "text": "And they presented the burnt-offering to him, with the pieces of it, and the head: and he burnt [them] upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 9:14", "text": "And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt [them] upon the burnt-offering on the altar." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 9:15", "text": "And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which [was] the sin-offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 9:16", "text": "And he brought the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the manner." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 9:17", "text": "And he brought the meat-offering, and took a handful of it, and burnt [it] upon the altar, beside the burnt-sacrifice of the morning." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 9:18", "text": "He slew also the bullock and the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which [was] for the people: and Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled around upon the altar," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 9:19", "text": "And the fat of the bullock, and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth [the inwards], and the kidneys, and the caul [above] the liver:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 9:20", "text": "And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 9:21", "text": "And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved [for] a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 9:22", "text": "And Aaron lifted up his hand towards the people, and blessed them; and came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 9:23", "text": "And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 9:24", "text": "And there came out a fire from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: [which], when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Leviticus 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 10:1", "text": "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 10:2", "text": "And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 10:3", "text": "Then Moses said to Aaron, This [is] what the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 10:4", "text": "And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 10:5", "text": "So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 10:6", "text": "And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 10:7", "text": "And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD [is] upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 10:8", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 10:9", "text": "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 10:10", "text": "And that ye may make a difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 10:11", "text": "And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 10:12", "text": "And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat-offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it [is] most holy:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 10:13", "text": "And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it [is] thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 10:14", "text": "And the wave-breast and heave-shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for [they are] thy due, and thy sons' due, [which] are given out of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 10:15", "text": "The heave-shoulder and the wave-breast shall they bring, with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave [it for] a wave-offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 10:16", "text": "And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron [who were] left [alive], saying," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 10:17", "text": "Why have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the holy place, seeing it [is] most holy, and [God] hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 10:18", "text": "Behold, the blood of it was not brought within the holy [place]: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy [place], as I commanded." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 10:19", "text": "And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering, and their burnt-offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and [if] I had eaten the sin-offering to day, would it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 10:20", "text": "And when Moses heard [that], he was content." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Leviticus 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 11:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 11:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye may eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 11:3", "text": "Whatever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 11:4", "text": "Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 11:5", "text": "And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 11:6", "text": "And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof: he [is] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 11:7", "text": "And the swine, though he divideth the hoof, and [is] cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 11:8", "text": "Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 11:9", "text": "These shall ye eat, of all that [are] in the waters: whatever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 11:10", "text": "And all that have not fins nor scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living animal which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination to you:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 11:11", "text": "They shall be even an abomination to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcasses in abomination." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 11:12", "text": "Whatever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 11:13", "text": "And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 11:14", "text": "And the vultur, and the kite after his kind;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 11:15", "text": "Every raven after his kind;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 11:16", "text": "And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 11:17", "text": "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 11:18", "text": "And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier-eagle," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 11:19", "text": "And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 11:20", "text": "All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall be] an abomination to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 11:21", "text": "Yet these may ye eat, of every flying creeping animal that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap with upon the earth;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 11:22", "text": "[Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 11:23", "text": "But all [other] flying creeping animals, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 11:24", "text": "And for these ye shall be unclean: whoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 11:25", "text": "And whoever beareth [aught] of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 11:26", "text": "[The carcasses] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not cloven-footed, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean to you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 11:27", "text": "And whatever goeth upon its paws, among all manner of beasts that go on [all] four, those [are] unclean to you: whoever toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 11:28", "text": "And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they [are] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 11:29", "text": "These also [shall be] unclean to you among the creeping animals that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise, after its kind," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 11:30", "text": "And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 11:31", "text": "These [are] unclean to you among all that creep: whoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 11:32", "text": "And upon whatever [any] of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it is] any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel [it is], in which [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; so it shall be cleansed." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 11:33", "text": "And every earthen vessel, into which [any] of them falleth, whatever [is] in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 11:34", "text": "Of all meat which may be eaten, [that] on which [such] water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drank in every [such] vessel, shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 11:35", "text": "And every [thing] on which [any part] of their carcass falleth, shall be unclean; [whether] an oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: [for] they [are] unclean, and shall be unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 11:36", "text": "Nevertheless, a fountain or pit, [in which there is] plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 11:37", "text": "And if [any part] of their carcass shall fall upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 11:38", "text": "But if [any] water shall be put upon the seed, and [any part] of their carcass shall fall on it, it [shall be] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "name": "Leviticus 11:39", "text": "And if any beast, of which ye may eat, shall die; he that toucheth its carcass shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "name": "Leviticus 11:40", "text": "And he that eateth of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; he also that beareth its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "name": "Leviticus 11:41", "text": "And every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth [shall be] an abomination; it shall not be eaten." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "name": "Leviticus 11:42", "text": "Whatever goeth upon the belly, and whatever goeth upon [all] four, or whatever hath more feet among all creeping animals that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they [are] an abomination." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "name": "Leviticus 11:43", "text": "Ye shall not make your selves abominable with any creeping animal that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled by them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "name": "Leviticus 11:44", "text": "For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "name": "Leviticus 11:45", "text": "For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 46, "name": "Leviticus 11:46", "text": "This [is] the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 47, "name": "Leviticus 11:47", "text": "To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Leviticus 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 12:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 12:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a woman hath conceived seed, and borne a male-child; then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 12:3", "text": "And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 12:4", "text": "And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days: she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 12:5", "text": "But if she shall bear a female-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty six days." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 12:6", "text": "And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 12:7", "text": "Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This [is] the law for her that hath borne a male or a female." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 12:8", "text": "And if she shall not be able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Leviticus 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 13:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 13:2", "text": "When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh [like] the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 13:3", "text": "And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and [when] the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight [is] deeper than the skin of his flesh, it [is] a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 13:4", "text": "If the bright spot [is] white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight, not deeper than the skin, and the hair of it not turned white; then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the plague seven days:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 13:5", "text": "And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and behold, [if] the plague in his sight is at a stay, [and] the plague spreadeth not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 13:6", "text": "And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and behold, [if] the plague [is] somewhat dark, [and] the plague spreadeth not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 13:7", "text": "But if the scab shall spread much in the skin, after he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 13:8", "text": "And [if] the priest shall see, that behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a leprosy." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 13:9", "text": "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 13:10", "text": "And the priest shall see [him]: and behold, [if] the rising [is] white in the skin, and it hath turned the hair white, and [there is] raw flesh in the rising;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 13:11", "text": "It [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up; for he [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 13:12", "text": "And if a leprosy shall break out in the skin, and the leprosy shall cover all the skin of [him that hath] the plague from his head even to his foot, wherever the priest looketh;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 13:13", "text": "Then the priest shall consider: and behold, [if] the leprosy hath covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague: it is all turned white: he [is] clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 13:14", "text": "But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 13:15", "text": "And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it [is] a leprosy." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 13:16", "text": "Or if the raw flesh shall turn again, and be changed into white, he shall come to the priest;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 13:17", "text": "And the priest shall see him: and behold, [if] the plague is turned into white: then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague: he [is] clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 13:18", "text": "The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin of it, was a boil, and is healed," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 13:19", "text": "And in the place of the boil there shall be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be showed to the priest;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 13:20", "text": "And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [is] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair of it [is] turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 13:21", "text": "But if the priest shall look on it, and behold, [there are] no white hairs in it, and [if] it [is] not lower than the skin, but somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 13:22", "text": "And if it hath spread much in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 13:23", "text": "But if the bright spot shall stay in its place, [and] not spread, it [is] a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 13:24", "text": "Or if there [is any] flesh, in the skin of which [there is] a hot burning, and the live [flesh] that burneth hath a white bright spot, somewhat reddish or white;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 13:25", "text": "Then the priest shall look upon it: and behold, [if] the hair in the bright spot [is] turned white, and it [is in] sight deeper than the skin: it [is] a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague of leprosy." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 13:26", "text": "But if the priest shall look on it, and behold, [there is] no white hair in the bright spot, and it [is] no lower than the [other] skin, but [is] somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 13:27", "text": "And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: [and] if it [is] spread much in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague of leprosy," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 13:28", "text": "And if the bright spot shall stay in its place, [and] not spread in the skin, but [be] somewhat dark; it [is] a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it [is] an inflammation of the burning." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 13:29", "text": "If a man or woman shall have a plague upon the head or the beard;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 13:30", "text": "Then the priest shall see the plague: and behold, if it [is] in sight deeper than the skin, [and there is] in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a dry scall, [even] a leprosy upon the head or beard." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 13:31", "text": "And if the priest shall look on the plague of the scall, and behold, it [is] not in sight deeper than the skin, and no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the plague of the scall seven days:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 13:32", "text": "And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and behold, [if] the scall spreadeth not, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the scall [is] not in sight deeper than the skin;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 13:33", "text": "He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the scall seven days more:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 13:34", "text": "And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and behold, [if] the scall is not spread in the skin, nor [is] in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 13:35", "text": "But if the scall shall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 13:36", "text": "Then the priest shall look on him: and behold, if the scall is spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 13:37", "text": "But if the scall shall be in his sight at a stay, and there is black hair grown in it; the scall is healed, he [is] clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 13:38", "text": "If a man also or a woman shall have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, [even] white bright spots;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 39, "name": "Leviticus 13:39", "text": "Then the priest shall look: and behold, [if] the bright spots in the skin of their flesh [are] darkish white; it [is] a freckled spot [that] groweth in the skin; he [is] clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 40, "name": "Leviticus 13:40", "text": "And the man whose hair hath fallen off his head, he [is] bald; [yet is] he clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 41, "name": "Leviticus 13:41", "text": "And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face, he [is] forehead-bald; [yet is] he clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 42, "name": "Leviticus 13:42", "text": "And if there is in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; [it is] a leprosy sprung up on his bald head, or his bald forehead." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 43, "name": "Leviticus 13:43", "text": "Then the priest shall look upon it: and behold, [if] the rising of the sore is white reddish on his bald head, or on his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 44, "name": "Leviticus 13:44", "text": "He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 45, "name": "Leviticus 13:45", "text": "And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 46, "name": "Leviticus 13:46", "text": "All the days in which the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone, without the camp [shall] his habitation [be]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 47, "name": "Leviticus 13:47", "text": "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether] a woolen garment, or a linen garment;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 48, "name": "Leviticus 13:48", "text": "Whether in the warp, or woof, of linen, or of woolen: whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 49, "name": "Leviticus 13:49", "text": "And if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin: it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 50, "name": "Leviticus 13:50", "text": "And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up [that which hath] the plague seven days:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 51, "name": "Leviticus 13:51", "text": "And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague is spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, [or] in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin: the plague [is] a fretting leprosy; it [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 52, "name": "Leviticus 13:52", "text": "He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woolen or in linen, or any thing of skin, in which the plague is: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 53, "name": "Leviticus 13:53", "text": "And if the priest shall look, and behold, the plague is not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 54, "name": "Leviticus 13:54", "text": "Then the priest shall command that they wash [the thing] in which the plague [is], and he shall shut it up seven days more:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 55, "name": "Leviticus 13:55", "text": "And the priest shall look on the plague after it is washed: and behold, [if] the plague hath not changed its color, and the plague hath not spread; it [is] unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it [is] fret inward, [whether] it [is] bare within or without." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 56, "name": "Leviticus 13:56", "text": "And if the priest shall look, and behold, the plague [is] somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 57, "name": "Leviticus 13:57", "text": "And if it shall appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it [is] a spreading [plague]: thou shalt burn that in which the plague [is], with fire." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 58, "name": "Leviticus 13:58", "text": "And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatever thing of skin [it is], which thou shalt wash, if the plague hath departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 59, "name": "Leviticus 13:59", "text": "This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Leviticus 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 14:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 14:2", "text": "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 14:3", "text": "And the priest shall go forth out of the camp: and the priest shall look, and behold, [if] the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 14:4", "text": "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive, [and] clean, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 14:5", "text": "And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel, over running water." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 14:6", "text": "As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them, and the living bird, in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running water." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 14:7", "text": "And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 14:8", "text": "And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 14:9", "text": "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head, and his beard, and his eye-brows, even all his hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 14:10", "text": "And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth-parts of fine flour [for] a meat-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 14:11", "text": "And the priest that maketh [him] clean, shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 14:12", "text": "And the priest shall take one he-lamb, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them [for] a wave-offering before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 14:13", "text": "And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the holy-place: for as the sin-offering [is] the priest's, [so is] the trespass-offering: it [is] most holy." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 14:14", "text": "And the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 14:15", "text": "And the priest shall take [some] of the log of oil, and pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 14:16", "text": "And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that [is] in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 14:17", "text": "And of the rest of the oil that [is] in his hand, shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 14:18", "text": "And the remnant of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 14:19", "text": "And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 14:20", "text": "And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering, and the meat-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 14:21", "text": "And if he [is] poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass-offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth-part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering, and a log of oil;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 14:22", "text": "And two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 14:23", "text": "And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 14:24", "text": "And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them [for] a wave-offering before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 14:25", "text": "And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 14:26", "text": "And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 14:27", "text": "And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger [some] of the oil that [is] in his left hand seven times before the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 14:28", "text": "And the priest shall put of the oil that [is] in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 14:29", "text": "And the rest of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 14:30", "text": "And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 14:31", "text": "[Even] such as he is able to get, the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering, with the meat-offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed, before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 14:32", "text": "This [is] the law [of him] in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his cleansing." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 14:33", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 14:34", "text": "When ye shall have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 14:35", "text": "And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, it seemeth to me [there is] as it were a plague in the house:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 14:36", "text": "Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest shall enter to see the plague, that all that [is] in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 14:37", "text": "And he shall look on the plague, and behold, [if] the plague [is] in the walls of the house, with hollow streaks, greenish, or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 14:38", "text": "Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "name": "Leviticus 14:39", "text": "And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and behold, [if] the plague is spread in the walls of the house;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "name": "Leviticus 14:40", "text": "Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is], and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "name": "Leviticus 14:41", "text": "And he shall cause the house to be scraped within on all sides, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "name": "Leviticus 14:42", "text": "And they shall take other stones, and put [them] in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "name": "Leviticus 14:43", "text": "And if the plague shall return, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "name": "Leviticus 14:44", "text": "Then the priest shall come and look; and behold, [if] the plague is spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house: it [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "name": "Leviticus 14:45", "text": "And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house: and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city to an unclean place." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 46, "name": "Leviticus 14:46", "text": "Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up, shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 47, "name": "Leviticus 14:47", "text": "And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes: and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 48, "name": "Leviticus 14:48", "text": "And if the priest shall come in, and look [upon it], and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 49, "name": "Leviticus 14:49", "text": "And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 50, "name": "Leviticus 14:50", "text": "And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel, over running water:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 51, "name": "Leviticus 14:51", "text": "And he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 52, "name": "Leviticus 14:52", "text": "And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 53, "name": "Leviticus 14:53", "text": "But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 54, "name": "Leviticus 14:54", "text": "This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 55, "name": "Leviticus 14:55", "text": "And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 56, "name": "Leviticus 14:56", "text": "And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 57, "name": "Leviticus 14:57", "text": "To teach when [it is] unclean, and when [it is] clean: this [is] the law of leprosy." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Leviticus 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 15:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 15:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, [because of] his issue he [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 15:3", "text": "And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh shall run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it [is] his uncleanness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 15:4", "text": "Every bed on which he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing on which he sitteth, shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 15:5", "text": "And whoever toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 15:6", "text": "And he that sitteth on [any] thing on which he sat that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 15:7", "text": "And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 15:8", "text": "And if he that hath the issue shall spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 15:9", "text": "And whatever saddle he rideth upon that hath the issue, shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 15:10", "text": "And whoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and he that beareth [any of] those things, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 15:11", "text": "And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue (and hath not rinsed his hands in water) he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 15:12", "text": "And the vessel of earth that he toucheth who hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 15:13", "text": "And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 15:14", "text": "And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them to the priest:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 15:15", "text": "And the priest shall offer them, the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 15:16", "text": "And if any man's seed of copulation shall go from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 15:17", "text": "And every garment, and every skin on which is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 15:18", "text": "The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 15:19", "text": "And if a woman shall have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 15:20", "text": "And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 15:21", "text": "And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 15:22", "text": "And whoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 15:23", "text": "And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any thing on which she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 15:24", "text": "And if any man shall lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days: and all the bed on which he lieth shall be unclean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 15:25", "text": "And if a woman shall have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it shall run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she [shall be] unclean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 15:26", "text": "Every bed on which she lieth all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her separation: and whatever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 15:27", "text": "And whoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 15:28", "text": "But if she shall be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 15:29", "text": "And on the eighth day she shall take to her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 15:30", "text": "And the priest shall offer the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 15:31", "text": "Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness: that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 15:32", "text": "This [is] the law of him that hath an issue, and [of him] whose seed goeth from him, and [he] is defiled therewith." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 15:33", "text": "And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Leviticus 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 16:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 16:2", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy [place] within the vail, before the mercy-seat, which [is] upon the ark; that he may not die: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 16:3", "text": "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy [place]: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 16:4", "text": "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen miter shall he be attired: these [are] holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and [so] put them on." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 16:5", "text": "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 16:6", "text": "And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin-offering, which [is] for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 16:7", "text": "And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 16:8", "text": "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scape-goat." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 16:9", "text": "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him [for] a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 16:10", "text": "But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scape-goat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scape-goat into the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 16:11", "text": "And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin-offering, which [is] for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which [is] for himself:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 16:12", "text": "And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring [it] within the vail:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 16:13", "text": "And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that [is] upon the testimony, that he may not die." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 16:14", "text": "And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy-seat eastward: and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 16:15", "text": "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering that [is] for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 16:16", "text": "And he shall make an atonement for the holy [place], because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 16:17", "text": "And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy [place], until he shall come out, and shall have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 16:18", "text": "And he shall go out to the altar that [is] before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 16:19", "text": "And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 16:20", "text": "And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy [place], and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 16:21", "text": "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 16:22", "text": "And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities to a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 16:23", "text": "And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy [place], and shall leave them there:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 16:24", "text": "And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy [place], and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 16:25", "text": "And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 16:26", "text": "And he that let go the goat for the scape-goat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 16:27", "text": "And the bullock [for] the sin-offering, and the goat [for] the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy [place], shall [one] carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 16:28", "text": "And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 16:29", "text": "And [this] shall be a statute for ever to you: [that] in the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 16:30", "text": "For on that day shall [the priest] make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, [that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 16:31", "text": "It [shall be] a sabbath of rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 16:32", "text": "And the priest whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, [even] the holy garments:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 16:33", "text": "And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar: and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 16:34", "text": "And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Leviticus 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 17:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 17:2", "text": "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 17:3", "text": "Whatever man [there may be] of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or that killeth [it] out of the camp," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 17:4", "text": "And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed to that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 17:5", "text": "To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest, and offer them [for] peace-offerings to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 17:6", "text": "And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 17:7", "text": "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to idols, with which they have committed idolatry: This shall be a statute for ever to them throughout their generations." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 17:8", "text": "And thou shalt say to them, Whatever man [there may be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 17:9", "text": "And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it to the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 17:10", "text": "And whatever man [there may be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 17:11", "text": "For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 17:12", "text": "Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 17:13", "text": "And whatever man [there may be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, who hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out its blood, and cover it with dust." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 17:14", "text": "For [it is] the life of all flesh, the blood of it [is] for the life of it; therefore I said to the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh [is] its blood: whoever eateth it shall be cut off." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 17:15", "text": "And every soul that eateth that which died [of itself], or that which was torn [with beasts], ([whether it is] one of your own country, or a stranger) he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening; then shall he be clean." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 17:16", "text": "But if he doth not wash [them], nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Leviticus 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 18:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 18:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 18:3", "text": "After the doings of the land of Egypt in which ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 18:4", "text": "Ye shall perform my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk in them; I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 18:5", "text": "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man doeth, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 18:6", "text": "None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 18:7", "text": "The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she [is] thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 18:8", "text": "The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 18:9", "text": "The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 18:10", "text": "The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thy own nakedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 18:11", "text": "The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten by thy father, (she [is] thy sister) thou shalt not uncover her nakedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 18:12", "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she [is] thy father's near kinswoman." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 18:13", "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 18:14", "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thy aunt." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 18:15", "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she [is] thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 18:16", "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 18:17", "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 18:18", "text": "Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-[time]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 18:19", "text": "Also thou shalt not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 18:20", "text": "Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 18:21", "text": "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 18:22", "text": "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 18:23", "text": "Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 18:24", "text": "Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 18:25", "text": "And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 18:26", "text": "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 18:27", "text": "(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 18:28", "text": "That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that [were] before you." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 18:29", "text": "For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 18:30", "text": "Therefore shall ye keep my ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves in them; I [am] the LORD your God." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Leviticus 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 19:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 19:2", "text": "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 19:3", "text": "Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 19:4", "text": "Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 19:5", "text": "And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 19:6", "text": "It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught shall remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 19:7", "text": "And if it shall be eaten at all on the third day, it [is] abominable; it shall not be accepted." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 19:8", "text": "Therefore [every one] that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 19:9", "text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 19:10", "text": "And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 19:11", "text": "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 19:12", "text": "And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 19:13", "text": "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob [him]: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 19:14", "text": "Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 19:15", "text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 19:16", "text": "Thou shalt not go up and down [as] a tale-bearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 19:17", "text": "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 19:18", "text": "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 19:19", "text": "Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle engender with a diverse kind: Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 19:20", "text": "And whoever lieth carnally with a woman that [is] a bond-maid betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged: they shall not be put to death, because she was not free." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 19:21", "text": "And he shall bring his trespass-offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, [even] a ram for a trespass-offering." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 19:22", "text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done; and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 19:23", "text": "And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food; then ye shall count its fruit as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised to you: it shall not be eaten of." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 19:24", "text": "But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy to praise the LORD [with]." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 19:25", "text": "And in the fifth year shall ye eat of its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 19:26", "text": "Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 19:27", "text": "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 19:28", "text": "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 19:29", "text": "Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a harlot: lest the land should fall to lewdness, and the land become full of wickedness." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 19:30", "text": "Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 19:31", "text": "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 19:32", "text": "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 19:33", "text": "And if a stranger shall sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not oppress him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 19:34", "text": "[But] the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be to you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 19:35", "text": "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in weight, in measure of length or of capacity." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 19:36", "text": "Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 19:37", "text": "Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Leviticus 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 20:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 20:2", "text": "Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whoever [he be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth [any] of his seed to Molech, he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 20:3", "text": "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 20:4", "text": "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed to Molech, and kill him not;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 20:5", "text": "Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to commit lewdness with Molech from among their people." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 20:6", "text": "And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go astray after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 20:7", "text": "Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy: for I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 20:8", "text": "And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I [am] the LORD who sanctify you." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 20:9", "text": "For every one that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood [shall be] upon him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 20:10", "text": "And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 20:11", "text": "And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death: their blood [shall be] upon them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 20:12", "text": "And if a man shall lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood [shall be] upon them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 20:13", "text": "If a man also shall lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 20:14", "text": "And if a man shall take a wife and her mother, it [is] wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they: that there be no wickedness among you." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 20:15", "text": "And if a man shall lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 20:16", "text": "And if a woman shall approach to any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 20:17", "text": "And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 20:18", "text": "And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 20:19", "text": "And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 20:20", "text": "And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 20:21", "text": "And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it [is] an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 20:22", "text": "Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, may not vomit you out." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 20:23", "text": "And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 20:24", "text": "But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, who have separated you from [other] people." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 20:25", "text": "Ye shall therefore distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl, or by any manner of living animal that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 20:26", "text": "And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 20:27", "text": "A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Leviticus 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 21:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 21:2", "text": "But for his kin, that is near to him, [that is], for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 21:3", "text": "And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh to him, who hath had no husband: for her he may be defiled." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 21:4", "text": "[But] he shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his people, to profane himself." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 21:5", "text": "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 21:6", "text": "They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, [and] the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 21:7", "text": "They shall not take a wife [that is] a lewd woman, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he [is] holy to his God." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 21:8", "text": "Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy to thee: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, [am] holy." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 21:9", "text": "And the daughter of any priest, if she shall profane herself by lewdness, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 21:10", "text": "And [he that is] the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 21:11", "text": "Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 21:12", "text": "Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 21:13", "text": "And he shall take a wife in her virginity." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 21:14", "text": "A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people for a wife." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 21:15", "text": "Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 21:16", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 21:17", "text": "Speak to Aaron, saying, whoever [he may be] of thy seed in their generations that hath [any] blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 21:18", "text": "For whatever man [he may be] that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 21:19", "text": "Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 21:20", "text": "Or crooked-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his peculiar members broken:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 21:21", "text": "No man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 21:22", "text": "He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the holy." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 21:23", "text": "Only he shall not go in to the vail, nor come nigh to the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 21:24", "text": "And Moses told [it] to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Leviticus 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 22:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 22:2", "text": "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they hallow to me: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 22:3", "text": "Say to them, Whoever [he may be] of all your seed among your generations, that approacheth the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 22:4", "text": "Whatever man of the seed of Aaron [is] a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And whoever toucheth any thing [that is] unclean [by] the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 22:5", "text": "Or whoever toucheth any creeping animal, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he hath:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 22:6", "text": "The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he shall wash his flesh with water." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 22:7", "text": "And when the sun is set, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it [is] his food." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 22:8", "text": "That which dieth of itself, or is torn [by beasts], he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 22:9", "text": "They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 22:10", "text": "There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy thing." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 22:11", "text": "But if the priest shall buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 22:12", "text": "If the priest's daughter also shall be [married] to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 22:13", "text": "But if the priest's daughter shall be a widow, or divorced, and shall have no child, and have returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but there shall no stranger eat of it." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 22:14", "text": "And if a man shall eat [of] the holy thing unknowingly, then he shall put to it the fifth [part], and shall give [it] to the priest, with the holy thing." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 22:15", "text": "And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer to the LORD;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 22:16", "text": "Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 22:17", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 22:18", "text": "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, Whoever [he may be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his free-will-offerings, which they will offer to the LORD for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 22:19", "text": "[Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 22:20", "text": "[But] whatever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 22:21", "text": "And whoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a free-will-offering in beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be in it no blemish." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 22:22", "text": "Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 22:23", "text": "Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a free-will-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 22:24", "text": "Ye shall not offer to the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make [any offering thereof] in your land." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 22:25", "text": "Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [are] in them: they shall not be accepted for you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 22:26", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 22:27", "text": "When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 22:28", "text": "And [whether it is] cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 22:29", "text": "And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, offer it at your own will." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 22:30", "text": "On the same day it shall be eaten up, ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 22:31", "text": "Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 22:32", "text": "Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD who hallow you," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 22:33", "text": "That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Leviticus 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 23:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 23:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 23:3", "text": "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation: ye shall do no work [in it]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 23:4", "text": "These [are] the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 23:5", "text": "In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at evening [is] the LORD'S passover." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 23:6", "text": "And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD, seven days ye must eat unleavened bread." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 23:7", "text": "In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work in it." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 23:8", "text": "But ye shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days: in the seventh day [is] a holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work [in it]." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 23:9", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 23:10", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye shall have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 23:11", "text": "And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 23:12", "text": "And ye shall offer, that day when ye wave the sheaf, a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 23:13", "text": "And the meat-offering thereof [shall be] two tenth-parts of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD [for] a sweet savor: and the drink-offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of a hin." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 23:14", "text": "And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the same day that ye have brought an offering to your God: [It shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 23:15", "text": "And ye shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 23:16", "text": "Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 23:17", "text": "Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth-parts: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, [they are] the first-fruits to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 23:18", "text": "And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt-offering to the LORD, with their meat-offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 23:19", "text": "Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 23:20", "text": "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits [for] a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 23:21", "text": "And ye shall proclaim on the same day, [that] it may be a holy convocation to you: ye shall do no servile work [in it]. [it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 23:22", "text": "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 23:23", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 23:24", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 23:25", "text": "Ye shall do no servile work [in it]; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 23:26", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 23:27", "text": "Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 23:28", "text": "And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it [is] a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 23:29", "text": "For whatever soul [it may be] that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 23:30", "text": "And whatever soul [it may be] that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 23:31", "text": "Ye shall do no manner of work. [It shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 23:32", "text": "It [shall be] to you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth [day] of the month at evening: from evening to evening shall ye celebrate your sabbath." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 23:33", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 23:34", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 23:35", "text": "On the first day [shall be] a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [in it]." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 23:36", "text": "Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: it [is] a solemn assembly; [and] ye shall do no servile work [in it]." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 23:37", "text": "These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, every thing upon its day:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 23:38", "text": "Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your free-will-offerings, which ye give to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "name": "Leviticus 23:39", "text": "Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days: on the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 40, "name": "Leviticus 23:40", "text": "And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 41, "name": "Leviticus 23:41", "text": "And ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 42, "name": "Leviticus 23:42", "text": "Ye shall dwell in booths seven days: all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 43, "name": "Leviticus 23:43", "text": "That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 44, "name": "Leviticus 23:44", "text": "And Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Leviticus 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 24:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 24:2", "text": "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 24:3", "text": "Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually: [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 24:4", "text": "Ye shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 24:5", "text": "And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth-parts shall be in one cake." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 24:6", "text": "And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 24:7", "text": "And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 24:8", "text": "Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 24:9", "text": "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 24:10", "text": "And the son of an Israelitish woman whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 24:11", "text": "And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed: and they brought him to Moses: (and his mother's name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 24:12", "text": "And they put him in custody, that the mind of the LORD might be shown to them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 24:13", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 24:14", "text": "Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard [him] lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 24:15", "text": "And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curseth his God shall bear his sin." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 24:16", "text": "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 24:17", "text": "And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 24:18", "text": "And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 24:19", "text": "And if a man shall cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 24:20", "text": "Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 24:21", "text": "And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 24:22", "text": "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 24:23", "text": "And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Leviticus 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 25:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 25:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 25:3", "text": "Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 25:4", "text": "But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 25:5", "text": "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest to the land." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 25:6", "text": "And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 25:7", "text": "And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase of it be food." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 25:8", "text": "And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to thee forty and nine years." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 25:9", "text": "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound, on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 25:10", "text": "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land to all its inhabitants: it shall be a jubilee to you; and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 25:11", "text": "A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 25:12", "text": "For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 25:13", "text": "In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 25:14", "text": "And if thou shalt sell aught to thy neighbor, or buy [aught] of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 25:15", "text": "According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, [and] according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to thee:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 25:16", "text": "According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell to thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 25:17", "text": "Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 25:18", "text": "Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 25:19", "text": "And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 25:20", "text": "And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow nor gather in our increase:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 25:21", "text": "Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 25:22", "text": "And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit until the ninth year; until its fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store]." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 25:23", "text": "The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land [is] mine, for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 25:24", "text": "And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 25:25", "text": "If thy brother shall have become poor, and have sold [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin shall come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 25:26", "text": "And if the man shall have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 25:27", "text": "Then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 25:28", "text": "But if he shall not be able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 25:29", "text": "And if a man shall sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold: [within] a full year may he redeem it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 25:30", "text": "And if it shall not be redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 25:31", "text": "But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them, shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 25:32", "text": "Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 25:33", "text": "And if a man shall purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession shall go out in the [year of] jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 25:34", "text": "But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it [is] their perpetual possession." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 25:35", "text": "And if thy brother shall have become poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he] may [be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 25:36", "text": "Take thou no interest of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 25:37", "text": "Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy victuals for increase." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 25:38", "text": "I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "name": "Leviticus 25:39", "text": "And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee shall have become poor, and be sold to thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "name": "Leviticus 25:40", "text": "[But] as a hired servant, [and] as a sojourner he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee to the year of jubilee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 41, "name": "Leviticus 25:41", "text": "And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 42, "name": "Leviticus 25:42", "text": "For they [are] my servants, which I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 43, "name": "Leviticus 25:43", "text": "Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 44, "name": "Leviticus 25:44", "text": "Both thy bond-men, and thy bond-maids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are around you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 45, "name": "Leviticus 25:45", "text": "Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 46, "name": "Leviticus 25:46", "text": "And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession, they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 47, "name": "Leviticus 25:47", "text": "And if a sojourner or a stranger shall become rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him shall become poor, and sell himself to the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 48, "name": "Leviticus 25:48", "text": "After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 49, "name": "Leviticus 25:49", "text": "Either his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin to him of his family, may redeem him; or if he is able, he may redeem himself." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 50, "name": "Leviticus 25:50", "text": "And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold to him, to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 51, "name": "Leviticus 25:51", "text": "If [there shall be] yet many years [behind], according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 52, "name": "Leviticus 25:52", "text": "And if there shall remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 53, "name": "Leviticus 25:53", "text": "[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 54, "name": "Leviticus 25:54", "text": "And if he shall not be redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 55, "name": "Leviticus 25:55", "text": "For to me the children of Israel [are] servants, they [are] my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Leviticus 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 26:1", "text": "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 26:2", "text": "Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 26:3", "text": "If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 26:4", "text": "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 26:5", "text": "And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 26:6", "text": "And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid the land of evil beasts, neither shall the sword go through your land." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 26:7", "text": "And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 26:8", "text": "And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 26:9", "text": "For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 26:10", "text": "And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 26:11", "text": "And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 26:12", "text": "And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 26:13", "text": "I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men, and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 26:14", "text": "But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 26:15", "text": "And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 26:16", "text": "I also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 26:17", "text": "And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 26:18", "text": "And if ye will not yet for all this hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 26:19", "text": "And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 26:20", "text": "And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 26:21", "text": "And if ye shall walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 26:22", "text": "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, and your [high]-ways shall be desolate." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 26:23", "text": "And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 26:24", "text": "Then will I also walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 26:25", "text": "And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when ye are gathered within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you: and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 26:26", "text": "[And] when I have broke the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 26:27", "text": "And if ye will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary to me;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 26:28", "text": "Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 26:29", "text": "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 26:30", "text": "And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 26:31", "text": "And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 26:32", "text": "And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 26:33", "text": "And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 26:34", "text": "Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [are] in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "name": "Leviticus 26:35", "text": "As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "name": "Leviticus 26:36", "text": "And upon them that are left [alive] of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall, when none pursueth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "name": "Leviticus 26:37", "text": "And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 38, "name": "Leviticus 26:38", "text": "And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 39, "name": "Leviticus 26:39", "text": "And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 40, "name": "Leviticus 26:40", "text": "If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 41, "name": "Leviticus 26:41", "text": "And [that] I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 42, "name": "Leviticus 26:42", "text": "Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 43, "name": "Leviticus 26:43", "text": "The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 44, "name": "Leviticus 26:44", "text": "And yet for all that, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I [am] the LORD their God." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 45, "name": "Leviticus 26:45", "text": "But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 46, "name": "Leviticus 26:46", "text": "These [are] the statutes, and judgments, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Leviticus 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Leviticus 27:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Leviticus 27:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD, by thy estimation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Leviticus 27:3", "text": "And thy estimation shall be, of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Leviticus 27:4", "text": "And if it [shall be] a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Leviticus 27:5", "text": "And if [it shall be] from five years old even to twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Leviticus 27:6", "text": "And if [it shall be] from a month old even to five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Leviticus 27:7", "text": "And if [it shall be] from sixty years old and above; if a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Leviticus 27:8", "text": "But if he shall be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him: according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Leviticus 27:9", "text": "And if [it shall be] a beast of which men bring an offering to the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such to the LORD shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Leviticus 27:10", "text": "He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange of it shall be holy." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Leviticus 27:11", "text": "And if [it shall be] any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Leviticus 27:12", "text": "And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, [who art] the priest, so shall it be." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Leviticus 27:13", "text": "But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth [part] of it to thy estimation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Leviticus 27:14", "text": "And when a man shall sanctify his house [to be] holy to the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Leviticus 27:15", "text": "And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of thy estimation to it, and it shall be his." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Leviticus 27:16", "text": "And if a man shall sanctify to the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed of it: a homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Leviticus 27:17", "text": "If he shall sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Leviticus 27:18", "text": "But if he shall sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain, even to the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Leviticus 27:19", "text": "And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of thy estimation to it, and it shall be assured to him." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Leviticus 27:20", "text": "And if he will not redeem the field, or if he shall have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Leviticus 27:21", "text": "But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted: the possession of it shall be the priest's." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "Leviticus 27:22", "text": "And if [a man] shall sanctify to the LORD a field which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "Leviticus 27:23", "text": "Then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of thy estimation, [even] to the year of the jubilee, and he shall give thy estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "name": "Leviticus 27:24", "text": "In the year of the jubilee, the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, [even] to him to whom the possession of the land [belonged]." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "name": "Leviticus 27:25", "text": "And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "name": "Leviticus 27:26", "text": "Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether ox, or sheep: it [is] the LORD'S." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "name": "Leviticus 27:27", "text": "And if [it shall be] of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem [it], according to thy estimation, and shall add to it a fifth [part] of it: or if it shall be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "name": "Leviticus 27:28", "text": "Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he hath, [both] of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "name": "Leviticus 27:29", "text": "None devoted, which shall be devoted by men, shall be redeemed: [but] shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "name": "Leviticus 27:30", "text": "And all the tithe of the land, [whether] of the seed of the land, [or] of the fruit of the tree, [is] the LORD'S: [it is] holy to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "name": "Leviticus 27:31", "text": "And if a man will at all redeem [aught] of his tithes, he shall add to it the fifth [part] of it." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "name": "Leviticus 27:32", "text": "And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, [even] of whatever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "name": "Leviticus 27:33", "text": "He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he shall change it at all, then both it and the change of it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "name": "Leviticus 27:34", "text": "These [are] the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 4, "name": "Numbers", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Numbers 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 1:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 1:2", "text": "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families by the house of their fathers, with the number of [their] names, every male by their poll:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 1:3", "text": "From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 1:4", "text": "And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 1:5", "text": "And these [are] the names of the men that shall stand with you: Of [the tribe of] Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 1:6", "text": "Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 1:7", "text": "Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 1:8", "text": "Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 1:9", "text": "Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 1:10", "text": "Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 1:11", "text": "Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 1:12", "text": "Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 1:13", "text": "Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 1:14", "text": "Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 1:15", "text": "Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 1:16", "text": "These [were] the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 1:17", "text": "And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by [their] names:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 1:18", "text": "And they assembled all the congregation on the first [day] of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 1:19", "text": "As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 1:20", "text": "And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 1:21", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 1:22", "text": "Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 1:23", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Simeon, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 1:24", "text": "Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 1:25", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Gad, [were] forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 1:26", "text": "Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 1:27", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Judah, [were] seventy and four thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 1:28", "text": "Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 1:29", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Issachar, [were] fifty and four thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 1:30", "text": "Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 1:31", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Zebulun, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 1:32", "text": "Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 1:33", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Ephraim, [were] forty thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 1:34", "text": "Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 1:35", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Manasseh, [were] thirty and two thousand and two hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 1:36", "text": "Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 1:37", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 1:38", "text": "Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 1:39", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Dan, [were] sixty and two thousand and seven hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 1:40", "text": "Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 1:41", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 1:42", "text": "Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 1:43", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Naphtali, [were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 1:44", "text": "These [are] those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, [being] twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 1:45", "text": "So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 1:46", "text": "Even all they that were numbered, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 1:47", "text": "But the Levites, after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 1:48", "text": "For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 1:49", "text": "Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 1:50", "text": "But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all things that [belong] to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they shall minister to it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "name": "Numbers 1:51", "text": "And when the tabernacle moveth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "name": "Numbers 1:52", "text": "And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "name": "Numbers 1:53", "text": "But the Levites shall pitch around the tabernacle of testimony; that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 54, "name": "Numbers 1:54", "text": "And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Numbers 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 2:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 2:2", "text": "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 2:3", "text": "And on the east side towards the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab [shall be] captain of the children of Judah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 2:4", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] seventy and four thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 2:5", "text": "And those that shall pitch next to him, [shall be] the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar [shall be] captain of the children of Issachar." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 2:6", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of it, [were] fifty and four thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 2:7", "text": "[Then] the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon [shall be] captain of the children of Zebulun." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 2:8", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of it, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 2:9", "text": "All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] a hundred thousand and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred throughout their armies: these shall first move forward." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 2:10", "text": "On the south side [shall be] the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben [shall be] Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 2:11", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of it [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 2:12", "text": "And those who pitch by him [shall be] the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon [shall be] Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 2:13", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 2:14", "text": "Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Reuel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 2:15", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 2:16", "text": "All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] a hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies: and they shall move forward in the second rank." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 2:17", "text": "Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall move forward with the camp of the Levites, in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they move forward, every man in his place by their standards." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 2:18", "text": "On the west side [shall be] the standard of the camp of Ephraim, according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim [shall be] Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 2:19", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 2:20", "text": "And by him [shall be] the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh [shall be] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 2:21", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] thirty and two thousand and two hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 2:22", "text": "Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin [shall be] Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 2:23", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 2:24", "text": "All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim, [were] a hundred thousand and eight thousand and a hundred, throughout their armies: and they shall go forward in the third rank." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 2:25", "text": "The standard of the camp of Dan [shall be] on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 2:26", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] sixty and two thousand and seven hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 2:27", "text": "And those that encamp by him [shall be] the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher [shall be] Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 2:28", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 2:29", "text": "Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali [shall be] Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 2:30", "text": "And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 2:31", "text": "All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan [were] a hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred: they shall go hindmost with their standards." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 2:32", "text": "These [are] those who were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers. All those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts, [were] six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 2:33", "text": "But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 2:34", "text": "And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they moved forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Numbers 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 3:1", "text": "These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day [that] the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 3:2", "text": "And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 3:3", "text": "These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 3:4", "text": "And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 3:5", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 3:6", "text": "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 3:7", "text": "And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 3:8", "text": "And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 3:9", "text": "And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they [are] wholly given to him out of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 3:10", "text": "And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 3:11", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 3:12", "text": "And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel, instead of all the first-born that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 3:13", "text": "Because all the first-born [are] mine; [for] on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed to me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast: mine they shall be: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 3:14", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 3:15", "text": "Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 3:16", "text": "And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 3:17", "text": "And these were the sons of Levi, by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 3:18", "text": "And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 3:19", "text": "And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 3:20", "text": "And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi: these [are] the families of the Levites, according to the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 3:21", "text": "Of Gershon [was] the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these [are] the families of the Gershonites." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 3:22", "text": "Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were numbered of them, [were] seven thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 3:23", "text": "The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 3:24", "text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 3:25", "text": "And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 3:26", "text": "And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it, for all the service of it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 3:27", "text": "And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these [are] the families of the Kohathites." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 3:28", "text": "In the number of all the males from a month old and upward, [were] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 3:29", "text": "The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 3:30", "text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 3:31", "text": "And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the hanging, and all the service of it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 3:32", "text": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be] chief over the chief of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 3:33", "text": "Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 3:34", "text": "And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, [were] six thousand and two hundred." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 3:35", "text": "And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari [was] Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these] shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 3:36", "text": "And [under] the custody and charge of the sons of Merari [shall be] the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all that serveth to it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 3:37", "text": "And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 3:38", "text": "But those that encamp before the tabernacle towards the east, [even] before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward [shall be] Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 3:39", "text": "All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 3:40", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel, from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 3:41", "text": "And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I [am] the LORD) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 3:42", "text": "And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 3:43", "text": "And all the first-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and seventy and three." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 3:44", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 3:45", "text": "Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 3:46", "text": "And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and seventy and three, of the first-born of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 3:47", "text": "Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take [them]: the shekel [is] twenty gerahs." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 3:48", "text": "And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 3:49", "text": "And Moses took the redemption-money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 3:50", "text": "Of the first-born of the children of Israel he took the money; a thousand three hundred and sixty and five [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 51, "name": "Numbers 3:51", "text": "And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Numbers 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 4:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 4:2", "text": "Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 4:3", "text": "From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 4:4", "text": "This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy things." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 4:5", "text": "And when the camp moveth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 4:6", "text": "And shall put on it the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staffs of it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 4:7", "text": "And upon the table of show-bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover with: and the continual bread shall be upon it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 4:8", "text": "And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staffs of it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 4:9", "text": "And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 4:10", "text": "And they shall put it, and all its vessels, within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 4:11", "text": "And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to it its staffs." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 4:12", "text": "And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [them] on a bar." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 4:13", "text": "And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth upon it:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 4:14", "text": "And they shall put upon it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, [even] the censers, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to it its staffs." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 4:15", "text": "And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to move forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear [it]: but they shall not touch [any] holy thing, lest they die. These [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 4:16", "text": "And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertain] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat-offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that [is] in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 4:17", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 4:18", "text": "Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 4:19", "text": "But thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 4:20", "text": "But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 4:21", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 4:22", "text": "Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the house of their fathers, by their families;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 4:23", "text": "From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 4:24", "text": "This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 4:25", "text": "And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, its covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 4:26", "text": "And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 4:27", "text": "At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint to them in charge all their burdens." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 4:28", "text": "This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge [shall be] under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 4:29", "text": "As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 4:30", "text": "From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 4:31", "text": "And this [is] the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 4:32", "text": "And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 4:33", "text": "This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 4:34", "text": "And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 4:35", "text": "From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 4:36", "text": "And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 4:37", "text": "These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 4:38", "text": "And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 4:39", "text": "From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 4:40", "text": "Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 4:41", "text": "These [are] they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 4:42", "text": "And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 4:43", "text": "From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 4:44", "text": "Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 4:45", "text": "These [are] those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 4:46", "text": "All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 4:47", "text": "From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 4:48", "text": "Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and eighty." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 4:49", "text": "According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Numbers 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 5:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 5:2", "text": "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 5:3", "text": "Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst of which I dwell." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 5:4", "text": "And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 5:5", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 5:6", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person shall be guilty;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 5:7", "text": "Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal of it, and add to it the fifth [part] of it, and give [it] to [him] against whom he hath trespassed." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 5:8", "text": "But if the man shall have no kinsman to recompense the trespass to, let the trespass be recompensed to the LORD, [even] to the priest; besides the ram of the atonement, by which an atonement shall be made for him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 5:9", "text": "And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 5:10", "text": "And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth to the priest, it shall be his." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 5:11", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 5:12", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man's wife shall go astray, and commit a trespass against him," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 5:13", "text": "And a man shall lie with her carnally, and it shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the manner];" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 5:14", "text": "And the spirit of jealousy shall come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy shall come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 5:15", "text": "Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley-meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense upon it; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 5:16", "text": "And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 5:17", "text": "And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put [it] into the water:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 5:18", "text": "And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy-offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 5:19", "text": "And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness [with another] instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 5:20", "text": "But if thou hast gone aside [to another] instead of thy husband, and if thou art defiled, and some man hath lain with thee besides thy husband:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 5:21", "text": "Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to perish, and thy belly to swell;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 5:22", "text": "And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to perish. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 5:23", "text": "And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 5:24", "text": "And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 5:25", "text": "Then the priest shall take the jealousy-offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 5:26", "text": "And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, [even] the memorial of it, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 5:27", "text": "And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, [that], if she is defiled, and hath done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall perish: and the woman shall be a curse among her people." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 5:28", "text": "And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 5:29", "text": "This [is] the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray [to another] instead of her husband, and is defiled;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 5:30", "text": "Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he is jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 5:31", "text": "Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Numbers 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 6:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 6:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate [themselves] to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 6:3", "text": "He shall separate [himself] from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 6:4", "text": "All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine-tree, from the kernels even to the husk." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 6:5", "text": "All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days shall be fulfilled, in which he separateth [himself] to the LORD, he shall be holy, [and] shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 6:6", "text": "All the days that he separateth [himself] to the LORD, he shall come at no dead body." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 6:7", "text": "He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God [is] upon his head." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 6:8", "text": "All the days of his separation he [is] holy to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 6:9", "text": "And if any man shall die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 6:10", "text": "And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 6:11", "text": "And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 6:12", "text": "And he shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass-offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 6:13", "text": "And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 6:14", "text": "And he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one he-lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 6:15", "text": "And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat-offering and their drink-offerings." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 6:16", "text": "And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 6:17", "text": "And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat-offering, and his drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 6:18", "text": "And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put [it] in the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 6:19", "text": "And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put [them] upon the hands of the Nazarite, after [the hair of] his separation is shaven:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 6:20", "text": "And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave-offering before the LORD: this [is] holy for the priest, with the wave-breast, and heave-shoulder: and after that, the Nazarite may drink wine." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 6:21", "text": "This [is] the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of] his offering to the LORD for his separation, besides [that] which his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 6:22", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 6:23", "text": "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 6:24", "text": "The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 6:25", "text": "The LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious to thee:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 6:26", "text": "The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 6:27", "text": "And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Numbers 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 7:1", "text": "And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all its instruments, both the altar and all its vessels, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 7:2", "text": "That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 7:3", "text": "And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 7:4", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 7:5", "text": "Take [it] of them, that they may be to perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 7:6", "text": "And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 7:7", "text": "Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 7:8", "text": "And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 7:9", "text": "But to the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging to them [was that] they should bear upon their shoulders." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 7:10", "text": "And the princes offered for dedicating the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 7:11", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 7:12", "text": "And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 7:13", "text": "And his offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them [were] full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 7:14", "text": "One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 7:15", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 7:16", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 7:17", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year; this [was] the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 7:18", "text": "On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, offered." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 7:19", "text": "He offered [for] his offering one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 7:20", "text": "One spoon of gold of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 7:21", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 7:22", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 7:23", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 7:24", "text": "On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 7:25", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 7:26", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 7:27", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 7:28", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 7:29", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Eliab the son of Helon." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 7:30", "text": "On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 7:31", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, of the weight of a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 7:32", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 7:33", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 7:34", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 7:35", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 7:36", "text": "On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 7:37", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 7:38", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 7:39", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 7:40", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 7:41", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 7:42", "text": "On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 7:43", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, of the weight of a hundred and thirty [shekels], a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 7:44", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 7:45", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 7:46", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 7:47", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 7:48", "text": "On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 7:49", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 7:50", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "name": "Numbers 7:51", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 52, "name": "Numbers 7:52", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 53, "name": "Numbers 7:53", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 54, "name": "Numbers 7:54", "text": "On the eighth day [offered] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 55, "name": "Numbers 7:55", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 56, "name": "Numbers 7:56", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 57, "name": "Numbers 7:57", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 58, "name": "Numbers 7:58", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 59, "name": "Numbers 7:59", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 60, "name": "Numbers 7:60", "text": "On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 61, "name": "Numbers 7:61", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 62, "name": "Numbers 7:62", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 63, "name": "Numbers 7:63", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 64, "name": "Numbers 7:64", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 65, "name": "Numbers 7:65", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 66, "name": "Numbers 7:66", "text": "On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 67, "name": "Numbers 7:67", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 68, "name": "Numbers 7:68", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 69, "name": "Numbers 7:69", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 70, "name": "Numbers 7:70", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 71, "name": "Numbers 7:71", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 72, "name": "Numbers 7:72", "text": "On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 73, "name": "Numbers 7:73", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 74, "name": "Numbers 7:74", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 75, "name": "Numbers 7:75", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 76, "name": "Numbers 7:76", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 77, "name": "Numbers 7:77", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 78, "name": "Numbers 7:78", "text": "On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, [offered]:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 79, "name": "Numbers 7:79", "text": "His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight of which [was] a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 80, "name": "Numbers 7:80", "text": "One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 81, "name": "Numbers 7:81", "text": "One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 82, "name": "Numbers 7:82", "text": "One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 83, "name": "Numbers 7:83", "text": "And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 84, "name": "Numbers 7:84", "text": "This [was] the dedication of the altar (in the day when it was anointed) by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 85, "name": "Numbers 7:85", "text": "Each charger of silver [weighing] a hundred and thirty [shekels], each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand and four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 86, "name": "Numbers 7:86", "text": "The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of incense, [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons [was] a hundred and twenty [shekels]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 87, "name": "Numbers 7:87", "text": "All the oxen for the burnt-offering [were] twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat-offering: and the kids of the goats for sin-offering, twelve." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 88, "name": "Numbers 7:88", "text": "And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings [were] twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 89, "name": "Numbers 7:89", "text": "And when Moses had entered into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking to him from off the mercy-seat that [was] upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Numbers 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 8:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 8:2", "text": "Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 8:3", "text": "And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps of it over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 8:4", "text": "And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, to its shaft, to the flowers of it, [was] beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 8:5", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 8:6", "text": "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 8:7", "text": "And thus shalt thou do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and [so] make themselves clean." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 8:8", "text": "Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-offering, [even] fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 8:9", "text": "And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt convene the whole assembly of the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 8:10", "text": "And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 8:11", "text": "And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 8:12", "text": "And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering, to the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 8:13", "text": "And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 8:14", "text": "Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 8:15", "text": "And after that shall the Levites go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them [for] an offering." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 8:16", "text": "For they [are] wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, [even instead of] the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them to me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 8:17", "text": "For all the first born of the children of Israel [are] mine, [both] man and beast: on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 8:18", "text": "And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 8:19", "text": "And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there may be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh to the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 8:20", "text": "And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel to them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 8:21", "text": "And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them [as] an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 8:22", "text": "And after that went the Levites in to perform their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they to them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 8:23", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 8:24", "text": "This [is it] that [belongeth] to the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 8:25", "text": "And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service [of it], and shall serve no more:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 8:26", "text": "But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do to the Levites concerning their charge." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Numbers 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 9:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 9:2", "text": "Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at its appointed season." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 9:3", "text": "In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all its rites, and according to all its ceremonies, shall ye keep it." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 9:4", "text": "And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 9:5", "text": "And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at evening in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 9:6", "text": "And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 9:7", "text": "And those men said to him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 9:8", "text": "And Moses said to them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 9:9", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 9:10", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 9:11", "text": "The fourteenth day of the second month at evening, they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 9:12", "text": "They shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 9:13", "text": "But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 9:14", "text": "And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover to the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner of it, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 9:15", "text": "And on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at evening there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 9:16", "text": "So it was always; the cloud covered it [by day], and the appearance of fire by night." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 9:17", "text": "And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 9:18", "text": "At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 9:19", "text": "And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 9:20", "text": "And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 9:21", "text": "And [so] it was, when the cloud abode from evening to the morning, and [that] the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether [it was] by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 9:22", "text": "Or [whether it was] two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining upon it, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 9:23", "text": "At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Numbers 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 10:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 10:2", "text": "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them; that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 10:3", "text": "And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 10:4", "text": "And if they blow [but] with one [trumpet], then the princes, [who are] heads of the thousands of Israel, shall assemble themselves to thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 10:5", "text": "When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 10:6", "text": "When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 10:7", "text": "But when the congregation is to be convened, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 10:8", "text": "And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 10:9", "text": "And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 10:10", "text": "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 10:11", "text": "And it came to pass on the twentieth [day] of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 10:12", "text": "And the children of Israel took their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 10:13", "text": "And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 10:14", "text": "In the first [place] went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host [was] Nahshon the son of Amminadab." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 10:15", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar [was] Nethaneel the son of Zuar." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 10:16", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun [was] Eliab the son of Helon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 10:17", "text": "And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari moved forward, bearing the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 10:18", "text": "And the standard of the camp of Reuben moved forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elizur the son of Shedeur." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 10:19", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon [was] Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 10:20", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad [was] Eliasaph the son of Deuel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 10:21", "text": "And the Kohathites moved forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the other] set up the tabernacle against they came." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 10:22", "text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim moved forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 10:23", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh [was] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 10:24", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin [was] Abidan the son of Gideoni." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 10:25", "text": "And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan moved forward, [which was] the rear-ward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 10:26", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher [was] Pagiel the son of Ocran." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 10:27", "text": "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali [was] Ahira the son of Enan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 10:28", "text": "Thus [were] the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they moved forward." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 10:29", "text": "And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses's father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 10:30", "text": "And he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 10:31", "text": "And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 10:32", "text": "And it shall be, if thou wilt go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 10:33", "text": "And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to seek a resting-place for them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 10:34", "text": "And the cloud of the LORD [was] upon them by day, when they went out of the camp." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 10:35", "text": "And it came to pass, when the ark moved forward, that Moses said, Arise, LORD, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 10:36", "text": "And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Numbers 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 11:1", "text": "And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD; and the LORD heard [it]: and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts of the camp." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 11:2", "text": "And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 11:3", "text": "And he called the name of the place Taberah; because the fire of the LORD burnt among them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 11:4", "text": "And the mixed multitude that [was] among them fell to lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 11:5", "text": "We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt freely: the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 11:6", "text": "But now our soul [is] dried away; [there is] nothing at all, besides this manna, [before] our eyes." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 11:7", "text": "And the manna [was] as coriander-seed, and the color of it as the color of bdellium." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 11:8", "text": "[And] the people went about, and gathered [it] and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 11:9", "text": "And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 11:10", "text": "Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly: Moses also was displeased." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 11:11", "text": "And Moses said to the LORD, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? and why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 11:12", "text": "Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father beareth the sucking child, to the land which thou sworest to their fathers?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 11:13", "text": "Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 11:14", "text": "I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 11:15", "text": "And if thou dealest thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 11:16", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 11:17", "text": "And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which [is] upon thee, and will put [it] upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou mayest not bear it thyself alone." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 11:18", "text": "And say thou to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 11:19", "text": "Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 11:20", "text": "[But] even a whole month, until it shall come out at your nostrils, and it be lothsome to you; because ye have despised the LORD who [is] among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 11:21", "text": "And Moses said, The people among whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 11:22", "text": "Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice for them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered for them, to suffice for them?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 11:23", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Is the LORD'S hand shortened? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass to thee, or not." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 11:24", "text": "And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 11:25", "text": "And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that [was] upon him, and gave [it] to the seventy elders: and it came to pass, [that] when the spirit rested upon them; they prophesied, and did not cease." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 11:26", "text": "But there remained two [of the] men in the camp, the name of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them, and they [were] of them that were described, but went not out to the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 11:27", "text": "And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 11:28", "text": "And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord, Moses, forbid them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 11:29", "text": "And Moses said to him, Enviest thou for my sake? I would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put his spirit upon them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 11:30", "text": "And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 11:31", "text": "And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and as it were two cubits [high] upon the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 11:32", "text": "And the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread [them] all abroad for themselves around the camp." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 11:33", "text": "And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 11:34", "text": "And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 11:35", "text": "[And] the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah to Hazeroth: and abode at Hazeroth." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Numbers 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 12:1", "text": "And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married: for he had married a Cushite woman." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 12:2", "text": "And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoke only by Moses? hath he not spoke also by us? And the LORD heard [it]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 12:3", "text": "(Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men who [were] upon the face of the earth.)" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 12:4", "text": "And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out ye three to the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 12:5", "text": "And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood [in] the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 12:6", "text": "And he said, Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, [and] will speak to him in a dream." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 12:7", "text": "My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all my house." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 12:8", "text": "With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 12:9", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 12:10", "text": "And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, [she was] leprous." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 12:11", "text": "And Aaron said to Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 12:12", "text": "Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed at the time of his birth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 12:13", "text": "And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 12:14", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received [again]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 12:15", "text": "And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 12:16", "text": "And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Numbers 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 13:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 13:2", "text": "Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 13:3", "text": "And Moses, by the commandment of the LORD, sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 13:4", "text": "And these [were] their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 13:5", "text": "Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 13:6", "text": "Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 13:7", "text": "Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 13:8", "text": "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 13:9", "text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 13:10", "text": "Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 13:11", "text": "Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manassah, Gaddi the son of Susi." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 13:12", "text": "Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 13:13", "text": "Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 13:14", "text": "Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 13:15", "text": "Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 13:16", "text": "These [are] the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 13:17", "text": "And Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go ye up this [way] southward, and ascend the mountain:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 13:18", "text": "And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that dwell therein, whether they [are] strong or weak, few or many;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 13:19", "text": "And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it [is] good or bad; and what cities [they are] that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 13:20", "text": "And what the land [is], whether it [is] fertile or barren, whether there is wood in it, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of the first ripe grapes." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 13:21", "text": "So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men come to Hamath." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 13:22", "text": "And they ascended by the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 13:23", "text": "And they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a staff; and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 13:24", "text": "The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 13:25", "text": "And they returned from exploring the land after forty days." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 13:26", "text": "And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 13:27", "text": "And they told him, and said, We came to the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this [is] the fruit of it." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 13:28", "text": "Nevertheless, the people [are] strong that dwell in the land, and the cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and moreover, we saw the children of Anak there." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 13:29", "text": "The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 13:30", "text": "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 13:31", "text": "But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they [are] stronger than we." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 13:32", "text": "And they brought an evil report of the land which they had searched to the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have passed to search it, [is] a land that eateth up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it, [are] men of a great stature." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 13:33", "text": "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [who come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Numbers 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 14:1", "text": "And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 14:2", "text": "And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, O that we had died in the land of Egypt! or O that we had died in this wilderness!" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 14:3", "text": "And why hath the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 14:4", "text": "And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 14:5", "text": "Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 14:6", "text": "And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [who were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 14:7", "text": "And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 14:8", "text": "If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 14:9", "text": "Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defense has departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 14:10", "text": "But all the congregation required to stone them with stones: and the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 14:11", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 14:12", "text": "I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 14:13", "text": "And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 14:14", "text": "And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day-time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 14:15", "text": "Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 14:16", "text": "Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 14:17", "text": "And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 14:18", "text": "The LORD [is] long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generation]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 14:19", "text": "Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt, even until now." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 14:20", "text": "And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 14:21", "text": "But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 14:22", "text": "Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 14:23", "text": "Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 14:24", "text": "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 14:25", "text": "(Now the Amalekites, and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and pass into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 14:26", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 14:27", "text": "How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 14:28", "text": "Say to them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 14:29", "text": "Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 14:30", "text": "Doubtless ye shall not come into the land [concerning] which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 14:31", "text": "But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 14:32", "text": "But [as for] you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 14:33", "text": "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 14:34", "text": "After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days (each day for a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 14:35", "text": "I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered against me: in this wilderness, they shall be consumed, and there they shall die." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 14:36", "text": "And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing a slander upon the land," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 14:37", "text": "Even those men that brought the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 14:38", "text": "But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [who were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 14:39", "text": "And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 14:40", "text": "And they rose early in the morning, and ascended to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [are here], and will go up to the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 14:41", "text": "And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 14:42", "text": "Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 14:43", "text": "For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 14:44", "text": "But they presumed to go up to the hill-top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 14:45", "text": "Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] to Hormah." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Numbers 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 15:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 15:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye shall have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 15:3", "text": "And will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a free-will-offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 15:4", "text": "Then shall he that offereth his offering to the LORD bring a meat-offering of a tenth part of flour mingled with the fourth [part] of a hin of oil." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 15:5", "text": "And the fourth [part] of a hin of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice, for one lamb." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 15:6", "text": "Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare [for] a meat-offering two tenth parts of flour mingled with the third [part] of a hin of oil." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 15:7", "text": "And for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third [part] of a hin of wine, [for] a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 15:8", "text": "And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt-offering, or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace-offerings to the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 15:9", "text": "Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat-offering of three tenth parts of flour mingled with half a hin of oil." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 15:10", "text": "And thou shalt bring for a drink-offering half a hin of wine, [for] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 15:11", "text": "Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 15:12", "text": "According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 15:13", "text": "All that are born in the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 15:14", "text": "And if a stranger shall sojourn with you, or whoever shall [be] among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 15:15", "text": "One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with you], an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye [are], so shall the stranger be before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 15:16", "text": "One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 15:17", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 15:18", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 15:19", "text": "Then it shall be, that when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 15:20", "text": "Ye shall offer a cake of the first of your dough [for] a heave-offering: as [ye do] the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 15:21", "text": "Of the first of your dough ye shall give to the LORD a heave-offering in your generations." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 15:22", "text": "And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments which the LORD hath spoken to Moses," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 15:23", "text": "[Even] all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded [Moses], and henceforward among your generations;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 15:24", "text": "Then it shall be, if [aught] shall be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with his meat-offering, and his drink-offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 15:25", "text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it [is] ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 15:26", "text": "And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people [were] in ignorance." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 15:27", "text": "And if any soul shall sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 15:28", "text": "And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 15:29", "text": "Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 15:30", "text": "But the soul that doeth [aught] presumptuously, [whether he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 15:31", "text": "Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 15:32", "text": "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 15:33", "text": "And they that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 15:34", "text": "And they put him in custody, because it was not declared what should be done to him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 15:35", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 15:36", "text": "And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 15:37", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 15:38", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribin of blue:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 15:39", "text": "And it shall be to you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 15:40", "text": "That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 15:41", "text": "I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD your God." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Numbers 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 16:1", "text": "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 16:2", "text": "And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 16:3", "text": "And they assembled themselves against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: why then do ye raise yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 16:4", "text": "And when Moses heard [it], he fell upon his face:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 16:5", "text": "And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even to-morrow the LORD will show who [are] his, and [who is] holy; and will cause [him] to come near to him: even [him] whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near to him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 16:6", "text": "This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 16:7", "text": "And put fire in them, and put incense in them before the LORD to-morrow: and it shall be [that] the man whom the LORD doth choose, he [shall be] holy: [ye take] too much upon you, ye sons of Levi." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 16:8", "text": "And Moses said to Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 16:9", "text": "[Seemeth it but] a small thing to you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 16:10", "text": "And he hath brought thee near [to him], and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 16:11", "text": "For which cause [both] thou and all thy company [are] assembled against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur against him?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 16:12", "text": "And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: who said, We will not come up:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 16:13", "text": "[Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 16:14", "text": "Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 16:15", "text": "And Moses was very wroth, and said to the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 16:16", "text": "And Moses said to Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 16:17", "text": "And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also and Aaron each [of you] his censer." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 16:18", "text": "And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on them, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 16:19", "text": "And Korah gathered all the congregation against them to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 16:20", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 16:21", "text": "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 16:22", "text": "And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 16:23", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 16:24", "text": "Speak to the congregation, saying, Withdraw yourselves from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 16:25", "text": "And Moses rose up, and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 16:26", "text": "And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 16:27", "text": "So they withdrew from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 16:28", "text": "And Moses said, by this ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works: for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 16:29", "text": "If these men shall die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; [then] the LORD hath not sent me." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 16:30", "text": "But if the LORD shall make a new thing, and the earth shall open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] to them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 16:31", "text": "And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground cleaved asunder that [was] under them:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 16:32", "text": "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] to Korah, and [all their] goods." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 16:33", "text": "They, and all that [appertained] to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 16:34", "text": "And all Israel that [were] round about them, fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also]." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 16:35", "text": "And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 16:36", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 16:37", "text": "Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 16:38", "text": "The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 16:39", "text": "And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, with which they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad [plates for] a covering of the altar:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 16:40", "text": "[To be] a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, who [is] not of the seed of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he may not be as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 16:41", "text": "But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 16:42", "text": "And it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked towards the tabernacle of the congregation: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 16:43", "text": "And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 16:44", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 16:45", "text": "Remove from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 16:46", "text": "And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire in it from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 16:47", "text": "And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 16:48", "text": "And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 16:49", "text": "Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 16:50", "text": "And Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Numbers 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 17:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 17:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of [their] fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers, twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 17:3", "text": "And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 17:4", "text": "And thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 17:5", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, by which they murmur against you." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 17:6", "text": "And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 17:7", "text": "And Moses laid the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 17:8", "text": "And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 17:9", "text": "And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 17:10", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again, before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 17:11", "text": "And Moses did [so]: as the LORD commanded him, so did he." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 17:12", "text": "And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 17:13", "text": "Whoever approacheth the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?" } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Numbers 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 18:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 18:2", "text": "And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined to thee, and minister to thee: but thou and thy sons with thee [shall minister] before the tabernacle of witness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 18:3", "text": "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 18:4", "text": "And they shall be joined to thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh to you." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 18:5", "text": "And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 18:6", "text": "And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you [they are] given [as] a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 18:7", "text": "Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office [to you as] a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 18:8", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 18:9", "text": "This shall be thine of the most holy things [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for thy sons." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 18:10", "text": "In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 18:11", "text": "And this [is] thine; the heave-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 18:12", "text": "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, them have I given to thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 18:13", "text": "[And] whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat [of] it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 18:14", "text": "Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 18:15", "text": "Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, [whether] of men or beast, shall be thine: nevertheless, the first born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 18:16", "text": "And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thy estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 18:17", "text": "But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they [are] holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat [for] an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 18:18", "text": "And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 18:19", "text": "All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given to thee, and to thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it [is] a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD to thee and to thy seed with thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 18:20", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 18:21", "text": "And behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, [even] the service of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 18:22", "text": "Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 18:23", "text": "But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [It shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 18:24", "text": "But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer [as] a heave-offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 18:25", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 18:26", "text": "Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of the tithe." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 18:27", "text": "And [this] your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though [it were] the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine-press." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 18:28", "text": "Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering to the LORD of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give of them the LORD'S heave-offering to Aaron the priest." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 18:29", "text": "Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD, of all the best of it, [even] its hallowed part out of it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 18:30", "text": "Therefore thou shalt say to them, When ye have heaved from it the best of it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 18:31", "text": "And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 18:32", "text": "And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Numbers 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 19:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 19:2", "text": "This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, in which [is] no blemish, [and] upon which never came a yoke:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 19:3", "text": "And ye shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her before his face:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 19:4", "text": "And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 19:5", "text": "And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 19:6", "text": "And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 19:7", "text": "Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 19:8", "text": "And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 19:9", "text": "And a man [that is] clean shall gather the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel, for a water of separation: it [is] a purification for sin." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 19:10", "text": "And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 19:11", "text": "He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 19:12", "text": "He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he shall not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 19:13", "text": "Whoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 19:14", "text": "This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 19:15", "text": "And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 19:16", "text": "And whoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 19:17", "text": "And for an unclean [person] they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put to it in a vessel:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 19:18", "text": "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 19:19", "text": "And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 19:20", "text": "But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him: he [is] unclean." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 19:21", "text": "And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until the evening." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 19:22", "text": "And whatever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until the evening." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Numbers 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 20:1", "text": "Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month; and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 20:2", "text": "And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves against Moses and against Aaron." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 20:3", "text": "And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 20:4", "text": "And why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 20:5", "text": "And why have ye conducted us from Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? it [is] no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] there any water to drink." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 20:6", "text": "And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared to them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 20:7", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 20:8", "text": "Take the rod, and convene thou the assembly, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye to the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth its water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give drink to the congregation and their beasts." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 20:9", "text": "And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 20:10", "text": "And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 20:11", "text": "And Moses lifted his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 20:12", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 20:13", "text": "This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 20:14", "text": "And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 20:15", "text": "How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians afflicted us, and our fathers:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 20:16", "text": "And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth from Egypt: and behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 20:17", "text": "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink [of] the water of the wells: we will go by the king's [high]-way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 20:18", "text": "And Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 20:19", "text": "And the children of Israel said to him, We will go by the highway: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without [doing] any thing [else], go through on my feet." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 20:20", "text": "And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 20:21", "text": "Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 20:22", "text": "And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came to mount Hor." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 20:23", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 20:24", "text": "Aaron shall be gathered to his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 20:25", "text": "Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to mount Hor:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 20:26", "text": "And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 20:27", "text": "And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they ascended mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 20:28", "text": "And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 20:29", "text": "And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Numbers 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 21:1", "text": "And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south, heard that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took [some] of them prisoners." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 21:2", "text": "And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 21:3", "text": "And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 21:4", "text": "And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 21:5", "text": "And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul lotheth this light bread." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 21:6", "text": "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 21:7", "text": "Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 21:8", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 21:9", "text": "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 21:10", "text": "And the children of Israel moved forward, and pitched in Oboth." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 21:11", "text": "And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, towards the sun-rising." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 21:12", "text": "From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 21:13", "text": "From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 21:14", "text": "Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 21:15", "text": "And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 21:16", "text": "And from thence [they went] to Beer: that [is] the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Assemble the people, and I will give them water." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 21:17", "text": "Then Israel sung this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye to it:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 21:18", "text": "The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the lawgiver, with their staffs. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 21:19", "text": "And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 21:20", "text": "And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh towards Jeshimon." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 21:21", "text": "And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 21:22", "text": "Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the well: [but] we will go along by the king's [high]-way, until we have past thy borders." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 21:23", "text": "And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon collected all his people, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 21:24", "text": "And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon [was] strong." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 21:25", "text": "And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 21:26", "text": "For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 21:27", "text": "Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 21:28", "text": "For there has a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the lords of the high places of Arnon." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 21:29", "text": "Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 21:30", "text": "We have shot at them; Heshbon has perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which [reacheth] to Medeba." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 21:31", "text": "Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 21:32", "text": "And Moses sent to explore Jaazer, and they took its villages, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 21:33", "text": "And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 21:34", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 21:35", "text": "So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left to him alive: and they possessed his land." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Numbers 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 22:1", "text": "And the children of Israel moved forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side of Jordan [by] Jericho." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 22:2", "text": "And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 22:3", "text": "And Moab was greatly afraid of the people, because they [were] many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 22:4", "text": "And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all [that are] around us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor [was] king of the Moabites at that time." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 22:5", "text": "He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which [is] by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there has a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 22:6", "text": "Come now therefore, I pray thee, Curse for me this people; for they [are] too mighty for me: it may be I shall prevail, [that] we may smite them, and [that] I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest [is] blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 22:7", "text": "And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 22:8", "text": "And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 22:9", "text": "And God came to Balaam, and said, What men [are] these with thee?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 22:10", "text": "And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent to me, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 22:11", "text": "Behold, [there has] a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse them for me: it may be I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 22:12", "text": "And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 22:13", "text": "And Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Depart into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 22:14", "text": "And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 22:15", "text": "And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 22:16", "text": "And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming to me:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 22:17", "text": "For I will promote thee to very great honor, and I will do whatever thou sayest to me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse this people for me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 22:18", "text": "And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 22:19", "text": "Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say to me more." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 22:20", "text": "And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call thee, rise [and] go with them; but yet the word which I shall say to thee, that shalt thou perform." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 22:21", "text": "And Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 22:22", "text": "And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were] with him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 22:23", "text": "And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 22:24", "text": "But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall [being] on this side, and a wall on that side." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 22:25", "text": "And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 22:26", "text": "And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where [was] no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 22:27", "text": "And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 22:28", "text": "And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 22:29", "text": "And Balaam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 22:30", "text": "And the ass said to Balaam, [Am] not I thy ass, upon which thou hast rid ever since [I was] thine to this day? was I ever wont to do so to thee? And he said, Nay." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 22:31", "text": "Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 22:32", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why hast thou smitten thy ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because [thy] way is perverse before me:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 22:33", "text": "And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 22:34", "text": "And Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displeaseth thee, I will return again." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 22:35", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak to thee, that thou shalt speak: So Balaam went with the princes of Balak." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 22:36", "text": "And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to a city of Moab, which [is] in the border of Arnon, which [is] in the utmost limit." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 22:37", "text": "And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to thee to call thee? why camest thou not to me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 22:38", "text": "And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 22:39", "text": "And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjath-huzoth." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 22:40", "text": "And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that [were] with him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 22:41", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and conducted him to the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost [part] of the people." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Numbers 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 23:1", "text": "And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 23:2", "text": "And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 23:3", "text": "And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: it may be the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a high place." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 23:4", "text": "And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 23:5", "text": "And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 23:6", "text": "And he returned to him and lo, he stood by his burnt-sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 23:7", "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 23:8", "text": "How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 23:9", "text": "For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 23:10", "text": "Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 23:11", "text": "And Balak said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I took thee to curse my enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 23:12", "text": "And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 23:13", "text": "And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and from thence curse them for me." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 23:14", "text": "And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 23:15", "text": "And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 23:16", "text": "And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say thus." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 23:17", "text": "And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the LORD spoken?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 23:18", "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Rise, Balak, and hear; hearken to me, thou son of Zippor:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 23:19", "text": "God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoke, and shall he not make it good?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 23:20", "text": "Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 23:21", "text": "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a king [is] among them." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 23:22", "text": "God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 23:23", "text": "Surely [there is] no enchantment against Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 23:24", "text": "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he shall eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 23:25", "text": "And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 23:26", "text": "But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 23:27", "text": "And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee to another place; perhaps it will please God that thou mayest from thence curse them for me." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 23:28", "text": "And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looketh towards Jeshimon." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 23:29", "text": "And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 23:30", "text": "And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Numbers 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 24:1", "text": "And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 24:2", "text": "And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 24:3", "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 24:4", "text": "He hath said, who heard the words of God, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance], but having his eyes open:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 24:5", "text": "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O Israel!" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 24:6", "text": "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign-aloes which the LORD hath planted, [and] as cedar-trees beside the waters." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 24:7", "text": "He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 24:8", "text": "God brought him forth from Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] through with his arrows." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 24:9", "text": "He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall rouse him? Blessed [is] he that blesseth thee, and cursed [is] he that curseth thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 24:10", "text": "And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said to Balaam, I called thee to curse my enemies, and behold, thou hast altogether blessed [them] these three times." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 24:11", "text": "Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee to great honor; but lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honor." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 24:12", "text": "And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not speak also to thy messengers whom thou sentest to me, saying," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 24:13", "text": "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do [either] good or bad of my own mind; [but] what the LORD saith, that will I speak?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 24:14", "text": "And now, behold, I go to my people: come [therefore], I will advertise thee what this people will do to thy people in the latter days." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 24:15", "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 24:16", "text": "He hath said, who heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, [who] saw the vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance], but having his eyes open:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 24:17", "text": "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 24:18", "text": "And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 24:19", "text": "Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 24:20", "text": "And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations, but his latter end [shall be] that he shall perish for ever." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 24:21", "text": "And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 24:22", "text": "Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asher shall carry thee away captive." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 24:23", "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 24:24", "text": "And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 24:25", "text": "And Balaam arose, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Numbers 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 25:1", "text": "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit lewdness with the daughters of Moab." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 25:2", "text": "And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 25:3", "text": "And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 25:4", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 25:5", "text": "And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baal-peor." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 25:6", "text": "And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who [were] weeping [before] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 25:7", "text": "And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw [it], he rose from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 25:8", "text": "And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 25:9", "text": "And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 25:10", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 25:11", "text": "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, (while he was zealous for my sake among them,) that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 25:12", "text": "Wherefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 25:13", "text": "And he shall have it, and his seed after him, [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 25:14", "text": "Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, [even] that was slain with the Midianitish woman, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 25:15", "text": "And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain [was] Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he [was] head over a people, [and] of a chief house in Midian." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 25:16", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 25:17", "text": "Distress the Midianites, and smite them:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 25:18", "text": "For they distress you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian their sister, who was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Numbers 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 26:1", "text": "And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 26:2", "text": "Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 26:3", "text": "And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 26:4", "text": "[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who went forth from the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 26:5", "text": "Reuben the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, [of whom cometh] the family of the Hanochites: Of Phallu, the family of the Phalluites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 26:6", "text": "Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 26:7", "text": "These [are] the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 26:8", "text": "And the sons of Phallu; Eliab." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 26:9", "text": "And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This [is that] Dathan and Abiram, [who were] famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 26:10", "text": "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 26:11", "text": "Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 26:12", "text": "The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 26:13", "text": "Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 26:14", "text": "These [are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 26:15", "text": "The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggai, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 26:16", "text": "Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 26:17", "text": "Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 26:18", "text": "These [are] the families of the children of Gad, according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 26:19", "text": "The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 26:20", "text": "And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 26:21", "text": "And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 26:22", "text": "These [are] the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, seventy six thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 26:23", "text": "[Of] the sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 26:24", "text": "Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 26:25", "text": "These [are] the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, sixty four thousand and three hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 26:26", "text": "[Of] the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 26:27", "text": "These [are] the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, sixty thousand and five hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 26:28", "text": "The sons of Joseph after their families [were] Manasseh and Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 26:29", "text": "Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead [come] the family of the Gileadites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 26:30", "text": "These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of] Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 26:31", "text": "And [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 26:32", "text": "And [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 26:33", "text": "And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad [were] Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 26:34", "text": "These [are] the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 26:35", "text": "These [are] the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 26:36", "text": "And these [are] the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 26:37", "text": "These [are] the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph after their families." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 26:38", "text": "The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 26:39", "text": "Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 26:40", "text": "And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the family of the Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of the Naamites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 26:41", "text": "These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 26:42", "text": "These [are] the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the families of Dan after their families." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 26:43", "text": "All the families of the Shuhamites according to those that were numbered of them [were] sixty and four thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 26:44", "text": "[Of] the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 26:45", "text": "Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 26:46", "text": "And the name of the daughter of Asher [was] Sarah." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 26:47", "text": "These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 26:48", "text": "[Of] the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 26:49", "text": "Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 26:50", "text": "These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them, [were] forty and five thousand and four hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 51, "name": "Numbers 26:51", "text": "These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 52, "name": "Numbers 26:52", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 53, "name": "Numbers 26:53", "text": "To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance, according to the number of names." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 54, "name": "Numbers 26:54", "text": "To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given, according to those that were numbered of him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 55, "name": "Numbers 26:55", "text": "Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 56, "name": "Numbers 26:56", "text": "According to the lot shall the possession of it be divided between many and few." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 57, "name": "Numbers 26:57", "text": "And these [are] they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 58, "name": "Numbers 26:58", "text": "These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 59, "name": "Numbers 26:59", "text": "And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bore to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 60, "name": "Numbers 26:60", "text": "And to Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 61, "name": "Numbers 26:61", "text": "And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 62, "name": "Numbers 26:62", "text": "And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 63, "name": "Numbers 26:63", "text": "These [are] they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 64, "name": "Numbers 26:64", "text": "But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 65, "name": "Numbers 26:65", "text": "For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Numbers 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 27:1", "text": "Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these [are] the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 27:2", "text": "And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the congregation, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 27:3", "text": "Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that assembled themselves against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 27:4", "text": "Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give to us [therefore] a possession among the brethren of our father." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 27:5", "text": "And Moses brought their cause before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 27:6", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 27:7", "text": "The daughters of Zelophehad speak [what is] right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 27:8", "text": "And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man shall die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 27:9", "text": "And if he shall have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance to his brethren." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 27:10", "text": "And if he shall have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance to his father's brethren." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 27:11", "text": "And if his father shall have no brethren, then ye shall give inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 27:12", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Ascend this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 27:13", "text": "And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 27:14", "text": "For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 27:15", "text": "And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 27:16", "text": "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 27:17", "text": "Who may go out before them, and who may go in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 27:18", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Take to thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom [is] the spirit, and lay thy hand upon him;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 27:19", "text": "And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: and give him a charge in their sight." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 27:20", "text": "And thou shalt put [some] of thy honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 27:21", "text": "And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask [counsel] for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, [both] he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 27:22", "text": "And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 27:23", "text": "And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Numbers 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 28:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 28:2", "text": "Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering, [and] my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, [for] a sweet savor to me, shall ye observe to offer to me in their due season." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 28:3", "text": "And thou shalt say to them, This [is] the offering made by fire which ye shall offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, [for] a continual burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 28:4", "text": "The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at evening." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 28:5", "text": "And a tenth [part] of an ephah of flour for a meat-offering, mingled with a fourth [part] of a hin of beaten oil." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 28:6", "text": "[It is] a continual burnt-offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 28:7", "text": "And the drink-offering of it [shall be] the fourth [part] of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy [place] shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured to the LORD [for] a drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 28:8", "text": "And the other lamb shalt thou offer at evening; as the meat-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, thou shalt offer [it], a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 28:9", "text": "And on the sabbath-day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth-parts of flour [for] a meat-offering, mingled with oil, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 28:10", "text": "[This is] the burnt-offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt-offering, and his drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 28:11", "text": "And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt-offering to the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 28:12", "text": "And three tenth-parts of flour [for] a meat-offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth-parts of flour [for] a meat-offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 28:13", "text": "And a several tenth-part of flour mingled with oil [for] a meat-offering to one lamb, [for] a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 28:14", "text": "And their drink-offering shall be half a hin of wine to a bullock, and the third [part] of a hin to a ram, and a fourth [part] of a hin to a lamb: this [is] the burnt-offering of every month throughout the months of the year." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 28:15", "text": "And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to the LORD shall be offered, besides the continual burnt-offering, and his drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 28:16", "text": "And on the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 28:17", "text": "And on the fifteenth day of this month [is] the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 28:18", "text": "On the first day [shall be] a holy convocation; [in it] ye shall do no manner of servile work." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 28:19", "text": "But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire [for] a burnt-offering to the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be to you without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 28:20", "text": "And their meat-offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil: three tenth-parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth-parts for a ram;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 28:21", "text": "A several tenth-part shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 28:22", "text": "And one goat [for] a sin-offering, to make an atonement for you." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 28:23", "text": "Ye shall offer these besides the burnt-offering in the morning, which [is] for a continual burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 28:24", "text": "After this manner ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and his drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 28:25", "text": "And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 28:26", "text": "Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meat-offering to the LORD, after your weeks [are ended], ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 28:27", "text": "But ye shall offer the burnt-offering for a sweet savor to the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 28:28", "text": "And their meat-offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth-parts to one bullock, two tenth-parts to one ram," }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 28:29", "text": "A several tenth part to one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 28:30", "text": "[And] one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 28:31", "text": "Ye shall offer [them] besides the continual burnt-offering and his meat-offering (they shall be to you without blemish) and their drink-offerings." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Numbers 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 29:1", "text": "And in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets to you." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 29:2", "text": "And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor to the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of the first year without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 29:3", "text": "And their meat-offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth-parts for a bullock, [and] two tenth-parts for a ram," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 29:4", "text": "And one tenth-part for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 29:5", "text": "And one kid of the goats [for] a sin-offering, to make an atonement for you:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 29:6", "text": "Besides the burnt-offering of the month, and his meat-offering, and the daily burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and their drink-offerings, according to their manner, for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 29:7", "text": "And ye shall have on the tenth [day] of this seventh month a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: [in it] ye shall not do any work." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 29:8", "text": "But ye shall offer a burnt-offering to the LORD [for] a sweet savor; one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of the first year; they shall be to you without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 29:9", "text": "And their meat-offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth-parts to a bullock, [and] two tenth-parts to one ram," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 29:10", "text": "A several tenth-part for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 29:11", "text": "One kid of the goats [for] a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the meat-offering of it, and their drink-offerings." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 29:12", "text": "And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 29:13", "text": "And ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 29:14", "text": "And their meat-offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth-parts to every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth-parts to each ram of the two rams," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 29:15", "text": "And a several tenth-part to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 29:16", "text": "And one kid of the goats [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, his meat-offering, and his drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 29:17", "text": "And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 29:18", "text": "And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 29:19", "text": "And one kid of the goats [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and its meat-offering, and their drink-offerings." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 29:20", "text": "And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 29:21", "text": "And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 29:22", "text": "And one goat [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and its meat-offering, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 29:23", "text": "And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 29:24", "text": "Their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 29:25", "text": "And one kid of the goats [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, its meat-offering, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 29:26", "text": "And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 29:27", "text": "And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 29:28", "text": "And one goat [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and its meat-offering, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 29:29", "text": "And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 29:30", "text": "And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 29:31", "text": "And one goat [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, its meat-offering, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 29:32", "text": "And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 29:33", "text": "And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 29:34", "text": "And one goat [for] a sin-offering: besides the continual burnt-offering, its meat-offering, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 29:35", "text": "On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: [in it] ye shall do no servile work." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 29:36", "text": "But ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 29:37", "text": "Their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 29:38", "text": "And one goat [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and its meat-offering, and its drink-offering." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 29:39", "text": "These [things] ye shall do to the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your free-will-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meat-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 29:40", "text": "And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Numbers 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 30:1", "text": "And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 30:2", "text": "If a man shall vow a vow to the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 30:3", "text": "If a woman also shall vow a vow to the LORD, and bind [herself] by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her youth;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 30:4", "text": "And her father shall hear her vow, and her bond with which she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she hath bound her soul shall stand." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 30:5", "text": "But if her father shall disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows or of her bonds with which she hath bound her soul shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 30:6", "text": "And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered aught from her lips, with which she bound her soul;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 30:7", "text": "And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 30:8", "text": "But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make of no effect her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul: and the LORD shall forgive her." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 30:9", "text": "But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, with which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 30:10", "text": "And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 30:11", "text": "And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 30:12", "text": "But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard [them]; [then] whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 30:13", "text": "Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 30:14", "text": "But if her husband altogether holds his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 30:15", "text": "But if he shall any way make them void after that he hath heard [them]; then he shall bear her iniquity." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 30:16", "text": "These [are] the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father's house." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Numbers 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 31:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 31:2", "text": "Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered to thy people." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 31:3", "text": "And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves for the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD on Midian." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 31:4", "text": "Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 31:5", "text": "So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 31:6", "text": "And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every] tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 31:7", "text": "And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 31:8", "text": "And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the rest of them that were slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 31:9", "text": "And the children of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 31:10", "text": "And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 31:11", "text": "And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of men and of beasts." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 31:12", "text": "And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which [are] by Jordan [near] Jericho." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 31:13", "text": "And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 31:14", "text": "And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 31:15", "text": "And Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 31:16", "text": "Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD, in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 31:17", "text": "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 31:18", "text": "But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 31:19", "text": "And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whoever hath killed any person, and whoever hath touched any slain, purify [both] yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 31:20", "text": "And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 31:21", "text": "And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 31:22", "text": "Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 31:23", "text": "Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 31:24", "text": "And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 31:25", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 31:26", "text": "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 31:27", "text": "And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 31:28", "text": "And levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 31:29", "text": "Take [it] of their half, and give [it] to Eleazar the priest, [for] a heave-offering of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 31:30", "text": "And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 31:31", "text": "And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 31:32", "text": "And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the men of war had taken, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 31:33", "text": "And seventy two thousand beeves," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 31:34", "text": "And sixty one thousand asses," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 31:35", "text": "And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 31:36", "text": "And the half [which was] the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 31:37", "text": "And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy five." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 31:38", "text": "And the beeves [were] thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] seventy two." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 31:39", "text": "And the asses [were] thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] sixty one." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 31:40", "text": "And the persons [were] sixteen thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 31:41", "text": "And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 31:42", "text": "And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 31:43", "text": "(Now the half [that pertained to] the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred sheep," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 31:44", "text": "And thirty and six thousand beeves," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 31:45", "text": "And thirty thousand asses and five hundred," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 31:46", "text": "And sixteen thousand persons;)" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 31:47", "text": "Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 31:48", "text": "And the officers who [were] over thousands of the hosts, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 31:49", "text": "And they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who [are] under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 31:50", "text": "We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath obtained of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, ear-rings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 51, "name": "Numbers 31:51", "text": "And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, [even] all wrought jewels." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 52, "name": "Numbers 31:52", "text": "And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 53, "name": "Numbers 31:53", "text": "([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 54, "name": "Numbers 31:54", "text": "And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Numbers 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 32:1", "text": "Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 32:2", "text": "The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 32:3", "text": "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 32:4", "text": "[Even] the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 32:5", "text": "Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, [and] bring us not over Jordan." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 32:6", "text": "And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 32:7", "text": "And why discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 32:8", "text": "Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 32:9", "text": "For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 32:10", "text": "And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 32:11", "text": "Surely none of the men that came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 32:12", "text": "Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 32:13", "text": "And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 32:14", "text": "And behold, ye have risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD towards Israel." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 32:15", "text": "For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and he will destroy all this people." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 32:16", "text": "And they came near to him, and said, We will build sheep-folds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 32:17", "text": "But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities, because of the inhabitants of the land." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 32:18", "text": "We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 32:19", "text": "For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance hath fallen to us on this side of Jordan eastward." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 32:20", "text": "And Moses said to them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 32:21", "text": "And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 32:22", "text": "And the land shall be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 32:23", "text": "But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 32:24", "text": "Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 32:25", "text": "And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 32:26", "text": "Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 32:27", "text": "But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 32:28", "text": "So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 32:29", "text": "And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed for battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 32:30", "text": "But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 32:31", "text": "And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said to thy servants, so will we do." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 32:32", "text": "We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan [may be] ours." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 32:33", "text": "And Moses gave to them, [even] to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with its cities in the borders, [even] the cities of the country around." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 32:34", "text": "And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 32:35", "text": "And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 32:36", "text": "And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities: and folds for sheep." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 32:37", "text": "And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 32:38", "text": "And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names to the cities which they built." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 32:39", "text": "And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite who [was] in it." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 32:40", "text": "And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt in it." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 32:41", "text": "And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth-jair." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 32:42", "text": "And Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Numbers 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 33:1", "text": "These [are] the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth from the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 33:2", "text": "And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their journeys according to their goings out." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 33:3", "text": "And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 33:4", "text": "For the Egyptians buried all [their] first-born, whom the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 33:5", "text": "And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 33:6", "text": "And they departed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which [is] in the edge of the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 33:7", "text": "And they removed from Etham, and turned again to Pi-hahiroth, which [is] before Baal-zephon: and they encamped before Migdol." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 33:8", "text": "And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 33:9", "text": "And they removed from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees; and they encamped there." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 33:10", "text": "And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 33:11", "text": "And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 33:12", "text": "And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 33:13", "text": "And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 33:14", "text": "And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 33:15", "text": "And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 33:16", "text": "And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 33:17", "text": "And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 33:18", "text": "And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 33:19", "text": "And they departed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-parez." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 33:20", "text": "And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and encamped in Libnah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 33:21", "text": "And they removed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 33:22", "text": "And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 33:23", "text": "And they went from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shapher." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 33:24", "text": "And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 33:25", "text": "And they removed from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 33:26", "text": "And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 33:27", "text": "And they departed from Tahath, and encamped at Tarah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 33:28", "text": "And they removed from Tarah, and encamped in Mithcah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 33:29", "text": "And they went from Mithcah, and encamped in Hashmonah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 33:30", "text": "And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 33:31", "text": "And they departed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 33:32", "text": "And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 33:33", "text": "And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 33:34", "text": "And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 35, "name": "Numbers 33:35", "text": "And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 36, "name": "Numbers 33:36", "text": "And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 37, "name": "Numbers 33:37", "text": "And they removed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 38, "name": "Numbers 33:38", "text": "And Aaron the priest ascended mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel departed from the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the fifth month." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 39, "name": "Numbers 33:39", "text": "And Aaron [was] a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 40, "name": "Numbers 33:40", "text": "And king Arad the Canaanite who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 41, "name": "Numbers 33:41", "text": "And they departed from mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 42, "name": "Numbers 33:42", "text": "And they departed from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 43, "name": "Numbers 33:43", "text": "And they departed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 44, "name": "Numbers 33:44", "text": "And they departed from Oboth, and encamped in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 45, "name": "Numbers 33:45", "text": "And they departed from Iim, and encamped in Dibon-gad." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 46, "name": "Numbers 33:46", "text": "And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 47, "name": "Numbers 33:47", "text": "And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 48, "name": "Numbers 33:48", "text": "And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 49, "name": "Numbers 33:49", "text": "And they encamped by Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth [even] to Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 50, "name": "Numbers 33:50", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 51, "name": "Numbers 33:51", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 52, "name": "Numbers 33:52", "text": "Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite demolish all their high places:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 53, "name": "Numbers 33:53", "text": "And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land, and dwell in it; for I have given you the land to possess it." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 54, "name": "Numbers 33:54", "text": "And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 55, "name": "Numbers 33:55", "text": "But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] prickles in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall harass you in the land in which ye dwell." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 56, "name": "Numbers 33:56", "text": "Moreover, it shall come to pass, [that] I shall do to you as I thought to do to them." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Numbers 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 34:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 34:2", "text": "Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this [is] the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan with its borders.)" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 34:3", "text": "Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 34:4", "text": "And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: its limit shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 34:5", "text": "And the border shall form a circuit from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the limits of it shall be at the sea." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 34:6", "text": "And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 34:7", "text": "And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall designate for you mount Hor:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 34:8", "text": "From mount Hor ye shall designate [your border] to the entrance of Hamath; and the limits of the border shall be at Zedad:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 34:9", "text": "And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the limits of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 34:10", "text": "And ye shall designate your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 34:11", "text": "And the limit shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 34:12", "text": "And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the limits of it shall be at the salt sea: This shall be your land with its limits on all sides." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 34:13", "text": "And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 34:14", "text": "For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received [their inheritance]; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 34:15", "text": "The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of Jordan [near] Jericho eastward, towards the sun-rising." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 34:16", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 34:17", "text": "These [are] the names of the men who shall divide the land to you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 34:18", "text": "And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 34:19", "text": "And the names of the men [are] these: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 34:20", "text": "And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 34:21", "text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 34:22", "text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 34:23", "text": "The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 34:24", "text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 34:25", "text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 34:26", "text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 34:27", "text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 34:28", "text": "And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 34:29", "text": "These [are they] whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan." } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "Numbers 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 35:1", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 35:2", "text": "Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give [also] to the Levites suburbs for the cities around them." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 35:3", "text": "And they shall have the cities to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 35:4", "text": "And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, [shall reach] from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits on all sides." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 35:5", "text": "And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city [shall be] in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 35:6", "text": "And among the cities which ye shall give to the Levites [there shall be] six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the man-slayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 35:7", "text": "[So] all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them [shall ye give] with their suburbs." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 35:8", "text": "And the cities which ye shall give [shall be] of the possession of the children of Israel: from [them that have] many ye shall give many; but from [them that have] few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 35:9", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 35:10", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 35:11", "text": "Then ye shall appoint for you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, who killeth any person at unawares." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 35:12", "text": "And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the man-slayer may not die, until he stands before the congregation in judgment." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 35:13", "text": "And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "name": "Numbers 35:14", "text": "Ye shall give three cities on this side of Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "name": "Numbers 35:15", "text": "These six cities shall be a refuge, [both] for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "name": "Numbers 35:16", "text": "And if he shall smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he shall die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "name": "Numbers 35:17", "text": "And if he shall smite him by throwing a stone, by which he may die, and he shall die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "name": "Numbers 35:18", "text": "Or [if] he shall smite him with a hand-weapon of wood, with which he may die, and he shall die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "name": "Numbers 35:19", "text": "The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "name": "Numbers 35:20", "text": "But if he shall thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying in wait, that he die." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "name": "Numbers 35:21", "text": "Or in enmity shall smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "name": "Numbers 35:22", "text": "But if he shall thrust him suddenly without enmity, or shall have cast upon him any thing without laying in wait," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "name": "Numbers 35:23", "text": "Or with any stone, by which a man may die, seeing [him] not, and shall cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "name": "Numbers 35:24", "text": "Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "name": "Numbers 35:25", "text": "And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled: and he shall abide in it to the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "name": "Numbers 35:26", "text": "But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he had fled;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "name": "Numbers 35:27", "text": "And the avenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood shall kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "name": "Numbers 35:28", "text": "Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 29, "name": "Numbers 35:29", "text": "So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 30, "name": "Numbers 35:30", "text": "Whoever killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person [to cause him] to die." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 31, "name": "Numbers 35:31", "text": "Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 32, "name": "Numbers 35:32", "text": "And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that hath fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 33, "name": "Numbers 35:33", "text": "So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye [are]: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him that shed it." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 34, "name": "Numbers 35:34", "text": "Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, in which I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "Numbers 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "Numbers 36:1", "text": "And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "Numbers 36:2", "text": "And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "Numbers 36:3", "text": "And if they shall be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received: so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "Numbers 36:4", "text": "And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "Numbers 36:5", "text": "And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "Numbers 36:6", "text": "This [is] the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "Numbers 36:7", "text": "So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "Numbers 36:8", "text": "And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "Numbers 36:9", "text": "Neither shall the inheritance remove from [one] tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "Numbers 36:10", "text": "Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "Numbers 36:11", "text": "For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "Numbers 36:12", "text": "[And] they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "name": "Numbers 36:13", "text": "These [are] the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:1", "text": "These [are] the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the east side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against Suf, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:2", "text": "([There are] eleven days [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:3", "text": "And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:4", "text": "After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:5", "text": "On the east side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:6", "text": "The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:7", "text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and to all [the places] nigh to it, in the plain, on the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea-side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:8", "text": "Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:9", "text": "And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:10", "text": "The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:11", "text": "(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:12", "text": "How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:13", "text": "Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:14", "text": "And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken [is] good [for us] to do." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:15", "text": "So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:16", "text": "And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:17", "text": "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:18", "text": "And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:19", "text": "And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:20", "text": "And I said to you, Ye have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give to us." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:21", "text": "Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up [and] possess [it], as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said to thee; fear not, neither be discouraged." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:22", "text": "And ye came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall explore the land for us, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:23", "text": "And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:24", "text": "And they turned and ascended the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and explored it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:25", "text": "And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down to us, and brought us word again, and said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:26", "text": "Notwithstanding, ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:27", "text": "And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth from the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:28", "text": "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people [are] greater and taller than we; the cities [are] great and walled up to heaven; and moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakims there." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:29", "text": "Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:30", "text": "The LORD your God who goeth before you; he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:31", "text": "And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:32", "text": "Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:33", "text": "Who went in the way before you, to search out for you a place to pitch your tents [in], in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:34", "text": "And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:35", "text": "Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:36", "text": "Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trod upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:37", "text": "Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:38", "text": "[But] Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither. Encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:39", "text": "Moreover, your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:40", "text": "But [as for] you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:41", "text": "Then ye answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to ascend the hill." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:42", "text": "And the LORD said to me, Say to them, Go not up, neither fight; for I [am] not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:43", "text": "So I spoke to you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and presumptuously ascended the hill." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:44", "text": "And the Amorites, who dwelt on that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, [even] to Hormah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:45", "text": "And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear to you." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "name": "Deuteronomy 1:46", "text": "So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that ye abode [there]." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:1", "text": "Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spoke to me: and we compassed mount Seir many days." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:2", "text": "And the LORD spoke to me, saying," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:3", "text": "Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:4", "text": "And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: therefore take ye good heed to yourselves:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:5", "text": "Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot-breadth; because I have given mount Seir to Esau [for] a possession." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:6", "text": "Ye shall buy food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:7", "text": "For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee: thou hast lacked nothing." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:8", "text": "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:9", "text": "And the LORD said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot [for] a possession." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:10", "text": "(The Emims dwelt in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:11", "text": "Who also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:12", "text": "The Horims also dwelt formerly in Seir, but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:13", "text": "Now rise, [said I], and pass over the brook Zered: and we went over the brook Zered." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:14", "text": "And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we passed the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted from among the host, as the LORD swore to them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:15", "text": "For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:16", "text": "So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:17", "text": "That the LORD spoke to me, saying," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:18", "text": "Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:19", "text": "And [when] thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon [any] possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot [for] a possession." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:20", "text": "(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:21", "text": "A people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:22", "text": "As he did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even to this day:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:23", "text": "And the Avims who dwelt in Hazerim [even] to Azzah, the Caphtorims, who came forth from Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:24", "text": "Arise ye, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess [it], and contend with him in battle." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:25", "text": "This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations [that are] under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:26", "text": "And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:27", "text": "Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:28", "text": "Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:29", "text": "(As the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:30", "text": "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as [appeareth] this day." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:31", "text": "And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:32", "text": "Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:33", "text": "And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:34", "text": "And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city, we left none to remain." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:35", "text": "Only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:36", "text": "From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all to us:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "name": "Deuteronomy 2:37", "text": "Only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, [nor] to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities on the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbad us." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:1", "text": "Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:2", "text": "And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:3", "text": "So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:4", "text": "And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:5", "text": "All these cities [were] fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:6", "text": "And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:7", "text": "But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:8", "text": "And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that [was] on this side of Jordan, from the river of Arnon to mount Hermon;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:9", "text": "([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:10", "text": "All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:11", "text": "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:12", "text": "And this land, [which] we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:13", "text": "And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, [being] the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:14", "text": "Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, to the borders of Geshuri, and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, to this day." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:15", "text": "And I gave Gilead to Machir." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:16", "text": "And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:17", "text": "The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, [even] the salt-sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:18", "text": "And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are] meet for the war." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:19", "text": "But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, ([for] I know that ye have many cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:20", "text": "Until the LORD shall have given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and [until] they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and [then] shall ye return every man to his possession which I have given you." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:21", "text": "And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done to these two kings: so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms whither thou passest." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:22", "text": "Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:23", "text": "And I besought the LORD at that time, saying," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:24", "text": "O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:25", "text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:26", "text": "But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this matter." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:27", "text": "Ascend to the top of Pisgah, and lift up thy eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thy eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:28", "text": "But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 3:29", "text": "So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:1", "text": "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:2", "text": "Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [aught] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:3", "text": "Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:4", "text": "But ye who adhered to the LORD your God, [are] alive every one of you this day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:5", "text": "Behold, I have taught you statutes, and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:6", "text": "Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which will hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:7", "text": "For what nation [is there so] great, which [hath] God [so] nigh to them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:8", "text": "And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:9", "text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou shouldst forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons' sons:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:10", "text": "[Specially] the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and [that] they may teach their children." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:11", "text": "And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:12", "text": "And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only [ye heard] a voice." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:13", "text": "And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:14", "text": "And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:15", "text": "Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:16", "text": "Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:17", "text": "The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:18", "text": "The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:19", "text": "And lest thou shouldst lift up thy eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldst be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided to all nations under the whole heaven." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:20", "text": "But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, [even] from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as [ye are] this day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:21", "text": "Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not enter that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:22", "text": "But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:23", "text": "Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing] which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:24", "text": "For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:25", "text": "When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:26", "text": "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the land to which ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:27", "text": "And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:28", "text": "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:29", "text": "But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:30", "text": "When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient to his voice;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:31", "text": "(For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he swore to them." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:32", "text": "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and [ask] from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing [is], or hath been heard like it?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:33", "text": "Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:34", "text": "Or hath God essayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an out-stretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:35", "text": "To thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none besides him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:36", "text": "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardst his words from the midst of the fire." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:37", "text": "And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt in his sight with his mighty power." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:38", "text": "To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou [art], to bring thee in, to give thee their land [for] an inheritance, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:39", "text": "Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thy heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: [there is] none else." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:40", "text": "Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:41", "text": "Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan, towards the sun-rising;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:42", "text": "That the slayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbor unawares, and when he had not hated him in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:43", "text": "[Namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:44", "text": "And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 45, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:45", "text": "These [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth from Egypt," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 46, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:46", "text": "On the east side of Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they had come forth from Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 47, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:47", "text": "And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who [were] on the side of Jordan, towards the sun-rising;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 48, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:48", "text": "From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount Sion, which [is] Hermon," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 49, "name": "Deuteronomy 4:49", "text": "And all the plain on the side of Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:1", "text": "And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:2", "text": "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:3", "text": "The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:4", "text": "The LORD talked with you face to face on the mount, from the midst of the fire," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:5", "text": "(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up upon the mount;) saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:6", "text": "I [am] the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:7", "text": "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:8", "text": "Thou shalt not make for thee [any] graven image, [or] any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] on the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:9", "text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:10", "text": "And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:11", "text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name in vain." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:12", "text": "Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:13", "text": "Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:14", "text": "But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:15", "text": "And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and [that] the LORD thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and by an out-stretched arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath-day." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:16", "text": "Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:17", "text": "Thou shalt not kill." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:18", "text": "Neither shalt thou commit adultery." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:19", "text": "Neither shalt thou steal." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:20", "text": "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:21", "text": "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbor's." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:22", "text": "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:23", "text": "And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near to me, [even] all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:24", "text": "And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:25", "text": "Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:26", "text": "For who [is there of] all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we [have], and lived?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:27", "text": "Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say; and speak thou to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:28", "text": "And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoke to thee: they have well said all that they have spoken." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:29", "text": "O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:30", "text": "Go, say to them, Return to your tents again." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:31", "text": "But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak to thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:32", "text": "Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 5:33", "text": "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:1", "text": "Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:2", "text": "That thou mayst fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life: and that thy days may be prolonged." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:3", "text": "Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:4", "text": "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God [is] one LORD:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:5", "text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:6", "text": "And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:7", "text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:8", "text": "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:9", "text": "And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:10", "text": "And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he swore to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:11", "text": "And houses full of all good [things], which thou didst not fill, and wells digged, which thou didst not dig, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:12", "text": "[Then] beware lest thou shouldst forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:13", "text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:14", "text": "Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] around you;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:15", "text": "(For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God should be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:16", "text": "Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:17", "text": "Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:18", "text": "And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:19", "text": "To cast out all thy enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:20", "text": "[And] when thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:21", "text": "Then thou shalt say to thy son, We were Pharoah's bond-men in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:22", "text": "And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and distressing, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:23", "text": "And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:24", "text": "And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as [it is] at this day." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 6:25", "text": "And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:1", "text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perrizites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:2", "text": "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them [and] utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:3", "text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy son." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:4", "text": "For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:5", "text": "But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:6", "text": "For thou [art] a holy people to the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people to himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:7", "text": "The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:8", "text": "But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bond-men, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:9", "text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:10", "text": "And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:11", "text": "Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:12", "text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God will keep to thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:13", "text": "And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless thy children, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he swore to thy fathers to give thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:14", "text": "Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:15", "text": "And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:16", "text": "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver to thee; thy eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare to thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:17", "text": "If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations [are] more than I, how can I dispossess them?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:18", "text": "Thou shalt not be afraid of them: [but] shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:19", "text": "The great temptations which thy eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the out-stretched arm, by which the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do to all the people of whom thou art afraid." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:20", "text": "Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, shall be destroyed." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:21", "text": "Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:22", "text": "And the LORD thy God will drive out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:23", "text": "But the LORD thy God shall deliver them to thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:24", "text": "And he shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou shalt have destroyed them." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:25", "text": "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] to thee, lest thou shouldst be snared in it: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 7:26", "text": "Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou shouldst be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:1", "text": "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:2", "text": "And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:3", "text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:4", "text": "Thy raiment hath not become old upon thee, neither hath thy foot swelled these forty years." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:5", "text": "Thou shalt also consider in thy heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:6", "text": "Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:7", "text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:8", "text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive-oil, and honey;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:9", "text": "A land in which thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it, a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:10", "text": "When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:11", "text": "Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:12", "text": "Lest [when] thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [in them];" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:13", "text": "And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are increased, and all that thou hast is increased;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:14", "text": "Then thy heart shall be lifted up, and thou shalt forget the LORD thy God (who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;)" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:15", "text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drouth, where [there was] no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:16", "text": "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:17", "text": "And thou shalt say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:18", "text": "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to thy fathers, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:19", "text": "And it shall be, if thou shalt at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 8:20", "text": "As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:1", "text": "Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:2", "text": "A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [it said], Who can stand before the children of Anak!" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:3", "text": "Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he who goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said to thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:4", "text": "Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:5", "text": "Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:6", "text": "Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a stiff-necked people." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:7", "text": "Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart from the land of Egypt, until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:8", "text": "Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:9", "text": "When I ascended the mount, to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither ate bread, nor drank water:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:10", "text": "And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you in the mount, from the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:11", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:12", "text": "And the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:13", "text": "Furthermore, the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it [is] a stiff-necked people:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:14", "text": "Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:15", "text": "So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:16", "text": "And I looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:17", "text": "And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:18", "text": "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I neither ate bread, nor drank water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:19", "text": "(For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you.) But the LORD hearkened to me at that time also." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:20", "text": "And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:21", "text": "And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended from the mount." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:22", "text": "And at Taberah, and at Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:23", "text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:24", "text": "Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:25", "text": "Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:26", "text": "I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:27", "text": "Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:28", "text": "Lest the land from which thou hast brought us should say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 9:29", "text": "Yet they [are] thy people and thy inheritance which thou hast brought out by thy mighty power and by thy out-stretched arm." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:1", "text": "At that time the LORD said to me, Hew thee two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me upon the mount, and make thee an ark of wood." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:2", "text": "And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:3", "text": "And I made an ark [of] shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and ascended the mount, having the two tables in my hand." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:4", "text": "And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount, from the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:5", "text": "And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:6", "text": "And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jakan to Mosira: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:7", "text": "From thence they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:8", "text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:9", "text": "Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:10", "text": "And I stayed in the mount, according to the first-time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened to me at that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:11", "text": "And the LORD said to me, Arise, take [thy] journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:12", "text": "And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:13", "text": "To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:14", "text": "Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belongeth to the LORD thy God, the earth [also], with all that it contains." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:15", "text": "Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:16", "text": "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:17", "text": "For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:18", "text": "He executeth the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:19", "text": "Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:20", "text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:21", "text": "He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thy eyes have seen." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 10:22", "text": "Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:1", "text": "Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:2", "text": "And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his out-stretched arm," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:3", "text": "And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:4", "text": "And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and [how] the LORD hath destroyed them to this day;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:5", "text": "And what he did to you in the wilderness, until ye came to this place;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:6", "text": "And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that [was] in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:7", "text": "But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:8", "text": "Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:9", "text": "And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:10", "text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed, and water [it] with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:11", "text": "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:12", "text": "A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:13", "text": "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:14", "text": "That I will give [you] the rain of your land in its due season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine and thy oil." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:15", "text": "And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:16", "text": "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:17", "text": "And [then] the LORD'S wrath shall be kindled against you, and he shall shut up the heaven, that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:18", "text": "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:19", "text": "And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:20", "text": "And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thy house, and upon thy gates:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:21", "text": "That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:22", "text": "For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:23", "text": "Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:24", "text": "Every place on which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea shall your limit be." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:25", "text": "There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:26", "text": "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:27", "text": "A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:28", "text": "And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:29", "text": "And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in to the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:30", "text": "[Are] they not on the other side of Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:31", "text": "For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell in it." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 11:32", "text": "And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:1", "text": "These [are] the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:2", "text": "Ye shall utterly destroy all the places in which the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:3", "text": "And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:4", "text": "Ye shall not do so to the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:5", "text": "But the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, [even] his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:6", "text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:7", "text": "And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand to, ye and your households, in which the LORD thy God hath blessed thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:8", "text": "Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do here this day, every man whatever [is] right in his own eyes." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:9", "text": "For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:10", "text": "But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you rest from all your enemies on every side, so that ye dwell in safety:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:11", "text": "Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow to the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:12", "text": "And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:13", "text": "Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:14", "text": "But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:15", "text": "Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatever thy soul desireth, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat of it as of the roebuck, and as of the hart." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:16", "text": "Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:17", "text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of thy hand:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:18", "text": "But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands to." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:19", "text": "Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:20", "text": "When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatever thy soul desireth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:21", "text": "If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there, shall be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatever thy soul desireth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:22", "text": "Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:23", "text": "Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:24", "text": "Thou shalt not eat it: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:25", "text": "Thou shalt not eat it; that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:26", "text": "Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:27", "text": "And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:28", "text": "Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest [that which is] good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:29", "text": "When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:30", "text": "Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:31", "text": "Thou shalt not do so to the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 12:32", "text": "Whatever thing I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:1", "text": "If there shall arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and give thee a sign or a wonder." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:2", "text": "And the sign or the wonder shall come to pass, of which he spoke to thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:3", "text": "Thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:4", "text": "Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave to him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:5", "text": "And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou remove the evil from the midst of thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:6", "text": "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who [is] as thy own soul, shall entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:7", "text": "[Namely], of the gods of the people who [are] around you, nigh to thee, or far off from thee, from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:8", "text": "Thou shalt not consent to him, nor hearken to him; neither shall thy eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:9", "text": "But thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:10", "text": "And thou shalt stone him with stones that he shall die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:11", "text": "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is, among you." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:12", "text": "If thou shalt hear, in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:13", "text": "[Certain] men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:14", "text": "Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, [if it is] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:15", "text": "Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] in it, and its cattle, with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:16", "text": "And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of its street, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shalt not be built again." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:17", "text": "And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thy hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn to thy fathers;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 13:18", "text": "When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:1", "text": "Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:2", "text": "For thou [art] a holy people to the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:3", "text": "Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:4", "text": "These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:5", "text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:6", "text": "And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:7", "text": "Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:8", "text": "And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, [is] unclean to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:9", "text": "These ye shall eat, of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:10", "text": "And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:11", "text": "[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:12", "text": "But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:13", "text": "And the glede, and the kite, and the vultur after his kind," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:14", "text": "And every raven after his kind," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:15", "text": "And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:16", "text": "The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:17", "text": "And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:18", "text": "And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:19", "text": "And every creeping animal that flieth [is] unclean to you: they shall not be eaten." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:20", "text": "[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:21", "text": "Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it to the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it to an alien: for thou [art] a holy people to the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:22", "text": "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:23", "text": "And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:24", "text": "And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; [or] if the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:25", "text": "Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:26", "text": "And thou shalt bestow that money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:27", "text": "And the Levite that [is] within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:28", "text": "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thy increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 14:29", "text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:1", "text": "At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:2", "text": "And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth [aught] to his neighbor shall release [it]; he shall not exact [it] of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:3", "text": "Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again]: but [that] which is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:4", "text": "Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:5", "text": "Only if thou shalt carefully hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:6", "text": "For the LORD thy God shall bless thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:7", "text": "If there shall be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD the God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:8", "text": "But thou shalt open thy hand wide to him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:9", "text": "Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thy eye shall be evil against thy poor brother, and thou shalt give him naught; and he shall cry to the LORD against thee, and it shall be sin to thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:10", "text": "Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest to him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thy hand to." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:11", "text": "For the poor shall never cease from the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand wide to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:12", "text": "[And] if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, shall be sold to thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:13", "text": "And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him depart empty:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:14", "text": "Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: [of that] with which the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give to him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:15", "text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing this day." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:16", "text": "And it shall be, if he shall say to thee, I will not leave thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:17", "text": "Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust [it] through his ear into the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also to thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:18", "text": "It shall not seem hard to thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been of double the worth of a hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:19", "text": "All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:20", "text": "Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:21", "text": "And if there is [any] blemish in it, [as if it is] lame, or blind, [or hath] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:22", "text": "Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 15:23", "text": "Only thou shalt not eat its blood; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:1", "text": "Observe the month Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth from Egypt by night." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:2", "text": "Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:3", "text": "Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, [even] the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth from the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth from the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:4", "text": "And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall there [any thing] of the flesh, which thou didst sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:5", "text": "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:6", "text": "But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at evening, at the setting of the sun, at the time of thy departure from Egypt." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:7", "text": "And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go to thy tents." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:8", "text": "Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day [shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt do no work." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:9", "text": "Seven weeks shalt thou number to thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [the time when] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:10", "text": "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the LORD thy God with a tribute of a free-will-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give [to the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:11", "text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:12", "text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:13", "text": "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:14", "text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] within thy gates:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:15", "text": "Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast to the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase, and in all the works of thy hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:16", "text": "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:17", "text": "Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:18", "text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:19", "text": "Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:20", "text": "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:21", "text": "Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make for thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 16:22", "text": "Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which the LORD thy God hateth." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:1", "text": "Thou shalt not sacrifice to the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, in which is blemish, [or] any evil favoredness: for that [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:2", "text": "If there shall be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:3", "text": "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:4", "text": "And it shall be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and inquired diligently, and behold, [it is] true, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought in Israel:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:5", "text": "Then shalt thou bring forth to thy gates that man or that woman, who have committed that wicked thing, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:6", "text": "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:7", "text": "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt remove the evil from among you." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:8", "text": "If there shall arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:9", "text": "And thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:10", "text": "And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:11", "text": "According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:12", "text": "And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt remove the evil from Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:13", "text": "And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:14", "text": "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:15", "text": "Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, who [is] not thy brother." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:16", "text": "But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said to you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:17", "text": "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart may turn not away: neither shall he greatly accumulate to himself silver and gold." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:18", "text": "And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:19", "text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 17:20", "text": "That his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment [to] the right hand or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:1", "text": "The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:2", "text": "Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath said to them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:3", "text": "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep; and they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:4", "text": "The first-fruit [also] of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:5", "text": "For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:6", "text": "And if a Levite shall come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:7", "text": "Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites [do], who stand there before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:8", "text": "They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:9", "text": "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:10", "text": "There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:11", "text": "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:12", "text": "For all that do these things [are] an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:13", "text": "Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:14", "text": "For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:15", "text": "The LORD thy God will raise up to thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like to me; to him ye shall hearken." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:16", "text": "According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I may not die." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:17", "text": "And the LORD said to me, They have well [spoken of that] which they have spoken." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:18", "text": "I will raise up to them a prophet from among their brethren, like thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:19", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] whoever will not hearken to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:20", "text": "But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:21", "text": "And if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 18:22", "text": "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing doth not follow, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:1", "text": "When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:2", "text": "Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:3", "text": "Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the limits of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:4", "text": "And this [is] the case of the slayer, who shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoever killeth his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:5", "text": "As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand maketh a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and falleth upon his neighbor, that he dieth: he shall flee to one of these cities, and live:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:6", "text": "Lest the avenger of blood shall pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:7", "text": "Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:8", "text": "And if the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy limits, as he hath sworn to thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give to thy fathers;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:9", "text": "If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:10", "text": "That innocent blood may not be shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood be upon thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:11", "text": "But if any man shall hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally, that he dieth, and he shall flee into one of these cities:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:12", "text": "Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:13", "text": "Thy eye shall not pity him, but thou shall remove [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:14", "text": "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thy inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:15", "text": "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:16", "text": "If a false witness shall rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:17", "text": "Then both the men between whom the controversy [is] shall stand before the LORD, before the priests, and the judges, who shall be in those days;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:18", "text": "And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, [if] the witness [is] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:19", "text": "Then shall ye do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shalt thou remove the evil from among you." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:20", "text": "And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 19:21", "text": "And thy eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:1", "text": "When thou goest out to battle against thy enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:2", "text": "And it shall be when ye are come nigh to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:3", "text": "And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day to battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:4", "text": "For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:5", "text": "And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should dedicate it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:6", "text": "And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should eat of it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:7", "text": "And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in battle, and another man should take her." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:8", "text": "And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart should faint as well as his heart." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:9", "text": "And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:10", "text": "When thou comest nigh to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:11", "text": "And it shall be, if it shall make thee answer of peace, and open to thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that are] found therein, shall be tributaries to thee, and they shall serve thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:12", "text": "And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:13", "text": "And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:14", "text": "But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil of it, shalt thou take to thyself: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thy enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:15", "text": "Thus shalt thou do to all the cities [which are] very distant from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:16", "text": "But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:17", "text": "But thou shalt utterly destroy them, [namely], the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:18", "text": "That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would ye sin against the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:19", "text": "When thou shalt besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees of it by forcing an ax against them; for thou mayest eat of them: and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 20:20", "text": "Only the trees which thou knowest that they [are] not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it shall be subdued." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:1", "text": "If [one] shall be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:2", "text": "Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which [are] around him that is slain:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:3", "text": "And it shall be [that] the city [which is] next to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which hath not been wrought with, [and] which hath not drawn in the yoke;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:4", "text": "And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither tilled nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:5", "text": "And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near (for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD) and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [tried];" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:6", "text": "And all the elders of that city [that are] next to the slain [man], shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:7", "text": "And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:8", "text": "Be merciful, O LORD, to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:9", "text": "So shalt thou remove the [guilt of] innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:10", "text": "When thou goest forth to war against thy enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thy hands, and thou hast taken them captive," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:11", "text": "And [thou] seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire to her, that thou wouldest have her for thy wife:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:12", "text": "Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:13", "text": "And she shall put off from her the raiment of her captivity, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that, thou shalt go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:14", "text": "And it shall be, if thou shalt have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money; thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:15", "text": "If a man shall have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the first-born son be hers that was hated:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:16", "text": "Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit [that] which he hath, [that] he may not prefer the son of the beloved first-born, before the son of the hated, [which is indeed] the first-born:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:17", "text": "But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the first-born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born [is] his." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:18", "text": "If a man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and [who], when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:19", "text": "Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:20", "text": "And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:21", "text": "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shalt thou remove evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear, and fear." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:22", "text": "And if a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he must be put to death, and thou shalt hang him on a tree:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 21:23", "text": "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land may not be defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:1", "text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again to thy brother." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:2", "text": "And if thy brother shall not [be] nigh to thee, or if thou shalt not know him, then thou shalt bring it to thy own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother shall seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:3", "text": "In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:4", "text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift [them] up again." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:5", "text": "A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:6", "text": "If a bird's nest shall chance to be before thee in the way on any tree, or on the ground, [whether with] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:7", "text": "[But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and [that] thou mayest prolong [thy] days." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:8", "text": "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayest not bring blood upon thy house, if any man shall fall from thence." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:9", "text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, should be defiled." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:10", "text": "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:11", "text": "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woolen and linen together." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:12", "text": "Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, with which thou coverest [thyself]." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:13", "text": "If any man shall take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:14", "text": "And give occasions of speech against her, and bring an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:15", "text": "Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:16", "text": "And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hateth her," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:17", "text": "And lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:18", "text": "And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:19", "text": "And they shall amerce him in a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:20", "text": "But if this thing shall be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:21", "text": "Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she may die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to be guilty of lewdness in her father's house: so shalt thou remove evil from among you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:22", "text": "If a man shall be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove evil from Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:23", "text": "If a damsel [that is] a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:24", "text": "Then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they may die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt remove evil from among you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:25", "text": "But if a man shall find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man shall force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:26", "text": "But to the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:27", "text": "For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:28", "text": "If a man shall find a damsel [that is] a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:29", "text": "Then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 22:30", "text": "A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:1", "text": "He that is wounded or mutilated in his secrets, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:2", "text": "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:3", "text": "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:4", "text": "Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth from Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:5", "text": "Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam: but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:6", "text": "Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:7", "text": "Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he [is] thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:8", "text": "The children that are begotten by them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:9", "text": "When the host goeth forth against thy enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:10", "text": "If there shall be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth to him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:11", "text": "But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash [himself] with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp [again]." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:12", "text": "Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:13", "text": "And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon: and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig with it, and shalt turn back, and cover that which cometh from thee:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:14", "text": "For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he may see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:15", "text": "Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant who hath escaped from his master to thee:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:16", "text": "He shall dwell with thee, [even] among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:17", "text": "There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:18", "text": "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:19", "text": "Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:20", "text": "To a stranger thou mayest lend upon interest; but to thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thy hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:21", "text": "When thou shalt vow a vow to the LORD thy God, thou shalt not defer to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:22", "text": "But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:23", "text": "That which is uttered by thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a free-will-offering, according as thou hast vowed to the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:24", "text": "When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, then thou mayest satisfy thy appetite with grapes at thy own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy vessel." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 23:25", "text": "When thou comest into the standing-corn of thy neighbor, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy hand: but thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing-corn." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:1", "text": "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it shall come to pass that she findeth no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:2", "text": "And when she hath departed from his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:3", "text": "And [if] the latter husband shall hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband shall die, who took her [to be] his wife;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:4", "text": "Her former husband who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:5", "text": "When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:6", "text": "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life for a pledge." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:7", "text": "If a man shall be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and shall make merchandise of him, or sell him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt remove evil from among you." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:8", "text": "Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:9", "text": "Remember what the LORD thy God did to Miriam by the way, after that ye come forth from Egypt." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:10", "text": "When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:11", "text": "Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to thee:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:12", "text": "And if the man [is] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:13", "text": "In any case thou shalt deliver to him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness to thee before the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:14", "text": "Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant [that is] poor and needy, [whether he is] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that [are] in thy land within thy gates:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:15", "text": "At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he should cry against thee to the LORD, and it be sin to thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:16", "text": "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:17", "text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment for a pledge:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:18", "text": "But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:19", "text": "When thou cuttest down thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:20", "text": "When thou beatest thy olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:21", "text": "When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 24:22", "text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:1", "text": "If there shall be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:2", "text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:3", "text": "Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile to thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:4", "text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn]." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:5", "text": "If brethren shall dwell together, and one of them shall die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him for a wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:6", "text": "And it shall be, [that] the first-born which she beareth, shall succeed in the name of his brother [who is] dead, that his name may not become extinct in Israel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:7", "text": "And if the man shall not like to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:8", "text": "Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and [if] he shall stand [to it], and say, I like not to take her," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:9", "text": "Then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother's house." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:10", "text": "And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:11", "text": "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband from the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:12", "text": "Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thy eye shall not pity [her]." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:13", "text": "Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:14", "text": "Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:15", "text": "[But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:16", "text": "For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:17", "text": "Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way, when ye had come forth from Egypt;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:18", "text": "How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and weary; and he feared not God." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 25:19", "text": "Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thy enemies on all sides, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it]." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:1", "text": "And it shall be, when thou hast come in to the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:2", "text": "That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:3", "text": "And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD thy God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:4", "text": "And the priest shall take the basket from thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:5", "text": "And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down to Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:6", "text": "And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:7", "text": "And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:8", "text": "And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:9", "text": "And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, [even] a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:10", "text": "And now, behold, I have brought the first-fruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me: and thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:11", "text": "And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:12", "text": "When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing, and hast given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:13", "text": "Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [my] house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:14", "text": "I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away [aught] of it for [any] unclean [use], nor given [aught] of it for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done according to all that thou hast commanded me." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:15", "text": "Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:16", "text": "This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to perform these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:17", "text": "Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:18", "text": "And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldst keep all his commandments;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 26:19", "text": "And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people to the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:1", "text": "And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:2", "text": "And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:3", "text": "And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou hast passed over, that thou mayest enter in to the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:4", "text": "Therefore it shall be when ye have gone over Jordan, [that] ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:5", "text": "And there shalt thou build an altar to the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:6", "text": "Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer on it burnt-offerings to the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:7", "text": "And thou shalt offer peace-offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:8", "text": "And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, very plainly." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:9", "text": "And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed and hearken, O Israel, this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:10", "text": "Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:11", "text": "And Moses charged the people the same day, saying," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:12", "text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye have come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:13", "text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:14", "text": "And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:15", "text": "Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the artificer, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]: and all the people shall answer, and say Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:16", "text": "Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:17", "text": "Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbor's landmark: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:18", "text": "Cursed [be] he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:19", "text": "Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:20", "text": "Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:21", "text": "Cursed [be] he that lieth with any manner of beast: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:22", "text": "Cursed [be] he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:23", "text": "Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:24", "text": "Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbor secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:25", "text": "Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 27:26", "text": "Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, Amen." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:1", "text": "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day; that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:2", "text": "And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:3", "text": "Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:4", "text": "Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy cattle, and the flocks of thy sheep." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:5", "text": "Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:6", "text": "Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:7", "text": "The LORD shall cause thy enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:8", "text": "The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy store-houses, and in all that thou settest thy hand to: and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:9", "text": "The LORD shall establish thee a holy people to himself, as he hath sworn to thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:10", "text": "And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:11", "text": "And the LORD shall make thee to abound in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore to thy fathers to give thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:12", "text": "The LORD shall open to thee his good treasure, the heaven to give rain to thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt not borrow." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:13", "text": "And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken to the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:14", "text": "And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:15", "text": "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:16", "text": "Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:17", "text": "Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:18", "text": "Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:19", "text": "Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:20", "text": "The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou undertakest to perform, until thou shalt be destroyed, and until thou shalt perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken me." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:21", "text": "The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave to thee, until he shall have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:22", "text": "The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew: and they shall pursue thee until thou dost perish." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:23", "text": "And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that [is] under thee [shall be] iron." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:24", "text": "The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou art destroyed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:25", "text": "The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thy enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:26", "text": "And thy carcass shall be food to all fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man shall drive [them] away." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:27", "text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which thou canst not be healed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:28", "text": "The LORD shall smite thee with the madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:29", "text": "And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:30", "text": "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:31", "text": "Thy ox [shall be] slain before thy eyes, and thou shalt not eat of it: thy ass [shall be] violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep [shall be] given to thy enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue [them]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:32", "text": "Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given to another people, and thy eyes shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thy hand." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:33", "text": "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labors, shall be eaten by a nation which thou knowest not: and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 34, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:34", "text": "So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 35, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:35", "text": "The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot to the top of thy head." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 36, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:36", "text": "The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 37, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:37", "text": "And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 38, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:38", "text": "Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and shalt gather [but] little: for the locust shall consume it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 39, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:39", "text": "Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress [them], but shalt neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes]: for the worm shall eat them." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 40, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:40", "text": "Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil: for thy olive shall cast [its fruit]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 41, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:41", "text": "Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them: for they shall go into captivity." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 42, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:42", "text": "All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 43, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:43", "text": "The stranger that [is] within thee shall rise above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 44, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:44", "text": "He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 45, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:45", "text": "Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou art destroyed: because thou hearkenedst not to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 46, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:46", "text": "And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 47, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:47", "text": "Because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things]:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 48, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:48", "text": "Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he hath destroyed thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 49, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:49", "text": "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth, a nation whose language thou shalt not understand:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 50, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:50", "text": "A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 51, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:51", "text": "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou art destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy cattle, or flocks of thy sheep, until he hath destroyed thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 52, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:52", "text": "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, in which thou didst trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 53, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:53", "text": "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the straitness with which thy enemies shall distress thee:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 54, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:54", "text": "[So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife of his bosom, and towards the remnant of his children whom he shall leave:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 55, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:55", "text": "So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness with which thy enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 56, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:56", "text": "The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom, and towards her son, and towards her daughter," }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 57, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:57", "text": "And towards her young one, her own offspring, and towards her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness with which thy enemy shall distress thee in thy gates." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 58, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:58", "text": "If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 59, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:59", "text": "Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 60, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:60", "text": "Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid; and they shall cleave to thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 61, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:61", "text": "Also every sickness, and every plague which [is] not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou art destroyed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 62, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:62", "text": "And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldst not obey the voice of the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 63, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:63", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to naught; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 64, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:64", "text": "And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 65, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:65", "text": "And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 66, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:66", "text": "And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have no assurance of thy life:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 67, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:67", "text": "In the morning thou shalt say, O that it were evening, and at evening thou shalt say, O that it were morning! for the fear of thy heart with which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 68, "name": "Deuteronomy 28:68", "text": "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I have said to thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold to your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man shall buy [you]." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:1", "text": "These [are] the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:2", "text": "And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:3", "text": "The great temptations which thy eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:4", "text": "Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:5", "text": "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not become old upon you, and thy shoe hath not become old upon thy foot." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:6", "text": "Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drank wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:7", "text": "And when ye came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:8", "text": "And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:9", "text": "Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:10", "text": "Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:11", "text": "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:12", "text": "That thou shouldst enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:13", "text": "That he may establish thee to-day for a people to himself, and [that] he may be to thee a God, as he hath said to thee, and as he hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:14", "text": "Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:15", "text": "But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:16", "text": "(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:17", "text": "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:18", "text": "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:19", "text": "And it should come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:20", "text": "The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:21", "text": "And the LORD shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:22", "text": "So that the generation to come of your children that shall arise after you, and the stranger that shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:23", "text": "[And that] the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor doth it bear, nor doth any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:24", "text": "Even all the nations shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:25", "text": "Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth from the land of Egypt:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:26", "text": "For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not given to them:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:27", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:28", "text": "And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 29:29", "text": "The secret [things belong] to the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] to us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:1", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:2", "text": "And shalt return to the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:3", "text": "That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:4", "text": "If [any] of thine shall be driven out to the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he bring thee:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:5", "text": "And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:6", "text": "And the LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:7", "text": "And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thy enemies, and on them that hate thee, who persecuted thee." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:8", "text": "And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:9", "text": "And the LORD thy God will make thee to abound in every work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:10", "text": "If thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and] if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:11", "text": "For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] not hid from thee, neither [is] it far off." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:12", "text": "It [is] not in heaven, that thou shouldst say, Who shall ascend for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:13", "text": "Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that thou shouldst say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:14", "text": "But the word [is] very nigh to thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:15", "text": "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:16", "text": "In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:17", "text": "But if thy heart shall turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:18", "text": "I denounce to you this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:19", "text": "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 30:20", "text": "That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave to him (for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days) that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:1", "text": "And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:2", "text": "And he said to them, I [am] a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said to me, thou shalt not go over this Jordan." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:3", "text": "The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, [and] he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: [and] Joshua he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:4", "text": "And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:5", "text": "And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:6", "text": "Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:7", "text": "And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people to the land which the LORD hath sworn to their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:8", "text": "And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:9", "text": "And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:10", "text": "And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:11", "text": "When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:12", "text": "Convene the people, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that [is] within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:13", "text": "And [that] their children who have not known [any thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:14", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:15", "text": "And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:16", "text": "And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will rise up, and commit idolatry with the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:17", "text": "Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:18", "text": "And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned to other gods." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:19", "text": "Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:20", "text": "For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:21", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they form, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:22", "text": "Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:23", "text": "And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:24", "text": "And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:25", "text": "That Moses commanded the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:26", "text": "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:27", "text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:28", "text": "Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:29", "text": "For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 31:30", "text": "And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:1", "text": "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:2", "text": "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:3", "text": "Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness to our God." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:4", "text": "[He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity: just and right [is] he." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:5", "text": "They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:6", "text": "Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:7", "text": "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:8", "text": "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:9", "text": "For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:10", "text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:11", "text": "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:12", "text": "[So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange God with him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:13", "text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:14", "text": "Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:15", "text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou hast waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [who] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:16", "text": "They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations they provoked him to anger." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:17", "text": "They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods which they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:18", "text": "Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:19", "text": "And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:20", "text": "And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [will be]: for they [are] a very froward generation, children in whom [is] no faith." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:21", "text": "They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those who are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:22", "text": "For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:23", "text": "I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:24", "text": "[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:25", "text": "The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:26", "text": "I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:27", "text": "Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:28", "text": "For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:29", "text": "O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:30", "text": "How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:31", "text": "For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:32", "text": "For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:33", "text": "Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:34", "text": "[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:35", "text": "To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 36, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:36", "text": "For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent for his servants: when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 37, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:37", "text": "And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 38, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:38", "text": "Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be your protection." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 39, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:39", "text": "See now that I, [even] I [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 40, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:40", "text": "For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 41, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:41", "text": "If I shall whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 42, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:42", "text": "I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 43, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:43", "text": "Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, [and] to his people." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 44, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:44", "text": "And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 45, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:45", "text": "And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 46, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:46", "text": "And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 47, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:47", "text": "For it [is] not a vain thing for you: because it [is] your life; and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 48, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:48", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 49, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:49", "text": "Ascend this mountain Abarim, [to] mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I give to the children of Israel for a Possession:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 50, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:50", "text": "And die in the mount whither thou goest, and be gathered to thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 51, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:51", "text": "Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 52, "name": "Deuteronomy 32:52", "text": "Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee], but thou shalt not go thither to the land which I give the children of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Deuteronomy 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:1", "text": "And this [is] the with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:2", "text": "And he said, the LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:3", "text": "Yea, he loved the people; all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:4", "text": "Moses commanded us a law; [even] the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:5", "text": "And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people [and] the tribes of Israel were assembled." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:6", "text": "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:7", "text": "And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people: let his hands be sufficient for him, and be thou a help [to him] from his enemies." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:8", "text": "And of Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with] whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:9", "text": "Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor know his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:10", "text": "They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thy altar." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:11", "text": "Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:12", "text": "[And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:13", "text": "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:14", "text": "And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:15", "text": "And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:16", "text": "And for the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, and [for] the good will of him that dwelt in the bush; let [the blessing] come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:17", "text": "His glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are] the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:18", "text": "And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and Issachar, in thy tents." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:19", "text": "They shall call the people to the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck [of] the abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid in the sand." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:20", "text": "And of Gad he said: Blessed [be] he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:21", "text": "And he provided the first part for himself, because there, [in] a portion of the lawgiver, [was he] seated: and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:22", "text": "And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:23", "text": "And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:24", "text": "And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:25", "text": "Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be]." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:26", "text": "[There is] none like to the God of Jeshurun, [who] rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellence on the sky." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:27", "text": "The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall say, Destroy [them]." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:28", "text": "Israel then shall dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine, also his heavens shall drop down dew." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "name": "Deuteronomy 33:29", "text": "Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like to thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellence! and thy enemies shall be found liars to thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Deuteronomy 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:1", "text": "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab, upon the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho: and the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:2", "text": "And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the utmost sea," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:3", "text": "And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Zoar." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:4", "text": "And the LORD said to him, This [is] the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to thy seed: I have caused thee to see [it] with thy eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:5", "text": "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:6", "text": "And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulcher to this day." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:7", "text": "And Moses [was] a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:8", "text": "And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:9", "text": "And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:10", "text": "And there arose not a prophet afterwards in Israel like to Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:11", "text": "In all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Deuteronomy 34:12", "text": "And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 6, "name": "Joshua", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Joshua 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 1:1", "text": "Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, it came to pass, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses's minister, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 1:2", "text": "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, [even] to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 1:3", "text": "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given to you, as I said to Moses." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 1:4", "text": "From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea towards the setting of the sun, shall be your border." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 1:5", "text": "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 1:6", "text": "Be strong and of a good courage: for to this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 1:7", "text": "Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 1:8", "text": "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate in it day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all [that is] written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 1:9", "text": "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 1:10", "text": "Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 1:11", "text": "Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you provisions; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 1:12", "text": "And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 1:13", "text": "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 1:14", "text": "Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and help them;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 1:15", "text": "Until the LORD shall have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return to the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side of Jordan towards the sun-rising." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 1:16", "text": "And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us, we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 1:17", "text": "According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 1:18", "text": "Every one that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken to thy words in all that thou commandest him, shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Joshua 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 2:1", "text": "And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go, view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into the house of a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged there." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 2:2", "text": "And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel, to search out the country." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 2:3", "text": "And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that have come to thee, who have entered into thy house: for they have come to search out all the country." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 2:4", "text": "And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men to me, but I knew not whence they [were]:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 2:5", "text": "And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went, I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 2:6", "text": "But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 2:7", "text": "And the men pursued them the way to Jordan to the fords: and as soon as they who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 2:8", "text": "And before they had lain down, she came up to them upon the roof;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 2:9", "text": "And she said to the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror hath fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 2:10", "text": "For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites, that [were] on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 2:11", "text": "And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 2:12", "text": "Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 2:13", "text": "And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 2:14", "text": "And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 2:15", "text": "Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house [was] upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 2:16", "text": "And she said to them, Depart to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned: and afterward ye may go your way." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 2:17", "text": "And the men said to her, We [will be] blameless of this thy oath which thou hast made us swear." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 2:18", "text": "Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window by which thou didst let us down: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household home to thee." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 2:19", "text": "And it shall be, [that] whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 2:20", "text": "And if thou shalt utter this our business, then we will be quit of thy oath which thou hast made us to swear." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 2:21", "text": "And she said, According to your words, so [be] it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 2:22", "text": "And they went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers had returned: and the pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 2:23", "text": "So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all [things] that befell them:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 2:24", "text": "And they said to Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Joshua 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 3:1", "text": "And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 3:2", "text": "And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 3:3", "text": "And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 3:4", "text": "Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed [this] way heretofore." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 3:5", "text": "And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 3:6", "text": "And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 3:7", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 3:8", "text": "And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye have come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 3:9", "text": "And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 3:10", "text": "And Joshua said, By this ye shall know that the living God [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 3:11", "text": "Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 3:12", "text": "Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 3:13", "text": "And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, [that] the waters of Jordan shall be cut off [from] the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in a heap." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 3:14", "text": "And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 3:15", "text": "And as they that bore the ark had come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,)" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 3:16", "text": "That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up in a heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan; and those that came down towards the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 3:17", "text": "And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people had passed quite over Jordan." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Joshua 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 4:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when all the people had quite passed over Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 4:2", "text": "Take you twelve men from the people, from every tribe a man," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 4:3", "text": "And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging-place where ye shall lodge this night." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 4:4", "text": "Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, of every tribe a man:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 4:5", "text": "And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 4:6", "text": "That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 4:7", "text": "Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel for ever." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 4:8", "text": "And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of Jordan, as the the LORD commanded Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 4:9", "text": "And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 4:10", "text": "For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 4:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when all the people had quite passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests in the presence of the people." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 4:12", "text": "And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses directed them:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 4:13", "text": "About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 4:14", "text": "On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 4:15", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 4:16", "text": "Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 4:17", "text": "Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 4:18", "text": "And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the midst of Jordan, [and] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up upon the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks, as [they did] before." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 4:19", "text": "And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 4:20", "text": "And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 4:21", "text": "And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 4:22", "text": "Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 4:23", "text": "For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye had passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had gone over:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 4:24", "text": "That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Joshua 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 5:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites who [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites who [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted; neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 5:2", "text": "At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 5:3", "text": "And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 5:4", "text": "And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, [that were] males, [even] all the men of war died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 5:5", "text": "Now all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth from Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 5:6", "text": "For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war who came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 5:7", "text": "And their children, [whom] he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 5:8", "text": "And it came to pass when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 5:9", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 5:10", "text": "And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 5:11", "text": "And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the same day." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 5:12", "text": "And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 5:13", "text": "And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 5:14", "text": "And he said, No; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, What saith my lord to his servant?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 5:15", "text": "And the captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place on which thou standest is holy: and Joshua did so." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Joshua 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 6:1", "text": "Now Jericho was closely shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 6:2", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and its king, [and] the mighty men of valor." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 6:3", "text": "And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war, [and] go round the city once: thus shalt thou do six days." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 6:4", "text": "And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 6:5", "text": "And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long [blast] with the ram's horn, [and] when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend every man straight before him." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 6:6", "text": "And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 6:7", "text": "And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 6:8", "text": "And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 6:9", "text": "And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rear-guard came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 6:10", "text": "And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall [any] word proceed from your mouth, until the day I bid you shout, then shall ye shout." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 6:11", "text": "So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 6:12", "text": "And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 6:13", "text": "And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rear-guard came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 6:14", "text": "And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 6:15", "text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 6:16", "text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 6:17", "text": "And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] in it, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 6:18", "text": "And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 6:19", "text": "But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] consecrated to the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 6:20", "text": "So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 6:21", "text": "And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 6:22", "text": "But Joshua had said to the two men that spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore to her." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 6:23", "text": "And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 6:24", "text": "And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] in it: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 6:25", "text": "And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel [even] to this day; because she hid the messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 6:26", "text": "And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay its foundation in his first-born, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 6:27", "text": "So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised] throughout all the country." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Joshua 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 7:1", "text": "But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 7:2", "text": "And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 7:3", "text": "And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; [and] make not all the people to labor thither; for they [are but] few." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 7:4", "text": "So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 7:5", "text": "And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] to Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 7:6", "text": "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 7:7", "text": "And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? O that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 7:8", "text": "O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turn their backs before their enemies!" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 7:9", "text": "For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will hear [of it], and will environ us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 7:10", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, Arise; Why liest thou thus upon thy face?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 7:11", "text": "Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put [it] even among their own goods." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 7:12", "text": "Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 7:13", "text": "Rise, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 7:14", "text": "In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to their families: and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 7:15", "text": "And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 7:16", "text": "So Joshua rose early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 7:17", "text": "And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 7:18", "text": "And he brought his household man by man; and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 7:19", "text": "And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what thou hast done, hide [it] not from me." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 7:20", "text": "And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 7:21", "text": "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them, and behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 7:22", "text": "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 7:23", "text": "And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 7:24", "text": "And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of Achor." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 7:25", "text": "And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 7:26", "text": "And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger: wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Joshua 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 8:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 8:2", "text": "And thou shalt do to Ai and her king, as thou didst to Jericho and her king: only its spoil, and its cattle, shall ye take for a prey to yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 8:3", "text": "So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 8:4", "text": "And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 8:5", "text": "And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will approach to the city: and it shall come to pass when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 8:6", "text": "(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 8:7", "text": "Then ye shall rise from the ambush and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 8:8", "text": "And it shall be when ye have taken the city, [that] ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 8:9", "text": "Joshua therefore sent them forth; and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 8:10", "text": "And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 8:11", "text": "And all the people, [even the people] of war that [were] with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now [there was] a valley between them and Ai." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 8:12", "text": "And he took about five thousand men; and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 8:13", "text": "And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 8:14", "text": "And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw [it], that they hasted and rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain: but he knew not that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the city." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 8:15", "text": "And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 8:16", "text": "And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together to pursue them: and they pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 8:17", "text": "And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-el that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 8:18", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy hand towards Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand towards the city." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 8:19", "text": "And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fire." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 8:20", "text": "And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 8:21", "text": "And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again and slew the men of Ai." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 8:22", "text": "And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 8:23", "text": "And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 8:24", "text": "And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 8:25", "text": "And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both of men and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 8:26", "text": "For Joshua drew not his hand back with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 8:27", "text": "Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 8:28", "text": "And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, [even] a desolation to this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 8:29", "text": "And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise upon it a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] to this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 8:30", "text": "Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 8:31", "text": "As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lifted up [any] iron: and they offered upon it burnt-offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 8:32", "text": "And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 8:33", "text": "And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark, and on that side, before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "Joshua 8:34", "text": "And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "Joshua 8:35", "text": "There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Joshua 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 9:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when all the kings who [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite heard [these things]," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 9:2", "text": "That they assembled themselves, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 9:3", "text": "And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 9:4", "text": "They did work craftily, and went and made as if they had been embassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 9:5", "text": "And old shoes and patched upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] moldy." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 9:6", "text": "And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 9:7", "text": "And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 9:8", "text": "And they said to Joshua, we [are] thy servants. And Joshua said to them, Who [are] ye? and whence come ye?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 9:9", "text": "And they said to him, From a very far country thy servants have come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 9:10", "text": "And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that [were] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who [was] at Ashtaroth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 9:11", "text": "Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We [are] your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 9:12", "text": "This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is moldy:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 9:13", "text": "And these bottles of wine which we filled, [were] new, and behold, they are rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 9:14", "text": "And the men took of their provisions, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 9:15", "text": "And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 9:16", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they [were] their neighbors, and [that] they dwelt among them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 9:17", "text": "And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 9:18", "text": "And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 9:19", "text": "But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 9:20", "text": "This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 9:21", "text": "And the princes said to them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood, and drawers of water to all the congregation; as the princes had promised them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 9:22", "text": "And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have ye deceived us, saying, We [are] very far from you; when ye dwell among us?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 9:23", "text": "Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bond-men, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 9:24", "text": "And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were greatly afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 9:25", "text": "And now, behold, we [are] in thy hand: do as it seemeth good and right to thee to do to us," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 9:26", "text": "And so did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 9:27", "text": "And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even to this day, in the place which he should choose." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Joshua 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 10:1", "text": "Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 10:2", "text": "That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all the men of it [were] mighty." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 10:3", "text": "Wherefore Adoni-zedec king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 10:4", "text": "Come up to me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 10:5", "text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, assembled themselves, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 10:6", "text": "And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains, are assembled against us." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 10:7", "text": "So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 10:8", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 10:9", "text": "Joshua therefore came to them suddenly, [and] went up from Gilgal all night." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 10:10", "text": "And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and to Makkedah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 10:11", "text": "And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the descent to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah, and they died: [they were] more who died with hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 10:12", "text": "Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 10:13", "text": "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 10:14", "text": "And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 10:15", "text": "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 10:16", "text": "But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 10:17", "text": "And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 10:18", "text": "And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 10:19", "text": "And stay you not, [but] pursue your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 10:20", "text": "And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest [who] remained of them entered into fortified cities." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 10:21", "text": "And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 10:22", "text": "Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings to me out of the cave." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 10:23", "text": "And they did so, and brought those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, [and] the king of Eglon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 10:24", "text": "And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 10:25", "text": "And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 10:26", "text": "And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 10:27", "text": "And it came to pass at the time of the setting of the sun, [that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had been hid, and laid great stones upon the cave's mouth, [which remain] until this very day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 10:28", "text": "And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that [were] in it; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 10:29", "text": "Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 10:30", "text": "And the LORD delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it; he let none remain in it; but did to the king of it as he did to the king of Jericho." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 10:31", "text": "And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 10:32", "text": "And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 10:33", "text": "Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "name": "Joshua 10:34", "text": "And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "name": "Joshua 10:35", "text": "And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "name": "Joshua 10:36", "text": "And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "name": "Joshua 10:37", "text": "And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and all the souls that [were] in them; he left none remaining (according to all that he had done to Eglon) but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that [were] in it." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "name": "Joshua 10:38", "text": "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "name": "Joshua 10:39", "text": "And he took it, and its king, and all its cities, and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] in them; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "name": "Joshua 10:40", "text": "So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "name": "Joshua 10:41", "text": "And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "name": "Joshua 10:42", "text": "And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time; because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 43, "name": "Joshua 10:43", "text": "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp in Gilgal." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Joshua 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 11:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard [those things], that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king Achshaph," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 11:2", "text": "And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Cinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 11:3", "text": "[And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and [to] the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 11:4", "text": "And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, many people, even as the sand that [is] upon the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very numerous." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 11:5", "text": "And when all these kings were met together, they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 11:6", "text": "And the LORD said to Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to-morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 11:7", "text": "So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fell upon them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 11:8", "text": "And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left to them none remaining." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 11:9", "text": "And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 11:10", "text": "And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote its king with the sword: for Hazor before-time was the head of all those kingdoms." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 11:11", "text": "And they smote all the souls that [were] in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 11:12", "text": "And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and smote them with the edge of the sword, [and] he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 11:13", "text": "But [as for] the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 11:14", "text": "And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves: but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 11:15", "text": "As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua: he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 11:16", "text": "So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 11:17", "text": "[Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even to Baal-gad, in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 11:18", "text": "Joshua made war a long time with all those kings." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 11:19", "text": "There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all [other] they took in battle." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 11:20", "text": "For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 11:21", "text": "And at that time came Joshua and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 11:22", "text": "There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 11:23", "text": "So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Joshua 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 12:1", "text": "Now these [are] the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side of Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon, to mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 12:2", "text": "Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and] ruled from Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 12:3", "text": "And from the plain to the sea of Cinneroth on the east, and to the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 12:4", "text": "And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [who was] of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 12:5", "text": "And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 12:6", "text": "Them did Moses the servant of the LORD, and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it [for] a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 12:7", "text": "And these [are] the kings of the country whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side of Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon, even to the mount Halak that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel [for] a possession according to their divisions;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 12:8", "text": "In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 12:9", "text": "The king of Jericho one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside Beth-el, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 12:10", "text": "The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 12:11", "text": "The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 12:12", "text": "The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 12:13", "text": "The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 12:14", "text": "The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 12:15", "text": "The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 12:16", "text": "The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 12:17", "text": "The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 12:18", "text": "The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 12:19", "text": "The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 12:20", "text": "The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 12:21", "text": "The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 12:22", "text": "The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 12:23", "text": "The king of Dor in the border of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 12:24", "text": "The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Joshua 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 13:1", "text": "Now Joshua was old [and] advanced in years; and the LORD said to him Thou art old [and] advanced in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 13:2", "text": "This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 13:3", "text": "From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 13:4", "text": "From the south all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that [is] beside the Sidonians, to Aphek to the borders of the Amorites:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 13:5", "text": "And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon towards the sun-rising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon to the entering into Hamath." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 13:6", "text": "And the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 13:7", "text": "Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 13:8", "text": "With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 13:9", "text": "From Aroer that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 13:10", "text": "And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 13:11", "text": "And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 13:12", "text": "All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants. For these did Moses smite, and cast them out." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 13:13", "text": "Nevertheless, the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 13:14", "text": "Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their inheritance, as he said to them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 13:15", "text": "And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben [inheritance] according to their families." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 13:16", "text": "And their border was from Aroer that [is] on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 13:17", "text": "Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 13:18", "text": "And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 13:19", "text": "And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 13:20", "text": "And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 13:21", "text": "And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 13:22", "text": "Balaam also the son of Beor, the sooth-sayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slain by them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 13:23", "text": "And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and its border. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and their villages." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 13:24", "text": "And Moses gave [inheritance] to the tribe of Gad, [even] to the children of Gad according to their families." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 13:25", "text": "And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that [is] before Rabbah;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 13:26", "text": "And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 13:27", "text": "And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [its] border, [even] to the edge of the sea of Cinneroth, on the other side of Jordan eastward." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 13:28", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 13:29", "text": "And Moses gave [inheritance] to the half-tribe of Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 13:30", "text": "And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, sixty cities:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 13:31", "text": "And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their families." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 13:32", "text": "These [are the countries] which Moses distributed for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side of Jordan by Jericho eastward." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 13:33", "text": "But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any] inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said to them." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Joshua 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 14:1", "text": "And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance to them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 14:2", "text": "By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half-tribe." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 14:3", "text": "For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half-tribe on the other side of Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 14:4", "text": "For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle, and for their substance." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 14:5", "text": "As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 14:6", "text": "Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said to him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 14:7", "text": "Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land; and I brought him word again as it [was] in my heart." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 14:8", "text": "Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 14:9", "text": "And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which thy feet have trodden shall be thy inheritance, and thy children's for ever; because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 14:10", "text": "And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while [the children of] Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day eighty five years old." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 14:11", "text": "As yet I [am as] strong this day, as [I was] in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 14:12", "text": "Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fortified: if the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 14:13", "text": "And Joshua blessed him, and gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 14:14", "text": "Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day; because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 14:15", "text": "And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba; [which Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Joshua 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 15:1", "text": "[This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin southward [was] the uttermost part of the south border." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 15:2", "text": "And their south border was from the shore of the salt-sea, from the bay that looketh southward:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 15:3", "text": "And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended on the south side to Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 15:4", "text": "[From thence] it passed towards Azmon, and went out to the river of Egypt; and the limits of that border were at the sea: this shall be your south limit." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 15:5", "text": "And the east border [was] the salt-sea, [even] to the end of Jordan: and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea, at the uttermost part of Jordan:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 15:6", "text": "And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 15:7", "text": "And the border went up towards Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward looking towards Gilgal, that [is] before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed towards the waters of En-shemesh, and the borders of it were at En-rogel:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 15:8", "text": "And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom, to the south side of the Jebusite; the same [is] Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of Hinnom westward, which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants northward:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 15:9", "text": "And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which [is] Kirjath-jearim:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 15:10", "text": "And the border compassed from Baalah westward to mount Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim (which [is] Chesalon) on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 15:11", "text": "And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel; and the terminations of the border were at the sea." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 15:12", "text": "And the west border [was] to the great sea, and its coast: this [is] the border of the children of Judah round about, according to their families." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 15:13", "text": "And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, [even] the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 15:14", "text": "And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 15:15", "text": "And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 15:16", "text": "And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 15:17", "text": "And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 15:18", "text": "And it came to pass, as she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field. And she lighted off [her] ass; and Caleb said to her, What wouldst thou?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 15:19", "text": "Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 15:20", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 15:21", "text": "And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah towards the border of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 15:22", "text": "And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 15:23", "text": "And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 15:24", "text": "Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 15:25", "text": "And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is] Hazor," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 15:26", "text": "Aman, and Shema, and Moladah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 15:27", "text": "And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 15:28", "text": "And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 15:29", "text": "Baalah, and Iim, and Azem," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 15:30", "text": "And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 15:31", "text": "And Ziglag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 15:32", "text": "And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 15:33", "text": "[And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "Joshua 15:34", "text": "And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "name": "Joshua 15:35", "text": "Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "name": "Joshua 15:36", "text": "And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "name": "Joshua 15:37", "text": "Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "name": "Joshua 15:38", "text": "And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "name": "Joshua 15:39", "text": "Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "name": "Joshua 15:40", "text": "And Cabbon, and Lahman, and Kithlish," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "name": "Joshua 15:41", "text": "And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 42, "name": "Joshua 15:42", "text": "Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 43, "name": "Joshua 15:43", "text": "And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 44, "name": "Joshua 15:44", "text": "And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 45, "name": "Joshua 15:45", "text": "Ekron, with her towns and her villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 46, "name": "Joshua 15:46", "text": "From Ekron even to the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 47, "name": "Joshua 15:47", "text": "Ashdod, with her towns and her villages; Gaza, with her towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and its border:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 48, "name": "Joshua 15:48", "text": "And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 49, "name": "Joshua 15:49", "text": "And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which [is] Debir," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 50, "name": "Joshua 15:50", "text": "And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 51, "name": "Joshua 15:51", "text": "And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 52, "name": "Joshua 15:52", "text": "Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 53, "name": "Joshua 15:53", "text": "And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 54, "name": "Joshua 15:54", "text": "And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba (which [is] Hebron) and Zior; nine cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 55, "name": "Joshua 15:55", "text": "Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 56, "name": "Joshua 15:56", "text": "And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 57, "name": "Joshua 15:57", "text": "Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 58, "name": "Joshua 15:58", "text": "Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 59, "name": "Joshua 15:59", "text": "And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 60, "name": "Joshua 15:60", "text": "Kirjath-baal (which [is] Kirjath-jearim) and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 61, "name": "Joshua 15:61", "text": "In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 62, "name": "Joshua 15:62", "text": "And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 63, "name": "Joshua 15:63", "text": "As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not expel them: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Joshua 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 16:1", "text": "And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 16:2", "text": "And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 16:3", "text": "And goeth down westward to the border of Japhleti, to the border of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the limits of it are at the sea." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 16:4", "text": "So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 16:5", "text": "And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-adar, to Beth-horon the upper:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 16:6", "text": "And the border went out towards the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 16:7", "text": "And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and terminated at Jordan." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 16:8", "text": "The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah; and the limits of it were at the sea. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 16:9", "text": "And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim [were] among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 16:10", "text": "And they did not expel the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Joshua 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 17:1", "text": "There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [was] the first-born of Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 17:2", "text": "There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these [were] the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 17:3", "text": "But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these [are] the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 17:4", "text": "And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 17:5", "text": "And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side of Jordan;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 17:6", "text": "Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 17:7", "text": "And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that [lieth] before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand to the inhabitants of En-tappuah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 17:8", "text": "[Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 17:9", "text": "And the border descended to the river Kanah, southward of the river. These cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh: the border of Manasseh also [was] on the north side of the river, and the limits of it were at the sea:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 17:10", "text": "Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward [it was] Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 17:11", "text": "And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Tanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, [even] three countries." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 17:12", "text": "Yet the children of Manasseh could not expel [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 17:13", "text": "Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel had become strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly expel them." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 17:14", "text": "And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath hitherto blessed me?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 17:15", "text": "And Joshua answered them, If thou [art] a great people, [then] go up to the wood, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim is too narrow for thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 17:16", "text": "And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, [both they] who [are] of Beth-shean and its towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 17:17", "text": "And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, [even] to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot [only]:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 17:18", "text": "But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the limits of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, [and] though they [are] strong." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Joshua 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 18:1", "text": "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there: and the land was subdued before them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 18:2", "text": "And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 18:3", "text": "And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long [are] ye slack to go to possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 18:4", "text": "Select from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shall come [again] to me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 18:5", "text": "And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their borders on the north." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 18:6", "text": "Ye shall therefore describe the land [in] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 18:7", "text": "But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance. And Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 18:8", "text": "And the men arose, and departed: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go, and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 18:9", "text": "And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven parts in a book, and came [again], to Joshua to the host at Shiloh." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 18:10", "text": "And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 18:11", "text": "And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the border of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 18:12", "text": "And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the limits of it were at the wilderness of Beth-aven." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 18:13", "text": "And the border went over from thence towards Luz, to the side of Luz (which [is] Beth-el) southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Beth-horon." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 18:14", "text": "And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Beth-horon southward; and the limits of it were at Kirjath-baal (which [is] Kirjath-jearim) a city of the children of Judah. This [was] the west quarter." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 18:15", "text": "And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjah-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 18:16", "text": "And the border came down to the end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son of Hinnom, [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 18:17", "text": "And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth towards Geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 18:18", "text": "And passed along towards the side over against Arabah northward, and went down to Arabah:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 18:19", "text": "And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the limits of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan. This [was] the south border." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 18:20", "text": "And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the limits of it round about, according to their families." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 18:21", "text": "Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 18:22", "text": "And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 18:23", "text": "And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 18:24", "text": "And Chephar-haamonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 18:25", "text": "Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 18:26", "text": "And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 18:27", "text": "And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 18:28", "text": "And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, (which [is] Jerusalem) Gibeath, [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Joshua 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 19:1", "text": "And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 19:2", "text": "And they had in their inheritance, Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 19:3", "text": "And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 19:4", "text": "And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 19:5", "text": "And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 19:6", "text": "And Beth-lebaoth, and Sheruhen; thirteen cities and their villages:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 19:7", "text": "Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 19:8", "text": "And all the villages that [were] around these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 19:9", "text": "Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 19:10", "text": "And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was to Sarid:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 19:11", "text": "And their border went up towards the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 19:12", "text": "And turned from Sarid eastward, towards the sun-rising, to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 19:13", "text": "And from thence passeth along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 19:14", "text": "And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the limits of it are in the valley of Jiphthah-el:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 19:15", "text": "And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 19:16", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 19:17", "text": "[And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 19:18", "text": "And their border was towards Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 19:19", "text": "And Hapharaim, and Shihon, and Anaharath," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 19:20", "text": "And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 19:21", "text": "And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 19:22", "text": "And the border reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh, and the limits of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 19:23", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 19:24", "text": "And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 19:25", "text": "And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 19:26", "text": "And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 19:27", "text": "And turneth towards the sun-rising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el towards the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 19:28", "text": "And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even] to great Zidon;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 19:29", "text": "And [then] the border turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the border turneth to Hosah: and the limits of it are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 19:30", "text": "Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 19:31", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 19:32", "text": "The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, [even] for the children of Naphtali according to their families." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 19:33", "text": "And their border was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakum; and the limits thereof were at Jordan:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "name": "Joshua 19:34", "text": "And [then] the border turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan towards the sun-rising." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "name": "Joshua 19:35", "text": "And the fortified cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "name": "Joshua 19:36", "text": "And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "name": "Joshua 19:37", "text": "And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "name": "Joshua 19:38", "text": "And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "name": "Joshua 19:39", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "name": "Joshua 19:40", "text": "[And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "name": "Joshua 19:41", "text": "And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 42, "name": "Joshua 19:42", "text": "And Shaalabbim, and Ajalon, and Jethlah," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 43, "name": "Joshua 19:43", "text": "And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 44, "name": "Joshua 19:44", "text": "And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 45, "name": "Joshua 19:45", "text": "And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 46, "name": "Joshua 19:46", "text": "And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 47, "name": "Joshua 19:47", "text": "And the border of the children of Dan, went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt in it, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 48, "name": "Joshua 19:48", "text": "This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 49, "name": "Joshua 19:49", "text": "When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their borders, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 50, "name": "Joshua 19:50", "text": "According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt in it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 51, "name": "Joshua 19:51", "text": "These [are] the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Joshua 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 20:1", "text": "The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 20:2", "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for you cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 20:3", "text": "That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and] ignorantly, may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 20:4", "text": "And when he that doth flee to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 20:5", "text": "And if the avenger of blood shall pursue him, then they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor ignorantly, and had not hated him before." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 20:6", "text": "And he shall dwell in that city, until he shall stand before the congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high-priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 20:7", "text": "And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, (which [is] Hebron) in the mountain of Judah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 20:8", "text": "And on the other side of Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 20:9", "text": "These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger sojourning among them, that whoever should kill [any] person unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Joshua 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 21:1", "text": "Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 21:2", "text": "And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for our cattle." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 21:3", "text": "And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 21:4", "text": "And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, [who were] of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 21:5", "text": "And the rest of the children of Kohath [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 21:6", "text": "And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 21:7", "text": "The children of Merari by their families [had] out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 21:8", "text": "And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 21:9", "text": "And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here] mentioned by name," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 21:10", "text": "Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families of the Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 21:11", "text": "And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak (which [city is] Hebron) in the hill-[country] of Judah, with its suburbs round it." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 21:12", "text": "But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 21:13", "text": "Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron with its suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 21:14", "text": "And Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 21:15", "text": "And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 21:16", "text": "And Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 21:17", "text": "And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 21:18", "text": "Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 21:19", "text": "All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 21:20", "text": "And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 21:21", "text": "For they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 21:22", "text": "And Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 21:23", "text": "And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 21:24", "text": "Ajalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 21:25", "text": "And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 21:26", "text": "All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 21:27", "text": "And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the [other] half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer, and Beesh-terah with its suburbs; two cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 21:28", "text": "And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with its suburbs, Dabareh with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 21:29", "text": "Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 21:30", "text": "And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 21:31", "text": "Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 21:32", "text": "And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 21:33", "text": "All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their families, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "name": "Joshua 21:34", "text": "And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "name": "Joshua 21:35", "text": "Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "name": "Joshua 21:36", "text": "And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahazah with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 37, "name": "Joshua 21:37", "text": "Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 38, "name": "Joshua 21:38", "text": "And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 39, "name": "Joshua 21:39", "text": "Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 40, "name": "Joshua 21:40", "text": "So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were [by] their lot twelve cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 41, "name": "Joshua 21:41", "text": "All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 42, "name": "Joshua 21:42", "text": "These cities were every one with their suburbs around them. Thus [were] all these cities." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 43, "name": "Joshua 21:43", "text": "And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 44, "name": "Joshua 21:44", "text": "And the LORD gave them rest on all sides, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 45, "name": "Joshua 21:45", "text": "There failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Joshua 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 22:1", "text": "Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 22:2", "text": "And said to them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 22:3", "text": "Ye have not left your brethren these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 22:4", "text": "And now the LORD your God hath given rest to your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and go to your tents, [and] to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of Jordan." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 22:5", "text": "But take diligent heed to perform the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 22:6", "text": "So Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to their tents." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 22:7", "text": "Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [possession] in Bashan: but to the [other] half of it gave Joshua among their brethren on this side of Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also to their tents, then he blessed them," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 22:8", "text": "And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to your tents, and with very many cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 22:9", "text": "And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, of which they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 22:10", "text": "And when they came to the borders of Jordan, that [are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to the sight." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 22:11", "text": "And the children of Israel heard it said, Behold, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 22:12", "text": "And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled at Shiloh, to go up to war against them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 22:13", "text": "And the children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 22:14", "text": "And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 22:15", "text": "And they came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 22:16", "text": "Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have built you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 22:17", "text": "[Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 22:18", "text": "But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, [seeing] ye rebel to-day against the LORD, that to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 22:19", "text": "Not withstanding, if the land of your possession [is] unclean, [then] pass ye over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 22:20", "text": "Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 22:21", "text": "Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 22:22", "text": "The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if [it is] in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 22:23", "text": "That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer on it burnt-offering, or meat-offering, or if to offer peace-offerings on it, let the LORD himself require [it];" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 22:24", "text": "And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to come your children may speak to our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 22:25", "text": "For the LORD hath made Jordan a boundary between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD. So shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 22:26", "text": "Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 22:27", "text": "But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 22:28", "text": "Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they shall [so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offerings, nor for sacrifices; but [it is] a witness between us and you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 22:29", "text": "Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt-offerings, for meat-offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the LORD our God that [is] before his tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 22:30", "text": "And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, and heads of the thousands of Israel who [were] with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 22:31", "text": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 22:32", "text": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 22:33", "text": "And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "name": "Joshua 22:34", "text": "And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD [is] God." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Joshua 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 23:1", "text": "And it came to pass, a long time after that the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies on all sides, that Joshua became old [and] advanced in age." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 23:2", "text": "And Joshua called for all Israel, [and] for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, I am old [and] advanced in age:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 23:3", "text": "And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done to all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 23:4", "text": "Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 23:5", "text": "And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised to you." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 23:6", "text": "Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left;" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 23:7", "text": "That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 23:8", "text": "But cleave to the LORD your God, as ye have done to this day." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 23:9", "text": "For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but [as for] you, no man hath been able to stand before you to this day." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 23:10", "text": "One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he [it is] that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 23:11", "text": "Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 23:12", "text": "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and associate with them, and they with you:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 23:13", "text": "Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 23:14", "text": "And behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth; and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you: all are come to pass to you, [and] not one thing hath failed of it." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 23:15", "text": "Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he hath destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 23:16", "text": "When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given to you." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Joshua 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Joshua 24:1", "text": "And Joshua convened all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Joshua 24:2", "text": "And Joshua said to all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Joshua 24:3", "text": "And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Joshua 24:4", "text": "And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Joshua 24:5", "text": "I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Joshua 24:6", "text": "And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Joshua 24:7", "text": "And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Joshua 24:8", "text": "And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of Jordan, and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Joshua 24:9", "text": "Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Joshua 24:10", "text": "But I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Joshua 24:11", "text": "And ye went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Joshua 24:12", "text": "And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites; [but] not with thy sword, nor with thy bow." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Joshua 24:13", "text": "And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Joshua 24:14", "text": "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Joshua 24:15", "text": "And if it seemeth evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Joshua 24:16", "text": "And the people answered, and said, Be it far from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Joshua 24:17", "text": "For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us, and our fathers, out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Joshua 24:18", "text": "And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; for he [is] our God." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Joshua 24:19", "text": "And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] a holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Joshua 24:20", "text": "If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Joshua 24:21", "text": "And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Joshua 24:22", "text": "And Joshua said to the people, Ye [are] witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Joshua 24:23", "text": "Now therefore put away ([said he]) the strange gods which [are] among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "Joshua 24:24", "text": "And the people said to Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "Joshua 24:25", "text": "So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "name": "Joshua 24:26", "text": "And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak that [was] by the sanctuary of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "name": "Joshua 24:27", "text": "And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us, it shall be therefore a witness to you, lest ye deny your God." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "name": "Joshua 24:28", "text": "So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "name": "Joshua 24:29", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died, [being] a hundred and ten years old." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "name": "Joshua 24:30", "text": "And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "name": "Joshua 24:31", "text": "And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "name": "Joshua 24:32", "text": "And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "name": "Joshua 24:33", "text": "And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill [that pertained] to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 7, "name": "Judges", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Judges 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 1:1", "text": "Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight against them?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 1:2", "text": "And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 1:3", "text": "And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 1:4", "text": "And Judah went up, and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 1:5", "text": "And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 1:6", "text": "But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 1:7", "text": "And Adoni-bezek said, seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table; as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 1:8", "text": "(Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 1:9", "text": "And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt on the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 1:10", "text": "And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 1:11", "text": "And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 1:12", "text": "And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 1:13", "text": "And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 1:14", "text": "And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off [her] ass; and Caleb said to her, What wilt thou?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 1:15", "text": "And she said to him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 1:16", "text": "And the children of the Kenite, Moses's father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 1:17", "text": "And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 1:18", "text": "Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Askelon with its border, and Ekron with its border." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 1:19", "text": "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out [the inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 1:20", "text": "And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 1:21", "text": "And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 1:22", "text": "And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the LORD [was] with them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 1:23", "text": "And the house of Joseph sent to explore Beth-el. Now the name of the city before [was] Luz." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 1:24", "text": "And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will show thee mercy." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 1:25", "text": "And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword: but they let go the man and all his family." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 1:26", "text": "And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz: which [is] its name to this day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 1:27", "text": "Neither did Manasseh expel [the inhabitants of] Beth-shean and its towns, nor Tanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 1:28", "text": "And it came to pass when Israel was strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly expel them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 1:29", "text": "Neither did Ephraim expel the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 1:30", "text": "Neither did Zebulun expel the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 1:31", "text": "Neither did Asher expel the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "name": "Judges 1:32", "text": "But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not expel them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "name": "Judges 1:33", "text": "Neither did Naphtali expel the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries to them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "name": "Judges 1:34", "text": "And the Amorites forced the children of Dan to the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "name": "Judges 1:35", "text": "But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Ajalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "name": "Judges 1:36", "text": "And the border of the Amorites [was] from the ascent to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Judges 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 2:1", "text": "And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to depart from Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 2:2", "text": "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 2:3", "text": "Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 2:4", "text": "And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 2:5", "text": "And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 2:6", "text": "And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 2:7", "text": "And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 2:8", "text": "And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] a hundred and ten years old." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 2:9", "text": "And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 2:10", "text": "And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 2:11", "text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 2:12", "text": "And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that [were] around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 2:13", "text": "And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 2:14", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 2:15", "text": "Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 2:16", "text": "Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 2:17", "text": "And yet they would not hearken to their judges, but they went astray after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 2:18", "text": "And when the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: (for the LORD repented because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and burdened them.)" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 2:19", "text": "And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that] they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 2:20", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 2:21", "text": "I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 2:22", "text": "That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it, as their fathers kept [it], or not." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 2:23", "text": "Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out speedily, neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Judges 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 3:1", "text": "Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, ([even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 3:2", "text": "Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it;)" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 3:3", "text": "[Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt on mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 3:4", "text": "And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken to the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 3:5", "text": "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 3:6", "text": "And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 3:7", "text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim, and the groves." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 3:8", "text": "Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 3:9", "text": "And when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, [even] Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 3:10", "text": "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 3:11", "text": "And the land had rest forty years: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 3:12", "text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 3:13", "text": "And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm-trees." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 3:14", "text": "So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 3:15", "text": "But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjaminite, a man left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present to Eglon king of Moab." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 3:16", "text": "But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 3:17", "text": "And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon [was] a very fat man." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 3:18", "text": "And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bore the present." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 3:19", "text": "But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 3:20", "text": "And Ehud came to him; and he was sitting in a summer-parlor, which he had for himself alone: and Ehud said, I have a message from God to thee. And he arose from [his] seat." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 3:21", "text": "And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 3:22", "text": "And the haft also entered after the blade: and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 3:23", "text": "Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 3:24", "text": "When he had gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor [were] locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer-chamber." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 3:25", "text": "And they tarried till they were ashamed: and behold, he opened not the doors of the parlor, therefore they took a key and opened [them]: and behold, their lord lay dead on the earth." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 3:26", "text": "And Ehud escaped while they tarried; and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 3:27", "text": "And it came to pass when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 3:28", "text": "And he said to them, Follow me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan towards Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 3:29", "text": "And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor: and there escaped not a man." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 3:30", "text": "So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 3:31", "text": "And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also delivered Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Judges 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 4:1", "text": "And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, after Ehud was dead." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 4:2", "text": "And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan that reigned in Hazor, the captain of whose host [was] Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 4:3", "text": "And the children of Israel cried to the LORD; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 4:4", "text": "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 4:5", "text": "And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 4:6", "text": "And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, [saying], Go, and draw towards mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 4:7", "text": "And I will draw to thee, to the river Kishon, Sisera the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 4:8", "text": "And Barak said to her, if thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 4:9", "text": "And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy honor; for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 4:10", "text": "And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 4:11", "text": "Now Heber the Kenite, [who was] of the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent to the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 4:12", "text": "And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to mount Tabor." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 4:13", "text": "And Sisera collected all his chariots, [even] nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that [were] with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the river of Kishon." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 4:14", "text": "And Deborah said to Barak, Arise, for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy hand: hath not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 4:15", "text": "And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera alighted from [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 4:16", "text": "But Barak pursued the chariots, and the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; [and] there was not a man left." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 4:17", "text": "Howbeit, Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 4:18", "text": "And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 4:19", "text": "And he said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 4:20", "text": "Again he said to her, stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 4:21", "text": "Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep, and weary. So he died." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 4:22", "text": "And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail [was] in his temples." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 4:23", "text": "So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 4:24", "text": "And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Judges 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 5:1", "text": "Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 5:2", "text": "Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 5:3", "text": "Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing [praise] to the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 5:4", "text": "LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 5:5", "text": "The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 5:6", "text": "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through by-ways." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 5:7", "text": "[The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 5:8", "text": "They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 5:9", "text": "My heart [is] towards the governors of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people: Bless ye the LORD." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 5:10", "text": "Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 5:11", "text": "[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [towards the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 5:12", "text": "Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 5:13", "text": "Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 5:14", "text": "Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 5:15", "text": "And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah: even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 5:16", "text": "Why abodest thou among the sheep-folds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of heart." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 5:17", "text": "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea-shore, and abode in his breaches." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 5:18", "text": "Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives to death in the high places of the field." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 5:19", "text": "The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 5:20", "text": "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 5:21", "text": "The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 5:22", "text": "Then were the horse's hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 5:23", "text": "Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 5:24", "text": "Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 5:25", "text": "He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 5:26", "text": "She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and struck through his temples." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 5:27", "text": "At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 5:28", "text": "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 5:29", "text": "Her wise ladies answered her, yes, she returned answer to herself." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 5:30", "text": "Have they not found; have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needle-work, of divers colors of needle-work on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 5:31", "text": "So let all thy enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Judges 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 6:1", "text": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 6:2", "text": "And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: [and] because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 6:3", "text": "And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 6:4", "text": "And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou comest to Gaza; and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 6:5", "text": "For they came up with their cattle, and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 6:6", "text": "And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 6:7", "text": "And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of the Midianites," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 6:8", "text": "That the LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth from the house of bondage;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 6:9", "text": "And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 6:10", "text": "And I said to you, I [am] the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 6:11", "text": "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] to Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon thrashed wheat by the wine-press, to hide [it] from the Midianites." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 6:12", "text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valor." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 6:13", "text": "And Gideon said to him, O my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then hath all this befallen us? and where [are] all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 6:14", "text": "And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 6:15", "text": "And he said to him, O my Lord, by what means shall I save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father's house." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 6:16", "text": "And the LORD said to him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 6:17", "text": "And he said to him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then show me a sign that thou talkest with me." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 6:18", "text": "Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring forth my present, and set [it] before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou comest again." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 6:19", "text": "And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out to him under the oak, and presented [it]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 6:20", "text": "And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay [them] upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 6:21", "text": "Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed from his sight." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 6:22", "text": "And when Gideon perceived that he was [an] angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 6:23", "text": "And the LORD said to him, Peace [be] to thee; fear not: thou shalt not die." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 6:24", "text": "Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: to this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 6:25", "text": "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 6:26", "text": "And build an altar to the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 6:27", "text": "Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said to him: and [so] it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do [it] by day, that he did [it] by night." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 6:28", "text": "And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 6:29", "text": "And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 6:30", "text": "Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that [was] by it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 6:31", "text": "And Joash said to all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [is] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "name": "Judges 6:32", "text": "Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "name": "Judges 6:33", "text": "Then all the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east were assembled, and went over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "name": "Judges 6:34", "text": "But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was called after him." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "name": "Judges 6:35", "text": "And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was called after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "name": "Judges 6:36", "text": "And Gideon said to God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "name": "Judges 6:37", "text": "Behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the floor; [and] if the dew shall be on the fleece only, and [it] shall [be] dry upon all the earth [besides], then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "name": "Judges 6:38", "text": "And it was so: for he rose early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl-full of water." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "name": "Judges 6:39", "text": "And Gideon said to God, Let not thy anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: Let me make trial, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "name": "Judges 6:40", "text": "And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Judges 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 7:1", "text": "Then Jerubbaal (who [is] Gideon) and all the people that [were] with him, rose early, and encamped beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh, in the valley." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 7:2", "text": "And the LORD said to Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand hath saved me." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 7:3", "text": "Now therefore, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever [is] fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 7:4", "text": "And the LORD said to Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for thee there; and it shall be, [that] of whom I say to thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say to thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 7:5", "text": "So he brought down the people to the water: and the LORD said to Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 7:6", "text": "And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 7:7", "text": "And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand: and let all the [other] people go every man to his place." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 7:8", "text": "So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent of all [the rest of] Israel every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. And the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 7:9", "text": "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the host; for I have delivered it into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 7:10", "text": "But if thou fearest to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 7:11", "text": "And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down to the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant to the outside of the armed men that [were] in the host." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 7:12", "text": "And the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and all the children of the east, lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 7:13", "text": "And when Gideon had come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream to his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and lo, a cake of barley-bread rolled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it that the tent lay along." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 7:14", "text": "And his fellow answered, and said, This [is] nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: [for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 7:15", "text": "And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped, and returned to the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 7:16", "text": "And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 7:17", "text": "And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that] as I do, so shall ye do." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 7:18", "text": "When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 7:19", "text": "So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that [were] in their hands." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 7:20", "text": "And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [with]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 7:21", "text": "And they stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 7:22", "text": "And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zereroth, [and] to the border of Abel-meholah, to Tabbath." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 7:23", "text": "And the men of Israel assembled out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 7:24", "text": "And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters to Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim assembled, and took the waters to Beth-barah and Jordan." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 7:25", "text": "And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the wine-press of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Judges 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 8:1", "text": "And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why hast thou treated us thus, that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? and they chid with him sharply." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 8:2", "text": "And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison of you? [Is] not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 8:3", "text": "God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then, when he had said that, their anger towards him abated." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 8:4", "text": "And Gideon came to Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet pursuing [them]." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 8:5", "text": "And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people that follow me: for they [are] faint, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 8:6", "text": "And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread to thy army?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 8:7", "text": "And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 8:8", "text": "And he went up thence to Penuel, and spoke to them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered [him]." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 8:9", "text": "And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 8:10", "text": "Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 8:11", "text": "And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 8:12", "text": "And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 8:13", "text": "And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun [had risen]," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 8:14", "text": "And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described to him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, [even] seventy seven men." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 8:15", "text": "And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye upbraided me, saying, [Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread to thy men [that are] weary?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 8:16", "text": "And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness, and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 8:17", "text": "And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 8:18", "text": "Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men [were they] whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou [art], so [were] they; each one resembled the children of a king." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 8:19", "text": "And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 8:20", "text": "And he said to Jether his first-born, Arise, [and] slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he [was] yet a youth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 8:21", "text": "Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man [is], [so is] his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that [were] on their camels' necks." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 8:22", "text": "Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 8:23", "text": "And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 8:24", "text": "And Gideon said to them, I would desire a request of you, that you would give me every man the ear-rings of his prey. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 8:25", "text": "And they answered, We will willingly give [them]. And they spread a garment, and cast into it every man the ear-rings of his prey." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 8:26", "text": "And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold; besides ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that [was] on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that [were] about their camels' necks." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 8:27", "text": "And Gideon made of it an ephod, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither astray after it: which thing became a snare to Gideon, and to his house." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 8:28", "text": "Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they raised their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 8:29", "text": "And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 8:30", "text": "And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 8:31", "text": "And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "Judges 8:32", "text": "And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "Judges 8:33", "text": "And it came to pass as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went astray after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "Judges 8:34", "text": "And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "Judges 8:35", "text": "Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Judges 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 9:1", "text": "And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 9:2", "text": "Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Which [is] better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] seventy persons, should reign over you, or that one should reign over you? remember also that I [am] your bone and your flesh." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 9:3", "text": "And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 9:4", "text": "And they gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons, who followed him." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 9:5", "text": "And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] seventy persons, upon one stone; notwithstanding, yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 9:6", "text": "And all the men of Shechem assembled, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 9:7", "text": "And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice and cried, and said to them, Hearken to me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken to you." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 9:8", "text": "The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive-tree, Reign thou over us." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 9:9", "text": "But the olive-tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 9:10", "text": "And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, [and] reign over us." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 9:11", "text": "But the fig-tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 9:12", "text": "Then said the trees to the vine, Come thou, [and] reign over us." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 9:13", "text": "And the vine said to them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 9:14", "text": "Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come thou, [and] reign over us." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 9:15", "text": "And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 9:16", "text": "Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 9:17", "text": "(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you from the hand of Midian:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 9:18", "text": "And ye have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your brother:)" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 9:19", "text": "If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 9:20", "text": "But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 9:21", "text": "And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 9:22", "text": "When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 9:23", "text": "Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 9:24", "text": "That the cruelty [done] to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem who aided him in the killing of his brethren." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 9:25", "text": "And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him on the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 9:26", "text": "And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 9:27", "text": "And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trod [the grapes], and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 9:28", "text": "And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who [is] Abimelech, and who [is] Shechem, that we should serve him; [is] not [he] the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 9:29", "text": "And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thy army, and come out." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 9:30", "text": "And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 9:31", "text": "And he sent messengers to Abimelech privately, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed, and his brethren, are come to Shechem; and behold, they fortify the city against thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "Judges 9:32", "text": "Now therefore rise by night, thou, and the people that [are] with thee, and lie in wait in the field:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "name": "Judges 9:33", "text": "And it shall be, [that] in the morning, as soon as the sun hath risen, thou shalt rise early, and attack the city: and behold, [when] he and the people that [are] with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "name": "Judges 9:34", "text": "And Abimelech rose, and all the people that [were] with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "name": "Judges 9:35", "text": "And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose, and the people that [were] with him, from lying in wait." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "name": "Judges 9:36", "text": "And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as [if they were] men." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "name": "Judges 9:37", "text": "And Gaal spoke again, and said, See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "name": "Judges 9:38", "text": "Then said Zebul to him, Where [is] now thy mouth, with which thou saidst, Who [is] Abimelech, that we should serve him? [are] not these the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "name": "Judges 9:39", "text": "And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "name": "Judges 9:40", "text": "And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown [and] wounded, [even] to the entrance of the gate." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "name": "Judges 9:41", "text": "And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "name": "Judges 9:42", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "name": "Judges 9:43", "text": "And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and behold, the people [had] come out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 44, "name": "Judges 9:44", "text": "And Abimelech, and the company that [was] with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two [other] companies ran upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and slew them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 45, "name": "Judges 9:45", "text": "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [were] in it, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 46, "name": "Judges 9:46", "text": "And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into a hold of the house of the god Berith." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 47, "name": "Judges 9:47", "text": "And it was told to Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were assembled." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 48, "name": "Judges 9:48", "text": "And Abimelech ascended mount Zalmon, he and all the people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and said to the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, [and] do as I [have done]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 49, "name": "Judges 9:49", "text": "And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them: so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 50, "name": "Judges 9:50", "text": "Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 51, "name": "Judges 9:51", "text": "But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] after them, and ascended to the top of the tower." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 52, "name": "Judges 9:52", "text": "And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 53, "name": "Judges 9:53", "text": "And a certain woman cast a piece of of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 54, "name": "Judges 9:54", "text": "Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 55, "name": "Judges 9:55", "text": "And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 56, "name": "Judges 9:56", "text": "Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 57, "name": "Judges 9:57", "text": "And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Judges 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 10:1", "text": "And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 10:2", "text": "And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 10:3", "text": "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 10:4", "text": "And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair to this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 10:5", "text": "And Jair died, and was buried in Camon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 10:6", "text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 10:7", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 10:8", "text": "And that year they harassed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side of Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 10:9", "text": "Moreover, the children of Ammon passed over Jordan, to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was greatly distressed." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 10:10", "text": "And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 10:11", "text": "And the LORD said to the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 10:12", "text": "The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 10:13", "text": "Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 10:14", "text": "Go and cry to the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 10:15", "text": "And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do thou to us whatever seemeth good to thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 10:16", "text": "And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 10:17", "text": "Then the children of Ammon were assembled, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves, and encamped in Mizpeh." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 10:18", "text": "And the people [and] princes of Gilead said one to another, What man [is he] that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Judges 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 11:1", "text": "Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he [was] the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 11:2", "text": "And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a strange woman." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 11:3", "text": "Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and [they] went out with him." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 11:4", "text": "And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 11:5", "text": "And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah out of the land of Tob:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 11:6", "text": "And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 11:7", "text": "And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did ye not hate me, and expel me from my father's house; and why have ye come to me now when ye are in distress?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 11:8", "text": "And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 11:9", "text": "And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 11:10", "text": "And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD be a witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 11:11", "text": "Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 11:12", "text": "And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou hast come against me to fight in my land?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 11:13", "text": "And the king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 11:14", "text": "And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 11:15", "text": "And said to him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 11:16", "text": "But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness to the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 11:17", "text": "Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken [to it]. And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab; but he would not [consent]. And Israel abode in Kadesh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 11:18", "text": "Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon [was] the border of Moab." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 11:19", "text": "And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land to my place." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 11:20", "text": "But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon collected all his people, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 11:21", "text": "And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 11:22", "text": "And they possessed all the borders of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 11:23", "text": "So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldst thou possess it?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 11:24", "text": "Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 11:25", "text": "And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 11:26", "text": "While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that [are] along by the borders of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover [them] within that time?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 11:27", "text": "Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 11:28", "text": "But, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah which he sent him." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 11:29", "text": "Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [to] the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 11:30", "text": "And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 11:31", "text": "Then it shall be, that whatever cometh out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it for a burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "Judges 11:32", "text": "So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "name": "Judges 11:33", "text": "And he smote them from Aroer even till thou comest to Minnith, [even] twenty cities, and to the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "name": "Judges 11:34", "text": "And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "name": "Judges 11:35", "text": "And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "name": "Judges 11:36", "text": "And she said to him, My father, [if] thou hast opened thy mouth to the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thy enemies, [even] of the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "name": "Judges 11:37", "text": "And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "name": "Judges 11:38", "text": "And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "name": "Judges 11:39", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her [according] to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "name": "Judges 11:40", "text": "[That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Judges 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 12:1", "text": "And the men of Ephraim assembled, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee; we will burn thy house upon thee with fire." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 12:2", "text": "And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 12:3", "text": "And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then have ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 12:4", "text": "Then Jephthah collected all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 12:5", "text": "And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites who had escaped, said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said to him, [Art] thou an Ephraimite? If he said, No;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 12:6", "text": "Then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 12:7", "text": "And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 12:8", "text": "And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 12:9", "text": "And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters [whom] he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons: and he judged Israel seven years." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 12:10", "text": "Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 12:11", "text": "And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 12:12", "text": "And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Ajalon in the country of Zebulun." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 12:13", "text": "And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 12:14", "text": "And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on seventy ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 12:15", "text": "And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Judges 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 13:1", "text": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 13:2", "text": "And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bore not." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 13:3", "text": "And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 13:4", "text": "Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine, nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 13:5", "text": "For lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from his birth: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 13:6", "text": "Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither did he tell me his name:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 13:7", "text": "But he said to me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean [thing]: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from his birth to the day of his death." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 13:8", "text": "Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God, whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child that shall be born." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 13:9", "text": "And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband [was] not with her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 13:10", "text": "And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man hath appeared to me, that came to me the [other] day." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 13:11", "text": "And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, [Art] thou the man that didst speak to the woman? And he said, I [am]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 13:12", "text": "And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and [how] shall we do to him?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 13:13", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman, let her beware." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 13:14", "text": "She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]; all that I commanded her let her observe." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 13:15", "text": "And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 13:16", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though thou shouldst detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 13:17", "text": "And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What [is] thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass, we may do thee honor?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 13:18", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to him, why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it [is] secret?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 13:19", "text": "So Manoah took a kid, with a meat-offering, and offered [it] upon a rock to the LORD; and [the angel] did wonderously, and Manoah and his wife looked on." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 13:20", "text": "For it came to pass, when the flame ascended towards heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on [it], and fell on their faces to the ground." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 13:21", "text": "But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he [was] an angel of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 13:22", "text": "And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 13:23", "text": "But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these [things], nor would, as at this time, have told us [such things] as these." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 13:24", "text": "And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the LORD blessed him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 13:25", "text": "And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Judges 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 14:1", "text": "And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 14:2", "text": "And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me for a wife." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 14:3", "text": "Then his father and his mother said to him, [Is there] not a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 14:4", "text": "But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 14:5", "text": "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared against him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 14:6", "text": "And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 14:7", "text": "And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 14:8", "text": "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, [there was] a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 14:9", "text": "And he took of it in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they ate: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 14:10", "text": "So his father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 14:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 14:12", "text": "And Samson said to them, I will now propose a riddle to you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 14:13", "text": "But if ye cannot declare [it] to me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said to him, propose thy riddle, that we may hear it." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 14:14", "text": "And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 14:15", "text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take what we possess? [is it] not [so]?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 14:16", "text": "And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast proposed a riddle to the children of my people, and hast not told [it] to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told [it] to my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell [it] to thee?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 14:17", "text": "And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she urged him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 14:18", "text": "And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is] stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 14:19", "text": "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments to them who expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 14:20", "text": "But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Judges 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 15:1", "text": "But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 15:2", "text": "And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 15:3", "text": "And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 15:4", "text": "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midst between two tails." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 15:5", "text": "And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 15:6", "text": "Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 15:7", "text": "And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 15:8", "text": "And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 15:9", "text": "Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 15:10", "text": "And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to us." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 15:11", "text": "Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 15:12", "text": "And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 15:13", "text": "And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 15:14", "text": "[And] when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his the hands." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 15:15", "text": "And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 15:16", "text": "And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 15:17", "text": "And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 15:18", "text": "And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 15:19", "text": "But God cleaved a hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drank, his spirit came again, and he revived. Wherefore he called the name of it En-hakkore, which [is] in Lehi to this day." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 15:20", "text": "And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Judges 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 16:1", "text": "Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 16:2", "text": "[And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they encompassed [him], and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning when it is day we shall kill him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 16:3", "text": "And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put [them] upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that [is] before Hebron." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 16:4", "text": "And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 16:5", "text": "And the lords of the Philistines came to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in what his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 16:6", "text": "And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength [lieth], and with what thou mayest be bound to afflict thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 16:7", "text": "And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withs, that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 16:8", "text": "Then the lords of the Philistines brought to her seven green withs, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 16:9", "text": "(Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber.) And she said to him, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 16:10", "text": "And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, with what thou mayest be bound." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 16:11", "text": "And he said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were used, then shall I be weak, and be as another man." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 16:12", "text": "Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson. (And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber.) And he broke them from off his arms like a thread." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 16:13", "text": "And Delilah said to Samson, hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with what thou mayest be bound. And he said to her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 16:14", "text": "And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 16:15", "text": "And she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart [is] not with me? Thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me in what thy great strength [lieth]." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 16:16", "text": "And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed to death;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 16:17", "text": "That he told her all his heart, and said to her, There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I [have been] a Nazarite to God from my birth: if I be shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 16:18", "text": "And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath disclosed to me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought money in their hand." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 16:19", "text": "And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 16:20", "text": "And she said, the Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 16:21", "text": "But the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 16:22", "text": "However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 16:23", "text": "Then the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 16:24", "text": "And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country; who slew many of us." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 16:25", "text": "And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 16:26", "text": "And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars upon which the house standeth, that I may lean upon them." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 16:27", "text": "Now the house was full of men and women: and all the lords of the Philistines [were] there: and [there were] upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 16:28", "text": "And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 16:29", "text": "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was supported, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 16:30", "text": "And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 16:31", "text": "Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Judges 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 17:1", "text": "And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 17:2", "text": "And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst curse, and speak of also in my ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed [be thou] of the LORD, my son." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 17:3", "text": "And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 17:4", "text": "Yet he restored the money to his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 17:5", "text": "And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 17:6", "text": "In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 17:7", "text": "And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 17:8", "text": "And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 17:9", "text": "And Micah said to him, Whence comest thou? And he said to him, I [am] a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 17:10", "text": "And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 17:11", "text": "And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 17:12", "text": "And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 17:13", "text": "Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for [my] priest." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Judges 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 18:1", "text": "In those days [there was] no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 18:2", "text": "And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their borders, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to explore the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 18:3", "text": "When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said to him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what hast thou here?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 18:4", "text": "And he said to them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 18:5", "text": "And they said to him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 18:6", "text": "And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way in which ye go." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 18:7", "text": "Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] in it, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 18:8", "text": "And they came to their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 18:9", "text": "And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and behold, it [is] very good: and [are] ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the land." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 18:10", "text": "When ye go, ye shall come to a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there] is no want of any thing that [is] on the earth." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 18:11", "text": "And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 18:12", "text": "And they went up, and encamped in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjath-jearim." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 18:13", "text": "And they passed thence to mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 18:14", "text": "Then answered the five men that went to explore the country of Laish, and said to their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 18:15", "text": "And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, [even] to the house of Micah, and saluted him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 18:16", "text": "And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, who [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 18:17", "text": "And the five men that went to explore the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 18:18", "text": "And these went into Micah's house, and brought the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest to them, What do ye?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 18:19", "text": "And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [Is it] better for thee to be a priest to the house of one man, or that thou shouldst be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 18:20", "text": "And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 18:21", "text": "So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, and the cattle, and the furniture before them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 18:22", "text": "[And] when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house were collected, and overtook the children of Dan." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 18:23", "text": "And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 18:24", "text": "And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye have gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say to me, What aileth thee?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 18:25", "text": "And the children of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows rush upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 18:26", "text": "And the children of Dan departed: and when Micah saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 18:27", "text": "And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came to Laish, to a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 18:28", "text": "And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far from Zidon, and they had no business with [any] man; and it was in the valley that [lieth] by Beth-rehob. And they built a city and dwelt in it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 18:29", "text": "And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: but the name of the city [was] Laish at the first." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 18:30", "text": "And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 18:31", "text": "And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Judges 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 19:1", "text": "And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 19:2", "text": "And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 19:3", "text": "And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, [and] to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 19:4", "text": "And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drank, and lodged there." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 19:5", "text": "And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he arose to depart: and the damsel's father said to his son-in-law, Comfort thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward depart." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 19:6", "text": "And they sat down, and ate and drank both of them together: for the damsel's father had said to the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 19:7", "text": "And when the man rose to depart, his father-in-law urged him: therefore he lodged there again." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 19:8", "text": "And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thy heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they ate both of them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 19:9", "text": "And when the man arose to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said to him, Behold now the day draweth towards evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day is coming to an end, lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 19:10", "text": "But the man would not tarry that night, but he arose and departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 19:11", "text": "[And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in to this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 19:12", "text": "And his master said to him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 19:13", "text": "And he said to his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 19:14", "text": "And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which [belongeth] to Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 19:15", "text": "And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat down in a street of the city: for [there was] no man that took them into his house to lodge." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 19:16", "text": "And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening, who [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he dwelt in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjaminites." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 19:17", "text": "And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a way-faring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 19:18", "text": "And he said to him, We [are] passing from Beth-lehem-Judah towards the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me into [his] house." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 19:19", "text": "Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 19:20", "text": "And the old man said, Peace [be] with thee; however, [let] all thy wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in the street." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 19:21", "text": "So he brought him into his house, and gave provender to the asses: and they washed their feet and ate and drank." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 19:22", "text": "[Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house on all sides, [and] beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 19:23", "text": "And the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you, do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this folly." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 19:24", "text": "Behold, [here] is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good to you: but to this man do not so vile a thing." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 19:25", "text": "But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 19:26", "text": "Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 19:27", "text": "And her lord rose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] upon the threshhold." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 19:28", "text": "And he said to her, Rise, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her upon an ass, and the man rose, and went to his place." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 19:29", "text": "And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the borders of Israel." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 19:30", "text": "And it was so, that all that saw it, said, There hath been no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came from the land of Egypt to this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak [your minds]." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Judges 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 20:1", "text": "Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD in Mizpeh." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 20:2", "text": "And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 20:3", "text": "(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 20:4", "text": "And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 20:5", "text": "And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 20:6", "text": "And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 20:7", "text": "Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 20:8", "text": "And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his house:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 20:9", "text": "But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] by lot against it;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 20:10", "text": "And we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch provisions for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 20:11", "text": "So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 20:12", "text": "And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 20:13", "text": "Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, who [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and banish evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 20:14", "text": "But the children of Benjamin assembled out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 20:15", "text": "And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 20:16", "text": "Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones to a hair-[breadth], and not miss." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 20:17", "text": "And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 20:18", "text": "And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 20:19", "text": "And the children of Israel rose in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 20:20", "text": "And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 20:21", "text": "And the children of Benjamin came forth from Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 20:22", "text": "And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 20:23", "text": "(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 20:24", "text": "And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 20:25", "text": "And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "Judges 20:26", "text": "Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "Judges 20:27", "text": "And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "Judges 20:28", "text": "And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver them into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "Judges 20:29", "text": "And Israel set liers in wait around Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "name": "Judges 20:30", "text": "And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "name": "Judges 20:31", "text": "And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "name": "Judges 20:32", "text": "And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "name": "Judges 20:33", "text": "And all the men of Israel rose out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the meadows of Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "name": "Judges 20:34", "text": "And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe: but they knew not that evil [was] near them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "name": "Judges 20:35", "text": "And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjaminites that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "name": "Judges 20:36", "text": "So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjaminites, because they trusted to the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "name": "Judges 20:37", "text": "And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "name": "Judges 20:38", "text": "Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke to rise from the city." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "name": "Judges 20:39", "text": "And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "name": "Judges 20:40", "text": "But when the flame began to rise from the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the flame of the city ascended to heaven." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "name": "Judges 20:41", "text": "And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil had come upon them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "name": "Judges 20:42", "text": "Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them who [came] out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 43, "name": "Judges 20:43", "text": "[Thus] they inclosed the Benjaminites on all sides, [and] chased them, [and] trod them down with ease over against Gibeah towards the sun-rising." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 44, "name": "Judges 20:44", "text": "And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 45, "name": "Judges 20:45", "text": "And they turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 46, "name": "Judges 20:46", "text": "So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 47, "name": "Judges 20:47", "text": "But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 48, "name": "Judges 20:48", "text": "And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Judges 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Judges 21:1", "text": "Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Judges 21:2", "text": "And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept bitterly;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Judges 21:3", "text": "And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Judges 21:4", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings, and peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Judges 21:5", "text": "And the children of Israel said, Who [is there] among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Judges 21:6", "text": "And the children of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Judges 21:7", "text": "How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD, that we will not give them of our daughters for wives?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Judges 21:8", "text": "And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? and behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Judges 21:9", "text": "For the people were numbered, and behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Judges 21:10", "text": "And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Judges 21:11", "text": "And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Judges 21:12", "text": "And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Judges 21:13", "text": "And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Judges 21:14", "text": "And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Judges 21:15", "text": "And the people repented for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Judges 21:16", "text": "Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Judges 21:17", "text": "And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them that have escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Judges 21:18", "text": "But, we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that giveth a wife to Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Judges 21:19", "text": "Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Judges 21:20", "text": "Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go, and lie in wait in the vineyards;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Judges 21:21", "text": "And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Judges 21:22", "text": "And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be favorable to them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give to them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Judges 21:23", "text": "And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities and dwelt in them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Judges 21:24", "text": "And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went from thence every man to his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Judges 21:25", "text": "In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 8, "name": "Ruth", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Ruth 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Ruth 1:1", "text": "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to dwell in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Ruth 1:2", "text": "And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Ruth 1:3", "text": "And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Ruth 1:4", "text": "And they took to themselves wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Ruth 1:5", "text": "And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left by her two sons and her husband." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Ruth 1:6", "text": "Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Ruth 1:7", "text": "Wherefore she went forth from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Ruth 1:8", "text": "And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Ruth 1:9", "text": "The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Ruth 1:10", "text": "And they said to her, surely we will return with thee to thy people." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Ruth 1:11", "text": "And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? shall I bear more sons, that they may be your husbands?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Ruth 1:12", "text": "Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have a husband also to-night, and should also bear sons;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Ruth 1:13", "text": "Would ye wait for them till they should be grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Ruth 1:14", "text": "And they lifted up their voice, and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth cleaved to her." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Ruth 1:15", "text": "And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law hath gone back to her people, and to her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Ruth 1:16", "text": "And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, [or] to return from following thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people [shall be] my people, and thy God my God:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Ruth 1:17", "text": "Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if aught] but death shall part thee and me." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Ruth 1:18", "text": "When she saw that she was steadfastly resolved to go with her, then she left speaking to her." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Ruth 1:19", "text": "So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they had come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Ruth 1:20", "text": "And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Ruth 1:21", "text": "I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Ruth 1:22", "text": "So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley-harvest." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Ruth 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Ruth 2:1", "text": "And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Ruth 2:2", "text": "And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Ruth 2:3", "text": "And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her lot was to light on a part of the field [belonging] to Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Ruth 2:4", "text": "And behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the reapers, The LORD [be] with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Ruth 2:5", "text": "Then said Boaz to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel [is] this?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Ruth 2:6", "text": "And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It [is] the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi from the country of Moab:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Ruth 2:7", "text": "And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Ruth 2:8", "text": "Then said Boaz to Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Ruth 2:9", "text": "[Let] thy eyes [be] on the field that they are reaping, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art thirsty go to the vessels, and drink of [that] which the young men have drawn." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Ruth 2:10", "text": "Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found grace in thy eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a stranger?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Ruth 2:11", "text": "And Boaz answered and said to her, It hath fully been shown to me, all that thou hast done to thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and hast come to a people which thou knewest not heretofore." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Ruth 2:12", "text": "The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to trust." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Ruth 2:13", "text": "Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken kindly to thy handmaid, though I am not like to one of thy handmaidens." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Ruth 2:14", "text": "And Boaz said to her, At meal-time come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she ate, and was satisfied, and left." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Ruth 2:15", "text": "And when she had risen to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Ruth 2:16", "text": "And let fall also [some] of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave [them], that she may glean [them], and rebuke her not." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Ruth 2:17", "text": "So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out that which she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Ruth 2:18", "text": "And she took [it], and went into the city: and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her what she had reserved after she was satisfied." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Ruth 2:19", "text": "And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou labored? blessed be he that took knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to-day [is] Boaz." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Ruth 2:20", "text": "And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed [be] he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man [is] near of kin to us, one of our next kinsmen." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Ruth 2:21", "text": "And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Ruth 2:22", "text": "And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, [It is] good, my daughter, that thou shouldst go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Ruth 2:23", "text": "So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean to the end of barley-harvest and of wheat-harvest; and dwelt with her mother-in-law." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Ruth 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Ruth 3:1", "text": "Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Ruth 3:2", "text": "And now [is] not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Ruth 3:3", "text": "Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and go down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Ruth 3:4", "text": "And it shall be when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Ruth 3:5", "text": "And she said to her, All that thou sayest to me I will do." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Ruth 3:6", "text": "And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Ruth 3:7", "text": "And when Boaz had eaten and drank, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid herself down." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Ruth 3:8", "text": "And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and behold, a woman lay at his feet." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Ruth 3:9", "text": "And he said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth thy handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou [art] a near kinsman." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Ruth 3:10", "text": "And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou didst not follow young men, whether poor or rich." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Ruth 3:11", "text": "And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou [art] a virtuous woman." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Ruth 3:12", "text": "And now it is true that I [am thy] near kinsman: yet there is a kinsman nearer than I." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Ruth 3:13", "text": "Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he will perform to thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Ruth 3:14", "text": "And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came to the floor." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Ruth 3:15", "text": "Also he said, Bring the vail that [thou hast] upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid [it] on her: and she went into the city." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Ruth 3:16", "text": "And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who [art] thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Ruth 3:17", "text": "And she said, These six [measures] of barley he gave me; for he said to me, Go not empty to thy mother-in-law." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Ruth 3:18", "text": "Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou knowest how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he hath finished the thing this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Ruth 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Ruth 4:1", "text": "Then Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there: and behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Ruth 4:2", "text": "And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Ruth 4:3", "text": "And he said to the kinsman, Naomi, that has come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother Elimelech's:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Ruth 4:4", "text": "And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it], [then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] besides thee; and I [am] after thee. And he said, I will redeem [it]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Ruth 4:5", "text": "Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Ruth 4:6", "text": "And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Ruth 4:7", "text": "Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for confirming all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbor: and this [was] a testimony in Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Ruth 4:8", "text": "Therefore the kinsman said to Boaz, Buy [it] for thyself. So he drew off his shoe." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Ruth 4:9", "text": "And Boaz said to the elders, and [to] all the people, Ye [are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that [was] Elimelech's, and all that [was] Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Ruth 4:10", "text": "Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Ruth 4:11", "text": "And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that hath come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Ruth 4:12", "text": "And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Ruth 4:13", "text": "So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in to her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Ruth 4:14", "text": "And the women said to Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Ruth 4:15", "text": "And he shall be to thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thy old age: for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Ruth 4:16", "text": "And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became its nurse." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Ruth 4:17", "text": "And the women, her neighbors, gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he [is] the father of Jesse, the father of David." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Ruth 4:18", "text": "Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Ruth 4:19", "text": "And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Ruth 4:20", "text": "And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Ruth 4:21", "text": "And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Ruth 4:22", "text": "And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 9, "name": "1 Samuel", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 1:1", "text": "Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 1:2", "text": "And he had two wives; the name of the one [was] Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 1:3", "text": "And this man went up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 1:4", "text": "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 1:5", "text": "But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah; but the LORD had rendered her barren." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 1:6", "text": "And her adversary also provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because the LORD had made her barren." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 1:7", "text": "And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 1:8", "text": "Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten sons?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 1:9", "text": "So Hannah rose after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drank. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 1:10", "text": "And she [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept bitterly." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 1:11", "text": "And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give to thy handmaid a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 1:12", "text": "And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli observed her mouth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 1:13", "text": "Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 1:14", "text": "And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 1:15", "text": "And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drank neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 1:16", "text": "Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 1:17", "text": "Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 1:18", "text": "And she said, Let thy handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more [sad]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 1:19", "text": "And they rose in the morning early, and worshiped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 1:20", "text": "Wherefore it came to pass, when the time had arrived, after Hannah had conceived, that she bore a son, and called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 1:21", "text": "And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 1:22", "text": "But Hannah went not up; for she said to her husband, [I will not go up] until the child is weaned, and [then] I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 1:23", "text": "And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seemeth to thee good; tarry until thou hast weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and nursed her son until she weaned him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 1:24", "text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child [was] young." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 1:25", "text": "And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 1:26", "text": "And she said, O my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 1:27", "text": "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 1:28", "text": "Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD there." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 2:1", "text": "And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 2:2", "text": "[There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none besides thee: neither [is there] any rock like our God." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 2:3", "text": "Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 2:4", "text": "The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 2:5", "text": "[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath borne seven; and she that hath many children is become feeble." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 2:6", "text": "The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 2:7", "text": "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 2:8", "text": "He raiseth the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 2:9", "text": "He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 2:10", "text": "The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 2:11", "text": "And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child ministered to the LORD before Eli the priest." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 2:12", "text": "Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 2:13", "text": "And the priest's custom with the people [was], [that], when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 2:14", "text": "And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came thither." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 2:15", "text": "Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of thee, but raw." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 2:16", "text": "And [if] any man said to him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, [No]; but thou shalt give [it to me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 2:17", "text": "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 2:18", "text": "But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child, girded with a linen ephod." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 2:19", "text": "Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought [it] to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband, to offer the yearly sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 2:20", "text": "And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee issue of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went to their own home." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 2:21", "text": "And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 2:22", "text": "Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 2:23", "text": "And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 2:24", "text": "No, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 2:25", "text": "If one man shall sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man shall sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 2:26", "text": "And the child Samuel continued to grow, and was in favor both with the LORD, and also with men." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 2:27", "text": "And there came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear to the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 2:28", "text": "And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel [to be] my priest, to offer upon my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 2:29", "text": "Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 2:30", "text": "Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 2:31", "text": "Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Samuel 2:32", "text": "And thou shalt see an enemy [in my] habitation, in all [the wealth] which [God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Samuel 2:33", "text": "And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume thy eyes, and to grieve thy heart: and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Samuel 2:34", "text": "And this [shall be] a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Samuel 2:35", "text": "And I will raise me up a faithful priest, [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my Anointed for ever." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Samuel 2:36", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thy house, shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priest's offices, that I may eat a piece of bread." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 3:1", "text": "And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; [there was] no open vision." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 3:2", "text": "And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down in his place, and his eyes began to grow dim, [that] he could not see;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 3:3", "text": "And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 3:4", "text": "That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 3:5", "text": "And he ran to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 3:6", "text": "And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 3:7", "text": "Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 3:8", "text": "And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 3:9", "text": "Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he should call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 3:10", "text": "And the LORD came, and stood and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 3:11", "text": "And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 3:12", "text": "In that day I will perform against Eli all [things] which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 3:13", "text": "For I have told him, that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth: because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 3:14", "text": "And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 3:15", "text": "And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD: and Samuel feared to show Eli the vision." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 3:16", "text": "Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 3:17", "text": "And he said, What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath said to thee? I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou shalt hide [any] thing from me, of all the things that he said to thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 3:18", "text": "And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 3:19", "text": "And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 3:20", "text": "And all Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, knew that Samuel [was] established [to be] a prophet of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 3:21", "text": "And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 4:1", "text": "And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 4:2", "text": "And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 4:3", "text": "And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why hath the LORD smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh to us, that when it cometh among us, it may save us from the hand of our enemies." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 4:4", "text": "So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth [between] the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 4:5", "text": "And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 4:6", "text": "And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 4:7", "text": "And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God hath come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 4:8", "text": "Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 4:9", "text": "Be strong, and acquit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye may not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: acquit yourselves like men, and fight." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 4:10", "text": "And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 4:11", "text": "And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 4:12", "text": "And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 4:13", "text": "And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the way-side watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told [it], all the city cried out." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 4:14", "text": "And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What [meaneth] the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 4:15", "text": "Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 4:16", "text": "And the man said to Eli, I [am] he that came out of the army, and I fled to-day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 4:17", "text": "And the messenger answered and said, Israel hath fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 4:18", "text": "And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 4:19", "text": "And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law, and her husband were dead, she bowed herself, and travailed; for her pains came upon her." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 4:20", "text": "And about the time of her death, the women that stood by her said to her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard [it]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 4:21", "text": "And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory hath departed from Israel. (Because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.)" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 4:22", "text": "And she said, The glory hath departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 5:1", "text": "And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer to Ashdod." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 5:2", "text": "When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 5:3", "text": "And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon [had] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 5:4", "text": "And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon had fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD: and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [were] cut off upon the threshhold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 5:5", "text": "Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshhold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 5:6", "text": "But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod, and its borders." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 5:7", "text": "And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is severe upon us, and upon Dagon our god." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 5:8", "text": "They sent therefore, and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about to Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel [thither]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 5:9", "text": "And it was [so], that after they had carried it thither, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 5:10", "text": "Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 5:11", "text": "So they sent and convened all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 5:12", "text": "And the men that died not, were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 6:1", "text": "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 6:2", "text": "And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us with what we shall send it to its place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 6:3", "text": "And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass-offering: then ye will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 6:4", "text": "Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague [was] on you all, and on your lords." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 6:5", "text": "Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory to the God of Israel: it may be he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 6:6", "text": "Why then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 6:7", "text": "Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch-cows on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 6:8", "text": "And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold which ye return to him [for] a trespass-offering, in a coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 6:9", "text": "And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know, that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us; it [was] a chance [that] happened to us." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 6:10", "text": "And the men did so; and took two milch cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 6:11", "text": "And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 6:12", "text": "And the cows took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 6:13", "text": "And [they of] Beth-shemesh [were] reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see [it]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 6:14", "text": "And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they cleaved the wood of the cart, and offered the cows a burnt-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 6:15", "text": "And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that [was] with it, in which [were] the jewels of gold, and put [them] on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 6:16", "text": "And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen [it], they returned to Ekron the same day." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 6:17", "text": "And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass-offering to the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 6:18", "text": "And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fortified cities, and of country villages, even to the great [stone of] Abel, on which they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 6:19", "text": "And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and seventy men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 6:20", "text": "And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 6:21", "text": "And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, [and] bring it up to you." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 7:1", "text": "And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and brought up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 7:2", "text": "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 7:3", "text": "And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return to the LORD with all your hearts, [then] put away the strange gods, and Ashtaroth, from among you, and prepare your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 7:4", "text": "Then the children of Israel put away Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 7:5", "text": "And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 7:6", "text": "And they assembled at Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured [it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and there said, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 7:7", "text": "And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were assembled at Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard [it], they were afraid of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 7:8", "text": "And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry to the LORD our God for us, that he will save us from the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 7:9", "text": "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a burnt-offering wholly to the LORD: and Samuel cried to the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 7:10", "text": "And as Samuel was offering the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 7:11", "text": "And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Beth-car." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 7:12", "text": "Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 7:13", "text": "So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the borders of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 7:14", "text": "And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and the borders of it did Israel deliver from the hands of the Philistines: and there was peace between Israel and the Amorites." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 7:15", "text": "And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 7:16", "text": "And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 7:17", "text": "And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar to the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 8:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 8:2", "text": "Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 8:3", "text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 8:4", "text": "Then all the elders of Israel assembled, and came to Samuel to Ramah," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 8:5", "text": "And said to him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 8:6", "text": "But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us: and Samuel prayed to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 8:7", "text": "And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 8:8", "text": "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them out of Egypt even to this day, by which they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 8:9", "text": "Now therefore hearken to their voice: yet protest solemnly to them, and show them the manner of the king that will reign over them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 8:10", "text": "And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people that asked of him a king." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 8:11", "text": "And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] will run before his chariots." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 8:12", "text": "And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to till his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 8:13", "text": "And he will take your daughters [to be] confectioneries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 8:14", "text": "And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 8:15", "text": "And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 8:16", "text": "And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your most choice young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 8:17", "text": "He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye will be his servants." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 8:18", "text": "And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not hear you in that day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 8:19", "text": "Nevertheless, the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, No; but we will have a king over us;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 8:20", "text": "That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 8:21", "text": "And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 8:22", "text": "And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go ye every man to his city." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 9:1", "text": "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name [was] Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a mighty man of power." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 9:2", "text": "And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 9:3", "text": "And the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 9:4", "text": "And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land of the Benjaminites, but they found [them] not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 9:5", "text": "[And] when they had come to the land of Zuf, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and be anxious for us." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 9:6", "text": "And he said to him, Behold now, [there is] in this city a man of God, and [he is] an honorable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; it may be he can show us our way that we should go." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 9:7", "text": "Then said Saul to his servant, But behold, [if] we go, what shall we bring to the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and [there] is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 9:8", "text": "And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 9:9", "text": "(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spoke, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was formerly called a Seer.)" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 9:10", "text": "Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go: so they went to the city where the man of God [was]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 9:11", "text": "[And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 9:12", "text": "And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he came to-day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the people to-day in the high place:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 9:13", "text": "As soon as ye shall enter the city, ye will straightway find him, before he goeth up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he cometh, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that are invited. Now therefore go up: for about this time ye will find him." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 9:14", "text": "And they went up into the city: [and] when they had come into the city, behold, Samuel came out meeting them, to go up to the high place." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 9:15", "text": "Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 9:16", "text": "To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people from the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 9:17", "text": "And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said to him, Behold the man of whom I spoke to thee! this same shall reign over my people." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 9:18", "text": "Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house [is]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 9:19", "text": "And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up before me to the high place; for ye shall eat with me to-day, and to-morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thy heart." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 9:20", "text": "And as for thy asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's house?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 9:21", "text": "And Saul answered and said, [Am] not I a Benjaminite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then speakest thou so to me?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 9:22", "text": "And Samuel took Saul, and his servant, and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the chief place among them that were invited, who [were] about thirty persons." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 9:23", "text": "And Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said to thee, Set it by thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 9:24", "text": "And the cook took up the shoulder, and [that] which [was] upon it, and set [it] before Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold that which is left! set [it] before thee, [and] eat; for to this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 9:25", "text": "And when they had come down from the high place into the city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the top of the house." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 9:26", "text": "And they rose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Arise, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 9:27", "text": "[And] as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may show thee the word of God." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 10:1", "text": "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] upon his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 10:2", "text": "When thou hast departed from me to-day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulcher in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 10:3", "text": "Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 10:4", "text": "And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves] of bread; which thou shalt receive from their hands." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 10:5", "text": "After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou hast come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will prophesy:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 10:6", "text": "And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 10:7", "text": "And let it be, when these signs have come to thee, [that] thou do as occasion shall serve thee; for God [is] with thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 10:8", "text": "And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to thee, to offer burnt-offerings, [and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and show thee what thou shalt do." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 10:9", "text": "And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 10:10", "text": "And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 10:11", "text": "And it came to pass when all that formerly knew him saw, that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What [is] this [that] hath come to the son of Kish? [Is] Saul also among the prophets?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 10:12", "text": "And one of the same place answered and said, But who [is] their father? Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 10:13", "text": "And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 10:14", "text": "And Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that [they were] no where, we came to Samuel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 10:15", "text": "And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, What Samuel said to you." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 10:16", "text": "And Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he told him not." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 10:17", "text": "And Samuel called the people together to the LORD to Mizpeh;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 10:18", "text": "And said to the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, [and] of them that oppressed you:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 10:19", "text": "And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities, and your tribulations; and ye have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 10:20", "text": "And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 10:21", "text": "When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 10:22", "text": "Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the man would yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 10:23", "text": "And they ran and brought him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 10:24", "text": "And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 10:25", "text": "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote [it] in a book, and laid [it] up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 10:26", "text": "And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 10:27", "text": "But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 11:1", "text": "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 11:2", "text": "And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition] will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 11:3", "text": "And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days respit, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel: and then, if [there is] no man to save us, we will come out to thee." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 11:4", "text": "Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people; and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 11:5", "text": "And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 11:6", "text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 11:7", "text": "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the borders of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 11:8", "text": "And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 11:9", "text": "And they said to the messengers that came, thus shall ye say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, To-morrow by [the time] the sun is hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and showed [it] to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 11:10", "text": "Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To-morrow we will come out to you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good to you." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 11:11", "text": "And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul disposed the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning-watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they who remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 11:12", "text": "And the people said to Samuel, Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 11:13", "text": "And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to-day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 11:14", "text": "Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 11:15", "text": "And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal: and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 12:1", "text": "And Samuel said to all Israel, behold, I have hearkened to your voice in all that ye said to me, and have made a king over you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 12:2", "text": "And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood to this day." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 12:3", "text": "Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed; whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 12:4", "text": "And they said thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught from any man's hand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 12:5", "text": "And he said to them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 12:6", "text": "And Samuel said to the people, [It is] the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 12:7", "text": "Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 12:8", "text": "When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers from Egypt, and made them dwell in this place." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 12:9", "text": "And when they forgot the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 12:10", "text": "And they cried to the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 12:11", "text": "And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelt safe." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 12:12", "text": "And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said to me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 12:13", "text": "Now therefore, behold the king whom ye have chosen, [and] whom ye have desired! and behold, the LORD hath set a king over you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 12:14", "text": "If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye, and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 12:15", "text": "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 12:16", "text": "Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 12:17", "text": "[Is it] not wheat-harvest to-day? I will call to the LORD, and he will send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 12:18", "text": "So Samuel called to the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 12:19", "text": "And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 12:20", "text": "And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 12:21", "text": "And turn ye not aside: for then [would ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 12:22", "text": "For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 12:23", "text": "Moreover as for me, Far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 12:24", "text": "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 12:25", "text": "But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye will be consumed, both ye and your king." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 13:1", "text": "Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 13:2", "text": "Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [of which] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 13:3", "text": "And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that [was] in Geba; and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 13:4", "text": "And all Israel heard it said [that] Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and [that] Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines: and the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 13:5", "text": "And the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 13:6", "text": "When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed) then the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 13:7", "text": "And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 13:8", "text": "And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 13:9", "text": "And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt-offering to me, and peace-offerings. And he offered the burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 13:10", "text": "And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 13:11", "text": "And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines assembled at Michmash;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 13:12", "text": "Therefore said I, the Philistines will now come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD; I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 13:13", "text": "And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 13:14", "text": "But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 13:15", "text": "And Samuel arose, and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with him, about six hundred men." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 13:16", "text": "And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 13:17", "text": "And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way [that leadeth to] Ophrah, to the land of Shual:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 13:18", "text": "And another company turned the way [to] Beth-horon: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim towards the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 13:19", "text": "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: (for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears:)" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 13:20", "text": "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his colter, and his ax, and his mattock." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 13:21", "text": "Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 13:22", "text": "So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 13:23", "text": "And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 14:1", "text": "Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, that [is] on the other side. But he told not his father." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 14:2", "text": "And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 14:3", "text": "And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 14:4", "text": "And between the passages by which Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines, [there was] a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 14:5", "text": "The front of the one [was] situated northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 14:6", "text": "And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 14:7", "text": "And his armor-bearer said to him, Do all that [is] in thy heart: turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 14:8", "text": "Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to [these] men, and we will discover ourselves to them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 14:9", "text": "If they say thus to us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 14:10", "text": "But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand; and this [shall be] a sign to us." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 14:11", "text": "And both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 14:12", "text": "And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor-bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 14:13", "text": "And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armor-bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor-bearer slew after him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 14:14", "text": "And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were a half-acre of land, [which] a yoke [of oxen might plow]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 14:15", "text": "And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 14:16", "text": "And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 14:17", "text": "Then said Saul to the people that [were] with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer [were] not [there]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 14:18", "text": "And Saul said to Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 14:19", "text": "And it came to pass while Saul talked to the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on, and increased: and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw thy hand." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 14:20", "text": "And Saul and all the people that [were] with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great discomfiture." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 14:21", "text": "Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp [from the country] around, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 14:22", "text": "Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, [when] they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 14:23", "text": "So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over to Beth-aven." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 14:24", "text": "And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 14:25", "text": "And all [they of] the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 14:26", "text": "And when the people had come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 14:27", "text": "But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and dipped it in a honey-comb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 14:28", "text": "Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food this day. And the people were faint." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 14:29", "text": "Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 14:30", "text": "How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 14:31", "text": "And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ajalon: and the people were very faint." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Samuel 14:32", "text": "And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people ate [them] with the blood." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Samuel 14:33", "text": "Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone to me this day." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Samuel 14:34", "text": "And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew [them] there." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Samuel 14:35", "text": "And Saul built an altar to the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built to the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Samuel 14:36", "text": "And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatever seemeth good to thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither to God." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Samuel 14:37", "text": "And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Samuel 14:38", "text": "And Saul said, Draw ye near hither all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Samuel 14:39", "text": "For [as] the LORD liveth, who saveth Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among all the people [that] answered him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Samuel 14:40", "text": "Then said he to all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do what seemeth good to thee." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Samuel 14:41", "text": "Therefore Saul said to the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect [lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Samuel 14:42", "text": "And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Samuel 14:43", "text": "Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that [was] in my hand, [and], lo, I must die." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Samuel 14:44", "text": "And Saul answered, God do so, and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Samuel 14:45", "text": "And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? By no means: [as] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Samuel 14:46", "text": "Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Samuel 14:47", "text": "So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he harassed [them]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Samuel 14:48", "text": "And he gathered a host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of them that spoiled them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Samuel 14:49", "text": "Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters [were these]; the name of the first-born Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Samuel 14:50", "text": "And the name of Saul's [wife] was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host [was] Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Samuel 14:51", "text": "And Kish [was] the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner [was] the son of Abiel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Samuel 14:52", "text": "And there was violent war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him to himself." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 15:1", "text": "Samuel also said to Saul, the LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou to the voice of the words of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 15:2", "text": "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 15:3", "text": "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 15:4", "text": "And Saul assembled the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 15:5", "text": "And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 15:6", "text": "And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, withdraw yourselves from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up from Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 15:7", "text": "And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah, [until] thou comest to Shur, that [is] over against Egypt." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 15:8", "text": "And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 15:9", "text": "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 15:10", "text": "Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 15:11", "text": "I repent that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 15:12", "text": "And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a place, and has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 15:13", "text": "And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 15:14", "text": "And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 15:15", "text": "And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 15:16", "text": "Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 15:17", "text": "And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thy own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 15:18", "text": "And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 15:19", "text": "Why then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 15:20", "text": "And Saul said to Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 15:21", "text": "But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD thy God in Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 15:22", "text": "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 15:23", "text": "For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 15:24", "text": "And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 15:25", "text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 15:26", "text": "And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 15:27", "text": "And as Samuel turned about to depart, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 15:28", "text": "And Samuel said to him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, [that is] better than thou." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 15:29", "text": "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 15:30", "text": "Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 15:31", "text": "So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Samuel 15:32", "text": "Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Samuel 15:33", "text": "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Samuel 15:34", "text": "Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Samuel 15:35", "text": "And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 16:1", "text": "And the LORD said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 16:2", "text": "And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul shall hear [it], he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 16:3", "text": "And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint to me [him] whom I name to thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 16:4", "text": "And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 16:5", "text": "And he said, Peaceably: I have come to sacrifice to the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 16:6", "text": "And it came to pass when they had come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed [is] before him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 16:7", "text": "But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the hight of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 16:8", "text": "Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 16:9", "text": "Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 16:10", "text": "Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 16:11", "text": "And Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all [thy] children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him: for we will not sit down till he hath come hither." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 16:12", "text": "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he [was] ruddy, [and] also of a beautiful countenance, and a good appearance. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this [is] he." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 16:13", "text": "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose, and went to Ramah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 16:14", "text": "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 16:15", "text": "And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 16:16", "text": "Let our lord now command thy servants, [who are] before thee, to seek a man [who is] a skillful player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he will play with his hand, and thou wilt be well." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 16:17", "text": "And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring [him] to me." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 16:18", "text": "Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, [that is] skillful in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 16:19", "text": "Wherefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send to me David thy son, who [is] with the sheep." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 16:20", "text": "And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son to Saul." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 16:21", "text": "And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor-bearer." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 16:22", "text": "And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 16:23", "text": "And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 17:1", "text": "Now the Philistines collected their armies to battle, and were assembled at Shochoh, which [belongeth] to Judah, and encamped between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 17:2", "text": "And Saul and the men of Israel were assembled and encamped by the valley of Elah, and [they] set the battle in array against the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 17:3", "text": "And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and [there was] a valley between them." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 17:4", "text": "And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose hight [was] six cubits and a span." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 17:5", "text": "And [he had] a helmet of brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand shekels of brass." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 17:6", "text": "And [he had] greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 17:7", "text": "And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 17:8", "text": "And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 17:9", "text": "If he shall be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I shall prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 17:10", "text": "And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 17:11", "text": "When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 17:12", "text": "Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 17:13", "text": "And the three eldest sons of Jesse went [and] followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle [were] Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 17:14", "text": "And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 17:15", "text": "But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 17:16", "text": "And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 17:17", "text": "And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 17:18", "text": "And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of [their] thousand, and see how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 17:19", "text": "Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were] in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 17:20", "text": "And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 17:21", "text": "For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 17:22", "text": "And David left his furniture in the hand of the keeper of the vessels, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 17:23", "text": "And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, from the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard [them]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 17:24", "text": "And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were exceedingly afraid." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 17:25", "text": "And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that hath come up? surely to defy Israel hath he come: and it shall be, [that] the man who shall kill him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 17:26", "text": "And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 17:27", "text": "And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 17:28", "text": "And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mayest see the battle." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 17:29", "text": "And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a cause?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 17:30", "text": "And he turned from him towards another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 17:31", "text": "And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Samuel 17:32", "text": "And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Samuel 17:33", "text": "And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Samuel 17:34", "text": "And David said to Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Samuel 17:35", "text": "And I went after him, and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught [him] by his beard, and smote him, and slew him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Samuel 17:36", "text": "Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Samuel 17:37", "text": "David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and the LORD be with thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Samuel 17:38", "text": "And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Samuel 17:39", "text": "And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he essayed to go; for he had not proved [it]. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not proved [them]. And David put them off from him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Samuel 17:40", "text": "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Samuel 17:41", "text": "And the Philistine advanced and drew near to David; and the man that bore the shield [went] before him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Samuel 17:42", "text": "And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Samuel 17:43", "text": "And the Philistine said to David, [Am] I a dog, that thou comest to me with staffs? and the Philistine cursed David by his gods." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Samuel 17:44", "text": "And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Samuel 17:45", "text": "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Samuel 17:46", "text": "This day will the LORD deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day to the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Samuel 17:47", "text": "And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Samuel 17:48", "text": "And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Samuel 17:49", "text": "And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and hurled it with his sling, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Samuel 17:50", "text": "So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but [there was] no sword in the hand of David." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Samuel 17:51", "text": "Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Samuel 17:52", "text": "And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Samuel 17:53", "text": "And the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 54, "name": "1 Samuel 17:54", "text": "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 55, "name": "1 Samuel 17:55", "text": "And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner the captain of the host, Abner, whose son [is] this youth? And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 56, "name": "1 Samuel 17:56", "text": "And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling [is]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 57, "name": "1 Samuel 17:57", "text": "And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 58, "name": "1 Samuel 17:58", "text": "And Saul said to him, Whose son [art] thou, [thou] young man? And David answered, I [am] the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 18:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 18:2", "text": "And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 18:3", "text": "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 18:4", "text": "And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was] upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 18:5", "text": "And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 18:6", "text": "And it came to pass as they came, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 18:7", "text": "And the women answered [one another] as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 18:8", "text": "And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 18:9", "text": "And Saul eyed David from that day and forward." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 18:10", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and [there was] a javelin in Saul's hand." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 18:11", "text": "And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David escaped from his presence twice." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 18:12", "text": "And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed from Saul." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 18:13", "text": "Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 18:14", "text": "And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD [was] with him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 18:15", "text": "Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 18:16", "text": "But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 18:17", "text": "And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee for a wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 18:18", "text": "And David said to Saul, Who [am] I? and what [is] my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 18:19", "text": "But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to wife." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 18:20", "text": "And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 18:21", "text": "And Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law, in [the one of] the two." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 18:22", "text": "And Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 18:23", "text": "And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 18:24", "text": "And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 18:25", "text": "And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dower, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 18:26", "text": "And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law: and the days had not expired." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 18:27", "text": "Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 18:28", "text": "And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] with David, and [that] Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 18:29", "text": "And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 18:30", "text": "Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass after they went forth, [that] David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much esteemed." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 19:1", "text": "And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 19:2", "text": "But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now, therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 19:3", "text": "And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou [art], and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 19:4", "text": "And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have been] toward thee very good:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 19:5", "text": "For he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest [it], and didst rejoice: Why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 19:6", "text": "And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 19:7", "text": "And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 19:8", "text": "And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 19:9", "text": "And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with [his] hand." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 19:10", "text": "And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away from Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 19:11", "text": "Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou dost not save thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 19:12", "text": "So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 19:13", "text": "And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goat's [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 19:14", "text": "And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 19:15", "text": "And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David, saying, Bring him to me in the bed, that I may slay him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 19:16", "text": "And when the messengers had come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a pillow of goat's [hair] for his bolster." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 19:17", "text": "And Saul said to Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, that he has escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 19:18", "text": "So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 19:19", "text": "And it was told to Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at Naioth in Ramah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 19:20", "text": "And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 19:21", "text": "And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 19:22", "text": "Then he went also to Ramah, and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David? And [one] said, Behold, [they are] at Naioth in Ramah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 19:23", "text": "And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 19:24", "text": "And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?" } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 20:1", "text": "And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] my iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 20:2", "text": "And he said to him, Far be it from thee; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing, either great or small, but that he will show it to me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it [is] not [so]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 20:3", "text": "And David swore moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he should be grieved: But truly [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a step between me and death." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 20:4", "text": "Then said Jonathan to David, Whatever thy soul desireth, I will even do [it] for thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 20:5", "text": "And David said to Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the new-moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third [day] at evening." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 20:6", "text": "If thy father shall at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked [leave] of me, that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for [there is] a yearly sacrifice there for all the family." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 20:7", "text": "If he shall say thus, [It is] well; thy servant will have peace: but if he shall be very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is determined by him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 20:8", "text": "Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there is in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldst thou bring me to thy father?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 20:9", "text": "And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil is determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 20:10", "text": "Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what [if] thy father shall answer thee roughly?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 20:11", "text": "And Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 20:12", "text": "And Jonathan said to David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to-morrow any time, [or] the third [day], and behold, [if there be] good towards David, and I then send not to thee, and show it thee;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 20:13", "text": "The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it shall please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will show it to thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 20:14", "text": "And thou shalt, not only while yet I live, show me the kindness of the LORD, that I may not die:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 20:15", "text": "But [also] thou shalt not withdraw thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 20:16", "text": "So Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David, [saying], Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 20:17", "text": "And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 20:18", "text": "Then Jonathan said to David, To-morrow [is] the new-moon: and thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 20:19", "text": "And [when] thou hast stayed three days, [then] thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was [in hand], and shalt remain by the stone Ezel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 20:20", "text": "And I will shoot three arrows on the side [of it], as though I shot at a mark." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 20:21", "text": "And behold, I will send a lad, [saying], Go, find the arrows. If I expressly say to the lad, Behold, the arrows [are] on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is] peace to thee, and no hurt; [as] the LORD liveth." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 20:22", "text": "But if I say thus to the young man, Behold, the arrows [are] beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 20:23", "text": "And [as to] the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and me for ever." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 20:24", "text": "So David hid himself in the field: and when the new-moon had come, the king sat down to eat food." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 20:25", "text": "And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, [even] upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 20:26", "text": "Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely he [is] not clean." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 20:27", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the second [day] of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why cometh not the son of Jesse to eat, neither yesterday, nor to-day?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 20:28", "text": "And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked [leave] of me [to go] to Beth-lehem:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 20:29", "text": "And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother he hath commanded me [to be there]: and now if I have found favor in thy eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not to the king's table." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 20:30", "text": "Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious [woman], do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 20:31", "text": "For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Samuel 20:32", "text": "And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall he be slain? what hath he done?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Samuel 20:33", "text": "And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: by which Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to slay David." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Samuel 20:34", "text": "So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Samuel 20:35", "text": "And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Samuel 20:36", "text": "And he said to his lad, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. [And] as the lad ran, he shot an arrow, beyond him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Samuel 20:37", "text": "And when the lad had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [Is] not the arrow beyond thee?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Samuel 20:38", "text": "And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Samuel 20:39", "text": "But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Samuel 20:40", "text": "And Jonathan gave his arms to his lad, and said to him, Go, carry [them] to the city." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Samuel 20:41", "text": "[And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a place] towards the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Samuel 20:42", "text": "And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 21:1", "text": "Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said to him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 21:2", "text": "And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said to me, Let no man know any thing of the business about which I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 21:3", "text": "Now therefore what is under thy hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in my hand, or what there is present." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 21:4", "text": "And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 21:5", "text": "And David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a manner common, yes, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 21:6", "text": "So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was no bread there but the show-bread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 21:7", "text": "Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 21:8", "text": "And David said to Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand a spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 21:9", "text": "And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]: for [there is] no other save that here. And David said, [There is] none like that; give it to me." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 21:10", "text": "And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 21:11", "text": "And the servants of Achish said to him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 21:12", "text": "And David laid up these words in his heart, and was greatly afraid of Achish the king of Gath." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 21:13", "text": "And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 21:14", "text": "Then said Achish to his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: why [then] have ye brought him to me?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 21:15", "text": "Have I need of mad-men, that ye have brought this [man] to play the mad-man in my presence? shall this [man] come into my house?" } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 22:1", "text": "David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they went down thither to him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 22:2", "text": "And every one [that was] in distress, and every one that [was] in debt, and every one [that was] discontented, resorted to him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 22:3", "text": "And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 22:4", "text": "And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 22:5", "text": "And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and come into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 22:6", "text": "When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were] standing about him;)" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 22:7", "text": "Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjaminites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 22:8", "text": "That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or showeth to me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 22:9", "text": "Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 22:10", "text": "And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 22:11", "text": "Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that [were] in Nob: and they came all of them to the king." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 22:12", "text": "And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I [am], my lord." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 22:13", "text": "And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 22:14", "text": "Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who [is so] faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honorable in thy house?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 22:15", "text": "Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me. Let not the king impute [any] thing to his servant, [nor] to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 22:16", "text": "And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 22:17", "text": "And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also [is] with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 22:18", "text": "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day eighty and five persons that wore a linen ephod." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 22:19", "text": "And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 22:20", "text": "And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 22:21", "text": "And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 22:22", "text": "And David said to Abiathar, I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite [was] there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned [the death] of all the persons of thy father's house." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 22:23", "text": "Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 23:1", "text": "Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 23:2", "text": "Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said to David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 23:3", "text": "And David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 23:4", "text": "Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 23:5", "text": "So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 23:6", "text": "And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in his hand." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 23:7", "text": "And it was told to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 23:8", "text": "And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 23:9", "text": "And David knew that Saul secretly plotted mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 23:10", "text": "Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 23:11", "text": "Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 23:12", "text": "Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver [thee] up." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 23:13", "text": "Then David and his men [who were] about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah: and he forbore to go forth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 23:14", "text": "And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 23:15", "text": "And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 23:16", "text": "And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 23:17", "text": "And he said to him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou wilt be king over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 23:18", "text": "And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 23:19", "text": "Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 23:20", "text": "Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king's hand." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 23:21", "text": "And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 23:22", "text": "Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know, and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is told to me [that] he dealeth very subtilly." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 23:23", "text": "See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 23:24", "text": "And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 23:25", "text": "Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 23:26", "text": "And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men around to take them." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 23:27", "text": "But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 23:28", "text": "Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammah-lekoth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 23:29", "text": "Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 24:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told to him, saying, Behold, David [is] in the wilderness of En-gedi." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 24:2", "text": "Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 24:3", "text": "And he came to the sheep-cotes by the way, where [was] a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 24:4", "text": "And the men of David said to him, Behold the day of which the LORD said to thee, Behold, I will deliver thy enemy into thy hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good to thee. Then David arose, and privately cut off the skirt of Saul's robe." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 24:5", "text": "And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 24:6", "text": "And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he [is] the anointed of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 24:7", "text": "So David restrained his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose out of the cave, and went on [his] way." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 24:8", "text": "David also rose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 24:9", "text": "And David said to Saul, Why hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 24:10", "text": "Behold, this day thy eyes have seen how the LORD hath delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and [some] bade [me] kill thee: but [my eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he [is] the LORD'S anointed." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 24:11", "text": "Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that [there is] neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 24:12", "text": "The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 24:13", "text": "As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 24:14", "text": "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 24:15", "text": "The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 24:16", "text": "And it came to pass when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 24:17", "text": "And he said to David, thou [art] more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded thee with evil." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 24:18", "text": "And thou hast showed this day how thou hast dealt with me; forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thy hand, thou didst not kill me." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 24:19", "text": "For if a man findeth his enemy, will he let him go away well? wherefore the LORD reward thee with good, for what thou hast done to me this day." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 24:20", "text": "And now, behold, I know well that thou wilt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in thy hand." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 24:21", "text": "Swear now therefore to me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 24:22", "text": "And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men repaired to the hold." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 25:1", "text": "And Samuel died; and all the Israelites assembled, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 25:2", "text": "And [there] was a man in Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 25:3", "text": "Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 25:4", "text": "And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 25:5", "text": "And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 25:6", "text": "And thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in prosperity], Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thy house, and peace [be] to all that thou hast." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 25:7", "text": "And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds who were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there aught missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 25:8", "text": "Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore let the young men find favor in thy eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatever cometh to thy hand, to thy servants, and to thy son David." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 25:9", "text": "And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal in the name of David, according to all these words, and ceased." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 25:10", "text": "And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there are many servants in these days that break away every man from his master." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 25:11", "text": "Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] to men, whom I know not whence they [are]?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 25:12", "text": "So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all these sayings." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 25:13", "text": "And David said to his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the goods." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 25:14", "text": "But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 25:15", "text": "But the men [were] very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 25:16", "text": "They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 25:17", "text": "Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do: for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 25:18", "text": "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 25:19", "text": "And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 25:20", "text": "And it was [so], [as] she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and behold, David and his men came down over against her; and she met them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 25:21", "text": "(Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [man] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] to him: and he hath requited me evil for good." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 25:22", "text": "So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any male person.)" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 25:23", "text": "And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 25:24", "text": "And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be]: and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thy audience, and hear the words of thy handmaid." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 25:25", "text": "Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, [even] Nabal; for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 25:26", "text": "Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withheld thee from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thy own hand, now let thy enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 25:27", "text": "And now this blessing which thy handmaid hath brought to my lord, let it even be given to the young men that follow my lord." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 25:28", "text": "I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thy handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 25:29", "text": "Yet a man hath risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thy enemies, them shall he sling out, [as from] the middle of a sling." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 25:30", "text": "And it will come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 25:31", "text": "That this will be no grief to thee, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Samuel 25:32", "text": "And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Samuel 25:33", "text": "And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, who hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Samuel 25:34", "text": "For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, who hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male person." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Samuel 25:35", "text": "So David received from her hand [that] which she had brought him, and said to her, Return in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Samuel 25:36", "text": "And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Samuel 25:37", "text": "But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine had left Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became [as] a stone." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Samuel 25:38", "text": "And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Samuel 25:39", "text": "And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Samuel 25:40", "text": "And when the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to him for a wife." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Samuel 25:41", "text": "And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the earth, and said, Behold, [let] thy handmaid [be] a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Samuel 25:42", "text": "And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Samuel 25:43", "text": "David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Samuel 25:44", "text": "But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who [was] of Gallim." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 26:1", "text": "And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which is] before Jeshimon?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 26:2", "text": "Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 26:3", "text": "And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 26:4", "text": "David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had come in very deed." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 26:5", "text": "And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched around him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 26:6", "text": "Then answered David, and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 26:7", "text": "So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay about him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 26:8", "text": "Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thy enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 26:9", "text": "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed and be guiltless?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 26:10", "text": "David said furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD will smite him; or his day will come to die; or he will descend into battle and perish." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 26:11", "text": "The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that [is] at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 26:12", "text": "So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they departed, and no man saw [it], nor knew [it], neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep: because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 26:13", "text": "Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off; a great space [being] between them:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 26:14", "text": "And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who [art] thou [that] criest to the king?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 26:15", "text": "And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came in one of the people to destroy the king thy lord." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 26:16", "text": "This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, [ye are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear [is], and the cruse of water that [was] at his bolster." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 26:17", "text": "And Saul knew David's voice, and said, [Is] this thy voice, my son David? and David said, [It is] my voice, my lord, O king." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 26:18", "text": "And he said, Why doth my lord thus pursue his servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in my hand?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 26:19", "text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they are] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 26:20", "text": "Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel hath come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 26:21", "text": "Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thy eyes this day: behold I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 26:22", "text": "And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and take it." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 26:23", "text": "The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to-day, but I would not stretch forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 26:24", "text": "And behold, as thy life was precious this day in my eyes, so let my life be precious in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 26:25", "text": "Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 27:1", "text": "And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel; so shall I escape from his hand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 27:2", "text": "And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 27:3", "text": "And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess Nabal's wife." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 27:4", "text": "And it was told to Saul that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 27:5", "text": "And David said to Achish, If I have now found grace in thy eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 27:6", "text": "Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth to the kings of Judah to this day." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 27:7", "text": "And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 27:8", "text": "And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even to the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 27:9", "text": "And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 27:10", "text": "And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to-day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 27:11", "text": "And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest they should inform against us, saying, So did David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 27:12", "text": "And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 28:1", "text": "And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines collected their armies for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said to David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 28:2", "text": "And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of my head for ever." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 28:3", "text": "Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 28:4", "text": "And the Philistines assembled, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul collected all Israel, and they encamped in Gilboa." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 28:5", "text": "And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 28:6", "text": "And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 28:7", "text": "Then said Saul to his servants, seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, [there is] a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 28:8", "text": "And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring up for me whom I shall name to thee." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 28:9", "text": "And the woman said to him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: Why then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 28:10", "text": "And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 28:11", "text": "Then said the woman, whom shall I bring up to thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 28:12", "text": "And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou [art] Saul." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 28:13", "text": "And the king said to her be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said to Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 28:14", "text": "And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it [was] Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the ground, and bowed himself." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 28:15", "text": "And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am grievously distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God hath departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known to me what I shall do." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 28:16", "text": "Then said Samuel, Why then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD hath departed from thee, and hath become thy enemy?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 28:17", "text": "And the LORD hath done to him, as he spoke by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thy hand, and given it to thy neighbor, [even] to David:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 28:18", "text": "Because thou didst not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing to thee this day." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 28:19", "text": "Moreover, the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to-morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 28:20", "text": "Then Saul fell immediately all along on the earth, and was exceedingly afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 28:21", "text": "And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was greatly troubled, and said to him, Behold, thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened to thy words, which thou didst speak" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 28:22", "text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also to the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 28:23", "text": "But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 28:24", "text": "And the woman had a fat calf in the house: and she hasted and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded [it], and baked unleavened bread of it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 28:25", "text": "And she brought [it] before Saul, and before his servants; and they ate. Then they arose and went away that night." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 29:1", "text": "Now the Philistines collected all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 29:2", "text": "And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 29:3", "text": "Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, [Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell [to me] to this day?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 29:4", "text": "And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make this man return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he should be an adversary to us: for with what would he reconcile himself to his master? [would it] not [be] with the heads of these men?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 29:5", "text": "[Is] not this David, of whom they sung one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 29:6", "text": "Then Achish called David, and said to him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee from the day of thy coming to me to this day: nevertheless the lords favor thee not." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 29:7", "text": "Therefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 29:8", "text": "And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant, so long as I have been with thee to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 29:9", "text": "And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou [art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 29:10", "text": "Wherefore now rise early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye shall have risen early in the morning, and have light, depart." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 29:11", "text": "So David and his men rose early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 30:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 30:2", "text": "And had taken the women captives that [were] in it, they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 30:3", "text": "So David and his men came to the city, and behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 30:4", "text": "Then David and the people that [were] with him, lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 30:5", "text": "And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 30:6", "text": "And David was greatly distressed: for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons, and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 30:7", "text": "And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 30:8", "text": "And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover [all]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 30:9", "text": "So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were] with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind remained." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 30:10", "text": "But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 30:11", "text": "And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they made him drink water;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 30:12", "text": "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drank [any] water, three days and three nights." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 30:13", "text": "And David said to him, To whom [belongest] thou? and whence [art] thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Samuel 30:14", "text": "We made an invasion [upon] the south of the Cherethites, and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Samuel 30:15", "text": "And David said to him, Canst thou conduct me down to this company? And he said, Swear to me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will lead thee down to this company." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Samuel 30:16", "text": "And when he had conducted him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines, and from the land of Judah." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Samuel 30:17", "text": "And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Samuel 30:18", "text": "And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Samuel 30:19", "text": "And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had taken to them: David recovered all." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Samuel 30:20", "text": "And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's spoil." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Samuel 30:21", "text": "And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Samuel 30:22", "text": "Then answered all the wicked men, and [men] of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [aught] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away, and depart." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Samuel 30:23", "text": "Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Samuel 30:24", "text": "For who will hearken to you in this matter? but as his part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be] that tarrieth by the goods: they shall part alike." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Samuel 30:25", "text": "And it was [so] from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Samuel 30:26", "text": "And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you, of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Samuel 30:27", "text": "To [them] who [were] in Beth-el, and to [them] who [were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] who [were] in Jattir," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Samuel 30:28", "text": "And to [them] who [were] in Aroer, and to [them] who [were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] who [were] in Eshtemoa," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Samuel 30:29", "text": "And to [them] who [were] in Rachal, and to [them] who [were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] who [were] in the cities of the Kenites," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Samuel 30:30", "text": "And to [them] who [were] in Hormah, and to [them] who [were] in Chor-ashan, and to [them] who [were] in Athach," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 30:31", "text": "And to [them] who [were] in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were accustomed to resort." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "1 Samuel 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Samuel 31:1", "text": "Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Samuel 31:2", "text": "And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Samuel 31:3", "text": "And the battle was severe against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was severely wounded by the archers." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Samuel 31:4", "text": "Then said Saul to his armor-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised should come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was exceedingly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Samuel 31:5", "text": "And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Samuel 31:6", "text": "So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, that same day together." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Samuel 31:7", "text": "And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side of Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Samuel 31:8", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Samuel 31:9", "text": "And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Samuel 31:10", "text": "And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Samuel 31:11", "text": "And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Samuel 31:12", "text": "All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Samuel 31:13", "text": "And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 10, "name": "2 Samuel", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 1:1", "text": "Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 1:2", "text": "It came even to pass on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 1:3", "text": "And David said to him, From whence comest thou? And he said to him, Out of the camp of Israel have I escaped." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 1:4", "text": "And David said to him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen, and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 1:5", "text": "And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 1:6", "text": "And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 1:7", "text": "And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, Here [am] I." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 1:8", "text": "And he said to me, Who [art] thou? And I answered him, I [am] an Amalekite." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 1:9", "text": "He said to me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 1:10", "text": "So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he had fallen: and I took the crown that [was] upon his head, and the bracelet that [was] on his arm, and have brought them hither to my lord." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 1:11", "text": "Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that [were] with him:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 1:12", "text": "And they mourned and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 1:13", "text": "And David said to the young man that told him, Whence [art] thou? And he answered, I [am] the son of a stranger, an Amalekite." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 1:14", "text": "And David said to him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 1:15", "text": "And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, [and] fall upon him. And he smote him that he died." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 1:16", "text": "And David said to him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 1:17", "text": "And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 1:18", "text": "(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah [the use of] the bow: behold, [it is] written in the book of Jasher.)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 1:19", "text": "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 1:20", "text": "Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it] not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 1:21", "text": "Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, [as though he had] not [been] anointed with oil." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 1:22", "text": "From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 1:23", "text": "Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 1:24", "text": "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with [other] delights, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 1:25", "text": "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan [thou wast] slain in thy high places." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 1:26", "text": "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been to me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 1:27", "text": "How have the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 2:1", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said to him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, To Hebron." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 2:2", "text": "So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, Nabal's wife the Carmelite." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 2:3", "text": "And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 2:4", "text": "And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men of Jabesh-gilead [were they] that buried Saul." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 2:5", "text": "And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD, that ye have shown this kindness to your lord, [even] to Saul, and have buried him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 2:6", "text": "And now the LORD show kindness and truth to you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 2:7", "text": "Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 2:8", "text": "But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 2:9", "text": "And he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 2:10", "text": "Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, [was] forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years: but the house of Judah followed David." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 2:11", "text": "And the time that David was king in Hebron, over the house of Judah, was seven years and six months." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 2:12", "text": "And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 2:13", "text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 2:14", "text": "And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 2:15", "text": "Then there arose, and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, who [pertained] to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 2:16", "text": "And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side: so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 2:17", "text": "And there was a very severe battle that day; and Abner was defeated, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 2:18", "text": "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 2:19", "text": "And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 2:20", "text": "Then Abner looked behind him, and said, [Art] thou Asahel? And he answered, I [am]." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 2:21", "text": "And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay hold on one of the young men, and take to thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 2:22", "text": "And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: Why should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 2:23", "text": "But he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth [rib], that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died, stood still." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 2:24", "text": "Joab also, and Abishai pursued Abner: and the sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that [lieth] before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 2:25", "text": "And the children of Benjamin assembled themselves after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a hill." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 2:26", "text": "Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou wilt bid the people return from following their brethren?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 2:27", "text": "And Joab said, [As] God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 2:28", "text": "So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, neither fought they any more." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 2:29", "text": "And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 2:30", "text": "And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had assembled all the people, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men, and Asahel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 2:31", "text": "But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred and sixty men died." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 2:32", "text": "And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulcher of his father, which [was in] Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 3:1", "text": "Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul became weaker and weaker." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 3:2", "text": "And to David were sons born in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 3:3", "text": "And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 3:4", "text": "And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 3:5", "text": "And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 3:6", "text": "And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 3:7", "text": "And Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Why hast thou gone in to my father's concubine?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 3:8", "text": "Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, [Am] I a dog's head, who against Judah do show kindness this day to the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to-day with a fault concerning this woman?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 3:9", "text": "So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 3:10", "text": "To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 3:11", "text": "And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 3:12", "text": "And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose [is] the land? saying [also], Make thy league with me, and behold, my hand [shall be] with thee, to bring about all Israel to thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 3:13", "text": "And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou shalt first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 3:14", "text": "And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver to [me] my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 3:15", "text": "And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband, [even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 3:16", "text": "And her husband went with her, weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return. And he returned." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 3:17", "text": "And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 3:18", "text": "Now then do [it]: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 3:19", "text": "And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 3:20", "text": "So Abner came to David in Hebron, and twenty men with him: and David made Abner and the men that [were] with him, a feast." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 3:21", "text": "And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thy heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 3:22", "text": "And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from [pursuing] a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner [was] not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 3:23", "text": "When Joab and all the host that [was] with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he hath gone in peace." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 3:24", "text": "Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came to thee; why [is] it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 3:25", "text": "Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going-out and thy coming-in, and to know all that thou doest." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 3:26", "text": "And when Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew [it] not." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 3:27", "text": "And when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth [rib] that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 3:28", "text": "And afterward when David heard [it], he said, I and my kingdom [are] guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 3:29", "text": "Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 3:30", "text": "So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 3:31", "text": "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 3:32", "text": "And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 3:33", "text": "And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Samuel 3:34", "text": "Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Samuel 3:35", "text": "And when all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was yet day, David swore, saying, So do God to me, and more also, If I taste bread or aught else, till the sun is down." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Samuel 3:36", "text": "And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as what ever the king did pleased all the people." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Samuel 3:37", "text": "For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Samuel 3:38", "text": "And the king said to his servants, Know ye not that there hath a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Samuel 3:39", "text": "And I [am] this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah [are] too hard for me. The LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 4:1", "text": "And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 4:2", "text": "And Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (For Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 4:3", "text": "And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.)" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 4:4", "text": "And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet: he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name [was] Mephibosheth." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 4:5", "text": "And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 4:6", "text": "And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 4:7", "text": "For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went away through the plain all night." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 4:8", "text": "And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thy enemy, who sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and of his seed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 4:9", "text": "And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, [As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 4:10", "text": "When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, (thinking to have brought good tidings,) I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 4:11", "text": "How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 4:12", "text": "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged [them] over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried [it] in the sepulcher of Abner in Hebron." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 5:1", "text": "Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 5:2", "text": "Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 5:3", "text": "So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 5:4", "text": "David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 5:5", "text": "In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 5:6", "text": "And the king and his men went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: who spoke to David, saying, Except thou shalt take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 5:7", "text": "Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of David." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 5:8", "text": "And David said on that day, Whoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, [that are] hated by David's soul, [he shall be chief and captain]: Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 5:9", "text": "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built around from Millo and inward." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 5:10", "text": "And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts [was] with him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 5:11", "text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David a house." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 5:12", "text": "And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 5:13", "text": "And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 5:14", "text": "And these [are] the names of those that were born to him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 5:15", "text": "Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 5:16", "text": "And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 5:17", "text": "But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the hold." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 5:18", "text": "The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 5:19", "text": "And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the LORD said to David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 5:20", "text": "And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon my enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 5:21", "text": "And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 5:22", "text": "And the Philistines came yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 5:23", "text": "And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up: [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 5:24", "text": "And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 5:25", "text": "And David did so as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou comest to Gazer." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 6:1", "text": "Again, David assembled all [the] chosen [men] of Israel, thirty thousand," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 6:2", "text": "And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubim." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 6:3", "text": "And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that [was] in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio the sons of Abinadab drove the new cart." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 6:4", "text": "And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which [was] at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 6:5", "text": "And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 6:6", "text": "And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it: for the oxen shook [it]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 6:7", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 6:8", "text": "And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 6:9", "text": "And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 6:10", "text": "So David would not remove the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 6:11", "text": "And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 6:12", "text": "And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that [pertaineth] to him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 6:13", "text": "And it was [so], that when they that bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 6:14", "text": "And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen ephod." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 6:15", "text": "So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 6:16", "text": "And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 6:17", "text": "And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 6:18", "text": "And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 6:19", "text": "And he dealt among all the people, [even] among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece [of flesh], and a flagon [of wine]. So all the people departed every one to his house." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 6:20", "text": "Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 6:21", "text": "And David said to Michal, [It was] before the LORD, who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 6:22", "text": "And I shall yet be more vile than thus, and shall be base in my own sight: and by the maid-servants which thou hast spoken of, by them shall I be had in honor." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 6:23", "text": "Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until the day of her death." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 7:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest around from all his enemies;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 7:2", "text": "That the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 7:3", "text": "And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in thy heart: for the LORD [is] with thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 7:4", "text": "And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 7:5", "text": "Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 7:6", "text": "Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent, and in a tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 7:7", "text": "In all [the places] in which I have walked with all the children of Israel have I spoken a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why do ye not build me a house of cedar?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 7:8", "text": "Now therefore so shalt thou say to my servant David, thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheep-cote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 7:9", "text": "And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thy enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like to the name of the great [men] that [are] in the earth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 7:10", "text": "Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as formerly." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 7:11", "text": "And as since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thy enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee a house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 7:12", "text": "And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 7:13", "text": "He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 7:14", "text": "I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he shall commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 7:15", "text": "But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 7:16", "text": "And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 7:17", "text": "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 7:18", "text": "Then king David went in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 7:19", "text": "And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 7:20", "text": "And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 7:21", "text": "For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 7:22", "text": "Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 7:23", "text": "And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 7:24", "text": "For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people to thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 7:25", "text": "And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish [it] for ever, and do as thou hast said." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 7:26", "text": "And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 7:27", "text": "For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 7:28", "text": "And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this goodness to thy servant:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 7:29", "text": "Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken [it]: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 8:1", "text": "And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 8:2", "text": "And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines he measured to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And [so] the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 8:3", "text": "David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 8:4", "text": "And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot-[horses], but reserved of them [for] a hundred chariots." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 8:5", "text": "And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 8:6", "text": "Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, [and] brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 8:7", "text": "And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 8:8", "text": "And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took very much brass." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 8:9", "text": "When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 8:10", "text": "Then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: (for Hadadezer had wars with Toi) and [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 8:11", "text": "Which also king David dedicated to the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 8:12", "text": "Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 8:13", "text": "And David made [him] a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of Salt, [being] eighteen thousand [men]." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 8:14", "text": "And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 8:15", "text": "And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice to all his people." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 8:16", "text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 8:17", "text": "And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the priests: and Seraiah [was] the scribe;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 8:18", "text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 9:1", "text": "And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 9:2", "text": "And [there was] of the house of Saul a servant whose name [was] Ziba. And when they had called him to David, the king said to him, [Art] thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant [is he]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 9:3", "text": "And the king said, [Is] there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him? and Ziba said to the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, [who is] lame in [his] feet." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 9:4", "text": "And the king said to him, Where [is] he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he [is] in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 9:5", "text": "Then king David sent, and brought him from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 9:6", "text": "Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 9:7", "text": "And David said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show thee kindness for the sake of Jonathan thy father, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 9:8", "text": "And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I [am]?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 9:9", "text": "Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, I have given to thy master's son all that pertained to Saul, and to all his house." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 9:10", "text": "Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread always at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 9:11", "text": "Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 9:12", "text": "And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name [was] Micah. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba [were] servants to Mephibosheth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 9:13", "text": "So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he ate continually at the king's table; and was lame in both his feet." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 10:1", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 10:2", "text": "Then said David, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 10:3", "text": "And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comforters to thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants to thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 10:4", "text": "Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, [even] to their buttocks, and sent them away." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 10:5", "text": "When they told [it] to David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards are grown, and [then] return." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 10:6", "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 10:7", "text": "And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 10:8", "text": "And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish-tob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 10:9", "text": "When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he selected of all the choice [men] of Israel, and put [them] in array against the Syrians:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 10:10", "text": "And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put [them] in array against the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 10:11", "text": "And he said, If the Syrians shall be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon shall be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 10:12", "text": "Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 10:13", "text": "And Joab and the people that [were] with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 10:14", "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 10:15", "text": "And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they assembled themselves." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 10:16", "text": "And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 10:17", "text": "And when it was told David, he assembled all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 10:18", "text": "And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 10:19", "text": "And when all the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 11:1", "text": "And it came to pass, after the year had expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and destroyed Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 11:2", "text": "And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 11:3", "text": "And David sent and inquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 11:4", "text": "And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 11:5", "text": "And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 11:6", "text": "And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 11:7", "text": "And when Uriah had come to him, David inquired [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 11:8", "text": "And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess [of meat] from the king." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 11:9", "text": "But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 11:10", "text": "And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his house, David said to Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down to thy house?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 11:11", "text": "And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 11:12", "text": "And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 11:13", "text": "And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 11:14", "text": "And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 11:15", "text": "And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the front of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 11:16", "text": "And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew that valiant men [were]." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 11:17", "text": "And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 11:18", "text": "Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 11:19", "text": "And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war to the king," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 11:20", "text": "And if the king's wrath shall rise, and he shall say to thee, Why approached ye so nigh to the city for the fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 11:21", "text": "Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 11:22", "text": "So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 11:23", "text": "And the messenger said to David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were upon them even to the entrance of the gate." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 11:24", "text": "And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants: and [some] of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 11:25", "text": "Then David said to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 11:26", "text": "And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 11:27", "text": "And when the mourning was past, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 12:1", "text": "And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 12:2", "text": "The rich [man] had very numerous flocks and herds:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 12:3", "text": "But the poor [man] had nothing save one little ewe-lamb, which he had bought and nourished: and it grew up together with him, and with his children: it fed of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 12:4", "text": "And there came a traveler to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the way-faring man that had come to him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that had come to him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 12:5", "text": "And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, [As] the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this [thing] shall surely die:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 12:6", "text": "And he shall restore the lamb four-fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 12:7", "text": "And Nathan said to David, Thou [art] the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 12:8", "text": "And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover have given to thee such and such things." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 12:9", "text": "Why hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 12:10", "text": "Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 12:11", "text": "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes, and give [them] to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 12:12", "text": "For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 12:13", "text": "And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said to David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 12:14", "text": "But, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also [that is] born to thee shall surely die." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 12:15", "text": "And Nathan departed to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 12:16", "text": "David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 12:17", "text": "And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 12:18", "text": "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice: how will he then be grieved, if we tell him that the child is dead?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 12:19", "text": "But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 12:20", "text": "Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 12:21", "text": "Then said his servants to him, What thing [is] this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, [while it was] alive; but after the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 12:22", "text": "And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted, and wept: for I said, Who can tell [whether] GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 12:23", "text": "But now he is dead, Why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 12:24", "text": "And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 12:25", "text": "And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 12:26", "text": "And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 12:27", "text": "And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 12:28", "text": "Now therefore collect the rest of the people, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 12:29", "text": "And David collected all the people, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 12:30", "text": "And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight of which [was] a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was [set] on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 12:31", "text": "And he brought forth the people that [were] in it, and put [them] under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned to Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 13:1", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 13:2", "text": "And Amnon was so afflicted, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she [was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 13:3", "text": "But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was] Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a very subtil man." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 13:4", "text": "And he said to him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king's son, pining from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 13:5", "text": "And Jonadab said to him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say to him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me food, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 13:6", "text": "So Amnon lay down and made himself sick: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make for me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 13:7", "text": "Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress meat for him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 13:8", "text": "So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded [it], and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 13:9", "text": "And she took a pan, and poured [them] out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 13:10", "text": "And Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from thy hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought [them] into the chamber to Amnon her brother." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 13:11", "text": "And when she had brought [them] to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 13:12", "text": "And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 13:13", "text": "And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou wilt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 13:14", "text": "Howbeit, he would not hearken to her voice: but being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 13:15", "text": "Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred with which he hated her [was] greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 13:16", "text": "And she said to him, [There is] no cause: this evil in sending me away [is] greater than the other that thou didst to me. But he would not hearken to her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 13:17", "text": "Then he called his servant that ministered to him, and said, Put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door after her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 13:18", "text": "And [she had] a garment of divers colors upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters [that were] virgins appareled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 13:19", "text": "And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 13:20", "text": "And Absalom her brother said to her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he [is] thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 13:21", "text": "But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 13:22", "text": "And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 13:23", "text": "And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 13:24", "text": "And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheep-shearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 13:25", "text": "And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable to thee. And he pressed him: yet he would not go, but blessed him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 13:26", "text": "Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with thee?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 13:27", "text": "But Absalom pressed him that he should let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 13:28", "text": "Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have I not commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 13:29", "text": "And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man rode upon his mule, and fled." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 13:30", "text": "And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that information came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 13:31", "text": "Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 13:32", "text": "And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose [that] they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 13:33", "text": "Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Samuel 13:34", "text": "But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, there came many people by the way of the hillside behind him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Samuel 13:35", "text": "And Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons come; as thy servant said, so it is." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Samuel 13:36", "text": "And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Samuel 13:37", "text": "But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Samuel 13:38", "text": "So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Samuel 13:39", "text": "And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 14:1", "text": "Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart [was] towards Absalom." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 14:2", "text": "And Joab sent to Tekoah, and brought thence a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 14:3", "text": "And come to the king, and speak in this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 14:4", "text": "And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 14:5", "text": "And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I [am] indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 14:6", "text": "And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and [there was] none to part them, but the one smote the other and slew him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 14:7", "text": "And behold, the whole family hath risen against thy handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they will quench my coal which is left, and will not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 14:8", "text": "And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 14:9", "text": "And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity [be] on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne [be] guiltless." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 14:10", "text": "And the king said, Whoever saith [aught] to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 14:11", "text": "Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 14:12", "text": "Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak [one] word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 14:13", "text": "And the woman said, Why then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty, in that the king doth not bring home again his banished." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 14:14", "text": "For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 14:15", "text": "Now therefore that I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, [it is] because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 14:16", "text": "For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid from the hand of the man [that would] destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 14:17", "text": "Then thy handmaid said, The word of my lord the king, will now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 14:18", "text": "Then the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 14:19", "text": "And the king said, [Is not] the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 14:20", "text": "To bring about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all [things] that [are] on the earth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 14:21", "text": "And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 14:22", "text": "And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To-day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 14:23", "text": "So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 14:24", "text": "And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 14:25", "text": "But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 14:26", "text": "And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 14:27", "text": "And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name [was] Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 14:28", "text": "So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 14:29", "text": "Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, that he might send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 14:30", "text": "Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 14:31", "text": "Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom, to [his] house, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my field on fire?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 14:32", "text": "And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it [had been] good for me [had I been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 14:33", "text": "So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 15:1", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 15:2", "text": "And Absalom rose early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city [art] thou? And he said, Thy servant [is] one of the tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 15:3", "text": "And Absalom said to him, See, thy matters [are] good and right; but [there is] no man [deputed] by the king to hear thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 15:4", "text": "Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 15:5", "text": "And it was [so], that when any man came nigh [to him] to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 15:6", "text": "And in this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 15:7", "text": "And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 15:8", "text": "For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 15:9", "text": "And the king said to him, Go in peace, So he arose, and went to Hebron." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 15:10", "text": "But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 15:11", "text": "And with Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem, [that were] called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 15:12", "text": "And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, [even] from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 15:13", "text": "And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 15:14", "text": "And David said to all his servants that [were] with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not [else] escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he should overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 15:15", "text": "And the king's servants said to the king, Behold, thy servants [are ready to do] whatever my lord the king shall appoint." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 15:16", "text": "And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women [who were] concubines to keep the house." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 15:17", "text": "And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 15:18", "text": "And all his servants passed on by his side; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 15:19", "text": "Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king; for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 15:20", "text": "Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may; return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth [be] with thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 15:21", "text": "And Ittai answered the king, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 15:22", "text": "And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that [were] with him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 15:23", "text": "And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 15:24", "text": "And lo, Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 15:25", "text": "And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and show me [both] it, and his habitation:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 15:26", "text": "But if he shall thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 15:27", "text": "The king said also to Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 15:28", "text": "See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until word shall come from you to certify me." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 15:29", "text": "Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 15:30", "text": "And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [were] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 15:31", "text": "And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 15:32", "text": "And it came to pass, that [when] David had come to the top [of the mount], where he worshiped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 15:33", "text": "To whom David said, If thou shalt pass on with me, then thou wilt be a burden to me:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Samuel 15:34", "text": "But if thou shalt return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father's servant hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Samuel 15:35", "text": "And [hast thou] not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, [that] whatever thing thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell [it] to Zadok and Abiathar the priests." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Samuel 15:36", "text": "Behold, [they have] there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's [son], and Jonathan Abiathar's [son]; and by them ye shall send to me every thing that ye can hear." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Samuel 15:37", "text": "So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 16:1", "text": "And when David was a little past the top [of the hill], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 16:2", "text": "And the king said to Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses [are] for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 16:3", "text": "And the king said, And where [is] thy master's son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To-day shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 16:4", "text": "Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine [are] all that [pertained] to Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee [that] I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 16:5", "text": "And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name [was] Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 16:6", "text": "And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men [were] on his right hand and on his left." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 16:7", "text": "And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 16:8", "text": "The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 16:9", "text": "Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 16:10", "text": "And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said to him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Why hast thou done so?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 16:11", "text": "And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now [may this] Benjaminite [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 16:12", "text": "It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 16:13", "text": "And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 16:14", "text": "And the king, and all the people that [were] with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 16:15", "text": "And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 16:16", "text": "And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, had come to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, God save the king, God save the king." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 16:17", "text": "And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 16:18", "text": "And Hushai said to Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 16:19", "text": "And again, whom should I serve? [should I] not [serve] in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 16:20", "text": "Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 16:21", "text": "And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred by thy father: then shall the hands of all that [are] with thee be strong." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 16:22", "text": "So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 16:23", "text": "And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, [was] as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 17:1", "text": "Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 17:2", "text": "And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 17:3", "text": "And I will bring back all the people to thee: the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 17:4", "text": "And the saying, pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 17:5", "text": "Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 17:6", "text": "And when Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak thou." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 17:7", "text": "And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given, [is] not good at this time." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 17:8", "text": "For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they [are] mighty men, and they [are] chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 17:9", "text": "Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them [are] overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 17:10", "text": "And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] who [are] with him [are] valiant men." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 17:11", "text": "Therefore I counsel that all Israel should be generally gathered to thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou shouldst go to battle in thy own person." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 17:12", "text": "So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that [are] with him there shall not be left so much as one." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 17:13", "text": "Moreover, if he shall have entered into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there is not one small stone found there." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 17:14", "text": "And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 17:15", "text": "Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 17:16", "text": "Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 17:17", "text": "Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a maid servant went and told them; and they went and told king David." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 17:18", "text": "Nevertheless, a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; into which they descended." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 17:19", "text": "And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn upon it; and the thing was not known." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 17:20", "text": "And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, they have gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 17:21", "text": "And it came to pass, after they had departed, that they came out of the well, and went and told king David, and said to David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counseled against you." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 17:22", "text": "Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that had not gone over Jordan." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 17:23", "text": "And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died. and was buried in the sepulcher of his father." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 17:24", "text": "Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 17:25", "text": "And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa [was] a man's son, whose name [was] Ithra, an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 17:26", "text": "So Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 17:27", "text": "And it came to pass, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 17:28", "text": "Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse]," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 17:29", "text": "And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows, for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The people [are] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 18:1", "text": "And David numbered the people that [were] with him, and set over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 18:2", "text": "And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 18:3", "text": "But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou shouldst succor us out of the city." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 18:4", "text": "And the king said to them, What seemeth to you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 18:5", "text": "And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man, [even] with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 18:6", "text": "So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 18:7", "text": "Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 18:8", "text": "For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 18:9", "text": "And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was suspended between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that [was] under him went away." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 18:10", "text": "And a certain man saw [it], and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 18:11", "text": "And Joab said to the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 18:12", "text": "And the man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [shekels] of silver in my hand, [yet] would I not put forth my hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none [touch] the young man Absalom." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 18:13", "text": "Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against my own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldst have set thyself against [me]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 18:14", "text": "Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he [was] yet alive in the midst of the oak." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 18:15", "text": "And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 18:16", "text": "And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel: for Joab restrained the people." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 18:17", "text": "And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 18:18", "text": "Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and raised for himself a pillar, which [is] in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called to this day, Absalom's place." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 18:19", "text": "Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and inform the king, how the LORD hath avenged himself of his enemies." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 18:20", "text": "And Joab said to him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 18:21", "text": "Then said Joab to Cushi, Go, tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself to Joab, and ran." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 18:22", "text": "Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But however, let me also, I pray thee, run after Cushi. And Joab said, Why wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 18:23", "text": "But however, [said he], let me run. And he said to him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran Cushi." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 18:24", "text": "And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 18:25", "text": "And the watchman called, and told the king. And the king said, If he [is] alone [there is] tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 18:26", "text": "And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called to the porter, and said, Behold [another] man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 18:27", "text": "And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He [is] a good man, and cometh with good news." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 18:28", "text": "And Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD thy God, who hath delivered up the men that raised their hand against my lord the king." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 18:29", "text": "And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and [me] thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what [it was]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 18:30", "text": "And the king said [to him], Turn aside, [and] stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 18:31", "text": "And behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 18:32", "text": "And the king said to Cushi, [Is] the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, May the enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do [thee] hurt, be as [that] young man [is]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 18:33", "text": "And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! O that I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 19:1", "text": "And it was told to Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 19:2", "text": "And the victory that day was [turned] into mourning to all the people: for the people heard it said that day how the king was grieved for his son." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 19:3", "text": "And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 19:4", "text": "But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 19:5", "text": "And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 19:6", "text": "In that thou lovest thy enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 19:7", "text": "Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou shalt not go forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse to thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 19:8", "text": "Then the king rose, and sat in the gate. And they told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 19:9", "text": "And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he hath fled out of the land for Absalom." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 19:10", "text": "And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 19:11", "text": "And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [even] to his house." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 19:12", "text": "Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh: why then are ye the last to bring back the king?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 19:13", "text": "And say ye to Amasa, [Art] thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 19:14", "text": "And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent [this word] to the king, Return thou, and all thy servants." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 19:15", "text": "So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 19:16", "text": "And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjaminite, who [was] of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 19:17", "text": "And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 19:18", "text": "And there went over a ferry-boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he came over Jordan;" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 19:19", "text": "And said to the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 19:20", "text": "For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore behold, I have come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 19:21", "text": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 19:22", "text": "And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I [am] this day king over Israel?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 19:23", "text": "Therefore the king said to Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king swore to him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 19:24", "text": "And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came [again] in peace." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 19:25", "text": "And it came to pass, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 19:26", "text": "And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride on it, and go to the king; because thy servant [is] lame." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 19:27", "text": "And he hath slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God: do therefore [what is] good in thy eyes." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 19:28", "text": "For all [of] my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that ate at thy own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more to the king?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 19:29", "text": "And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 19:30", "text": "And Mephibosheth said to the king, Yes, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king hath come again in peace to his own house." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 19:31", "text": "And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 19:32", "text": "Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: for he [was] a very great man." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 19:33", "text": "And the king said to Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Samuel 19:34", "text": "And Barzillai said to the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Samuel 19:35", "text": "I [am] this day eighty years old: [and] can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women? why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Samuel 19:36", "text": "Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Samuel 19:37", "text": "Let thy servant, I pray thee, return again, that I may die in my own city, [and be buried] by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Samuel 19:38", "text": "And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to thee: and whatever thou shalt require of me, [that] will I do for thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Samuel 19:39", "text": "And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king had come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "name": "2 Samuel 19:40", "text": "Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "name": "2 Samuel 19:41", "text": "And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to him, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 42, "name": "2 Samuel 19:42", "text": "And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king [is] near of kin to us: why then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's [cost]? or hath he given us any gift?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 43, "name": "2 Samuel 19:43", "text": "And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 20:1", "text": "And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name [was] Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 20:2", "text": "So every man of Israel, withdrawing from David, followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah adhered to their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 20:3", "text": "And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and fed them, but went not in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 20:4", "text": "Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble to me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 20:5", "text": "So Amasa went to assemble [the men of] Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 20:6", "text": "And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue him, lest he get for himself fortified cities, and escape us." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 20:7", "text": "And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 20:8", "text": "When they [were] at the great stone which [is] in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded to him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 20:9", "text": "And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 20:10", "text": "But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab's hand: so he smote him in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 20:11", "text": "And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoreth Joab, and he that [is] for David, [let him go] after Joab." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 20:12", "text": "And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 20:13", "text": "When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 20:14", "text": "And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were assembled, and went also after him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 20:15", "text": "And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 20:16", "text": "Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, to Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 20:17", "text": "And when he was come near to her, the woman said, [Art] thou Joab? And he answered, I [am he]. Then she said to him, Hear the words of thy handmaid. And he answered, I do hear." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 20:18", "text": "Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They will surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 20:19", "text": "I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 20:20", "text": "And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 20:21", "text": "The matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even] against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 20:22", "text": "Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast [it] out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 20:23", "text": "Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 20:24", "text": "And Adoram [was] over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 20:25", "text": "And Sheva [was] scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 20:26", "text": "And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 21:1", "text": "Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 21:2", "text": "And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them; (now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them, in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 21:3", "text": "Wherefore David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 21:4", "text": "And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, [that] will I do for you." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 21:5", "text": "And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining within the borders of Israel," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 21:6", "text": "Let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD chose. And the king said, I will give [them]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 21:7", "text": "But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that [was] between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 21:8", "text": "But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 21:9", "text": "And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 21:10", "text": "And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 21:11", "text": "And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 21:12", "text": "And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 21:13", "text": "And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 21:14", "text": "And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son they buried in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulcher of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 21:15", "text": "Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David became faint." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 21:16", "text": "And Ishbi-benob, who [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 21:17", "text": "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, Thou shalt go out no more with us to battle, that thou mayest not extinguish the light of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 21:18", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, who [was] of the sons of the giant." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 21:19", "text": "And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 21:20", "text": "And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 21:21", "text": "And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 21:22", "text": "These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 22:1", "text": "And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 22:2", "text": "And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 22:3", "text": "The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my preserver; thou savest me from violence." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 22:4", "text": "I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 22:5", "text": "When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly-men made me afraid;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 22:6", "text": "The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 22:7", "text": "In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry [entered] into his ears." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 22:8", "text": "Then the earth shook and trembled: the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 22:9", "text": "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 22:10", "text": "He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness [was] under his feet." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 22:11", "text": "And he rode upon a cherub, and flew: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 22:12", "text": "And he made darkness pavilions around him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 22:13", "text": "Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 22:14", "text": "The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 22:15", "text": "And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 22:16", "text": "And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid open, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 22:17", "text": "He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 22:18", "text": "He delivered me from my strong enemy, from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 22:19", "text": "They fell upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 22:20", "text": "He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 22:21", "text": "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 22:22", "text": "For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 22:23", "text": "For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 22:24", "text": "I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 22:25", "text": "Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye-sight." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 22:26", "text": "With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 22:27", "text": "With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 22:28", "text": "And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 22:29", "text": "For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 22:30", "text": "For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 22:31", "text": "[As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 22:32", "text": "For who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 22:33", "text": "God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Samuel 22:34", "text": "He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Samuel 22:35", "text": "He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Samuel 22:36", "text": "Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Samuel 22:37", "text": "Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet have not slipped." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Samuel 22:38", "text": "I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Samuel 22:39", "text": "And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they have fallen under my feet." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "name": "2 Samuel 22:40", "text": "For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "name": "2 Samuel 22:41", "text": "Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 42, "name": "2 Samuel 22:42", "text": "They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] to the LORD, but he answered them not." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 43, "name": "2 Samuel 22:43", "text": "Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them as the mire of the street, [and] spread them abroad." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 44, "name": "2 Samuel 22:44", "text": "Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 45, "name": "2 Samuel 22:45", "text": "Strangers shall submit themselves to me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient to me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 46, "name": "2 Samuel 22:46", "text": "Strangers shall fade away, and they shall tremble from their close places." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 47, "name": "2 Samuel 22:47", "text": "The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 48, "name": "2 Samuel 22:48", "text": "It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 49, "name": "2 Samuel 22:49", "text": "And that bringeth me forth from my enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 50, "name": "2 Samuel 22:50", "text": "Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises to thy name." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 51, "name": "2 Samuel 22:51", "text": "[He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and [he] showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 23:1", "text": "Now these [are] the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man [who was] raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 23:2", "text": "The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word [was] on my tongue." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 23:3", "text": "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that ruleth over men [must be] just, ruling in the fear of God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 23:4", "text": "And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 23:5", "text": "Although my house [is] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he maketh [it] not to grow." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 23:6", "text": "But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 23:7", "text": "But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the [same] place." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 23:8", "text": "These [are] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lifted up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 23:9", "text": "And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there assembled to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 23:10", "text": "He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand adhered to the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to plunder." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 23:11", "text": "And after him [was] Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were collected into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentils: and the people fled from the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 23:12", "text": "But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 23:13", "text": "And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 23:14", "text": "And David [was] then in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines [was] then [in] Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 23:15", "text": "And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which [is] by the gate!" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 23:16", "text": "And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 23:17", "text": "And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 23:18", "text": "And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and] slew [them], and had the name among three." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 23:19", "text": "Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: yet he attained not to the [first] three." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 23:20", "text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 23:21", "text": "And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 23:22", "text": "These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among three mighty men." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 23:23", "text": "He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 23:24", "text": "Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 23:25", "text": "Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Samuel 23:26", "text": "Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Samuel 23:27", "text": "Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Samuel 23:28", "text": "Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Samuel 23:29", "text": "Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Samuel 23:30", "text": "Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Samuel 23:31", "text": "Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Samuel 23:32", "text": "Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Samuel 23:33", "text": "Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Samuel 23:34", "text": "Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Samuel 23:35", "text": "Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Samuel 23:36", "text": "Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani, the Gadite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Samuel 23:37", "text": "Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Samuel 23:38", "text": "Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Samuel 23:39", "text": "Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Samuel 24:1", "text": "And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go number Israel and Judah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Samuel 24:2", "text": "For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who [was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Samuel 24:3", "text": "And Joab said to the king, Now the LORD thy God add to the people, how many soever they may be, a hundred-fold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Samuel 24:4", "text": "Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Samuel 24:5", "text": "And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad, and towards Jazer:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Samuel 24:6", "text": "Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Samuel 24:7", "text": "And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Samuel 24:8", "text": "So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Samuel 24:9", "text": "And Joab presented the sum of the number of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Samuel 24:10", "text": "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Samuel 24:11", "text": "For when David had risen in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Samuel 24:12", "text": "Go and say to David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]; choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] to thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Samuel 24:13", "text": "So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Samuel 24:14", "text": "And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies [are] great: and let me not fall into the hand of man." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Samuel 24:15", "text": "So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Samuel 24:16", "text": "And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thy hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Samuel 24:17", "text": "And David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Samuel 24:18", "text": "And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Samuel 24:19", "text": "And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Samuel 24:20", "text": "And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming towards him: And Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Samuel 24:21", "text": "And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Samuel 24:22", "text": "And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what [seemeth] good to him: behold, [here are] oxen for burnt-sacrifice, and threshing-instruments and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Samuel 24:23", "text": "All these [things] did Araunah, [as] a king, give to the king. And Araunah said to the king, The LORD thy God accept thee." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Samuel 24:24", "text": "And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt-offerings to the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Samuel 24:25", "text": "And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 11, "name": "1 Kings", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "1 Kings 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 1:1", "text": "Now king David was old [and] advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 1:2", "text": "Wherefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 1:3", "text": "So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunamite, and brought her to the king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 1:4", "text": "And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 1:5", "text": "Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 1:6", "text": "And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his mother] bore him after Absalom." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 1:7", "text": "And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah, helped [him]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 1:8", "text": "But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who [belonged] to David, were not with Adonijah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 1:9", "text": "And Adonijah slew sheep, and oxen, and fat cattle, by the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 1:10", "text": "But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 1:11", "text": "Wherefore Nathan spoke to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth [it] not?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 1:12", "text": "Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thy own life, and the life of thy son Solomon." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 1:13", "text": "Go, and enter in to king David, and say to him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to thy handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 1:14", "text": "Behold, while thou art yet talking there with the king, I will also come in after thee, and confirm thy words." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 1:15", "text": "And Bath-sheba went to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunamite ministered to the king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 1:16", "text": "And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What wouldst thou?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 1:17", "text": "And she said to him, My lord, thou didst swear by the LORD thy God to thy handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 1:18", "text": "And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest [it] not:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 1:19", "text": "And he hath slain oxen, and fat cattle, and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 1:20", "text": "And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are] upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 1:21", "text": "Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 1:22", "text": "And lo, while she was yet talking with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 1:23", "text": "And they told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. And when he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 1:24", "text": "And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 1:25", "text": "For he hath gone down this day, and hath slain oxen, and fat cattle, and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 1:26", "text": "But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 1:27", "text": "Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shown [it] to thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 1:28", "text": "Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 1:29", "text": "And the king swore, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 1:30", "text": "Even as I swore to thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 1:31", "text": "Then Bath-sheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 1:32", "text": "And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 1:33", "text": "The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 1:34", "text": "And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 1:35", "text": "Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 1:36", "text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 1:37", "text": "As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so let him be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 1:38", "text": "So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 1:39", "text": "And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 1:40", "text": "And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 1:41", "text": "And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with him heard [it] as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why [is this] noise of the city being in an uproar?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 1:42", "text": "And while he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said to him, Come in; for thou [art] a valiant man, and bringest good tidings." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 1:43", "text": "And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Kings 1:44", "text": "And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Kings 1:45", "text": "And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they have come from thence rejoicing, so that the city resounded. This [is] the noise that ye have heard." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Kings 1:46", "text": "And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Kings 1:47", "text": "And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Kings 1:48", "text": "And also thus said the king, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who hath given [one] to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing [it]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Kings 1:49", "text": "And all the guests that [were] with Adonijah were afraid, and arose, and went every man his way." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Kings 1:50", "text": "And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Kings 1:51", "text": "And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me to-day that he will not slay his servant with the sword." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Kings 1:52", "text": "And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Kings 1:53", "text": "So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said to him, Go to thy house." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "1 Kings 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 2:1", "text": "Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 2:2", "text": "I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 2:3", "text": "And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 2:4", "text": "That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 2:5", "text": "Moreover, thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 2:6", "text": "Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to the grave in peace." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 2:7", "text": "But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 2:8", "text": "And behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjaminite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 2:9", "text": "Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do to him; but his hoary head do thou bring down to the grave with blood." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 2:10", "text": "So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 2:11", "text": "And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 2:12", "text": "Then Solomon was seated upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 2:13", "text": "And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? and he said, Peaceably." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 2:14", "text": "He said moreover, I have somewhat to say to thee. And she said, Say on." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 2:15", "text": "And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: but the kingdom is turned about, and hath become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 2:16", "text": "And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said to him, Say on." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 2:17", "text": "And he said, Speak, I pray thee, to Solomon the king, (for he will not say to thee no,) that he give me Abishag the Shunamite for a wife." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 2:18", "text": "And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee to the king." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 2:19", "text": "Bath-sheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 2:20", "text": "Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; [I pray thee], deny me not. And the king said to her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not deny thee." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 2:21", "text": "And she said, Let Abishag the Shunamite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 2:22", "text": "And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he [is] my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 2:23", "text": "Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah hath not spoken this word against his own life." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 2:24", "text": "Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 2:25", "text": "And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 2:26", "text": "And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Depart to Anathoth, to thy own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 2:27", "text": "So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD; that he might fulfill the word of the LORD, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 2:28", "text": "Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 2:29", "text": "And it was told to king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of the LORD; and behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 2:30", "text": "And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said to him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, No; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 2:31", "text": "And the king said to him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 2:32", "text": "And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing [of it], [to wit], Abner the son of Ner captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 2:33", "text": "Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace forever from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 2:34", "text": "So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 2:35", "text": "And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the army: and Zadok the priest the king put in the room of Abiathar." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 2:36", "text": "And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence to any place whatever." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 2:37", "text": "For it shall be, [that] on the day thou shalt go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thy own head." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 2:38", "text": "And Shimei said to the king, The saying [is] good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 2:39", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maachah king of Gath: and they told Shimei, saying, behold, thy servants are in Gath." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 2:40", "text": "And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 2:41", "text": "And it was told to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 2:42", "text": "And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protest to thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest any where abroad, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst to me, The word [that] I have heard [is] good." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 2:43", "text": "Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Kings 2:44", "text": "The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD will return thy wickedness upon thy own head;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Kings 2:45", "text": "And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Kings 2:46", "text": "So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; who went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "1 Kings 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 3:1", "text": "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem on every side." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 3:2", "text": "Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 3:3", "text": "And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 3:4", "text": "And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 3:5", "text": "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 3:6", "text": "And Solomon said, Thou hast shown to thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 3:7", "text": "And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not how to go out or come in." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 3:8", "text": "And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 3:9", "text": "Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 3:10", "text": "And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 3:11", "text": "And God said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thy enemies: but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 3:12", "text": "Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like to thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 3:13", "text": "And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honor: so that there shall not be any among the kings like to thee all thy days," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 3:14", "text": "And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 3:15", "text": "And Solomon awoke; and behold, [it was] a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 3:16", "text": "Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, to the king, and stood before him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 3:17", "text": "And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 3:18", "text": "And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we [were] together; [there was] no stranger with us in the house, save us two in the house." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 3:19", "text": "And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 3:20", "text": "And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 3:21", "text": "And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I bore." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 3:22", "text": "And the other woman said, No; but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] thy son. And this said, No; but the dead [is] thy son, and the living [is] my son. Thus they spoke before the king." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 3:23", "text": "Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son that liveth, and thy son [is] the dead; and the other saith, No; but thy son [is] the dead, and my son [is] the living." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 3:24", "text": "And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 3:25", "text": "And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 3:26", "text": "Then spoke the woman whose the living child [was] to the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, [but] divide [it]." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 3:27", "text": "Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother of it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 3:28", "text": "And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to do judgment." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "1 Kings 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 4:1", "text": "So king Solomon was king over all Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 4:2", "text": "And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 4:3", "text": "Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehosaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 4:4", "text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the army: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 4:5", "text": "And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king's friend:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 4:6", "text": "And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 4:7", "text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 4:8", "text": "And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 4:9", "text": "The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 4:10", "text": "The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 4:11", "text": "The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon for a wife:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 4:12", "text": "Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, [even] to [the place that is] beyond Jokneam:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 4:13", "text": "The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 4:14", "text": "Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 4:15", "text": "Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon for a wife:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 4:16", "text": "Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 4:17", "text": "Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 4:18", "text": "Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 4:19", "text": "Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in] the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who [was] in the land." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 4:20", "text": "Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 4:21", "text": "And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 4:22", "text": "And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 4:23", "text": "Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowls." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 4:24", "text": "For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side of the river: and he had peace on all sides around him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 4:25", "text": "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 4:26", "text": "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 4:27", "text": "And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 4:28", "text": "Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries they brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 4:29", "text": "And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea-shore." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 4:30", "text": "And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 4:31", "text": "For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the surrounding nations." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 4:32", "text": "And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 4:33", "text": "And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals, and of fishes." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 4:34", "text": "And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "1 Kings 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 5:1", "text": "And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 5:2", "text": "And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 5:3", "text": "Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house to the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 5:4", "text": "But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 5:5", "text": "And behold, I purpose to build a house to the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build a house to my name." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 5:6", "text": "Now therefore command thou, that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and to thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that is skilled in hewing timber like the Sidonians." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 5:7", "text": "And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day, who hath given to David a wise son over this great people." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 5:8", "text": "And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: [and] I will perform all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 5:9", "text": "My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon to the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive [them]: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 5:10", "text": "So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his desire." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 5:11", "text": "And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 5:12", "text": "And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 5:13", "text": "And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 5:14", "text": "And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home. And Adoniram [was] over the levy." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 5:15", "text": "And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 5:16", "text": "Besides the chief of Solomon's officers who [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 5:17", "text": "And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 5:18", "text": "And Solomon's builders, and Hiram's builders did hew [them], and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "1 Kings 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 6:1", "text": "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 6:2", "text": "And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length of it [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the hight of it thirty cubits." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 6:3", "text": "And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth of it, before the house." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 6:4", "text": "And for the house he made windows of narrow lights." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 6:5", "text": "And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 6:6", "text": "The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 6:7", "text": "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 6:8", "text": "The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 6:9", "text": "So he built the house and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 6:10", "text": "And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 6:11", "text": "And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 6:12", "text": "[Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spoke to David thy father:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 6:13", "text": "And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 6:14", "text": "So Solomon built the house, and finished it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 6:15", "text": "And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 6:16", "text": "And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 6:17", "text": "And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 6:18", "text": "And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knobs and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 6:19", "text": "And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 6:20", "text": "And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the hight of it, and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 6:21", "text": "So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 6:22", "text": "And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 6:23", "text": "And within the oracle he made two cherubim [of] olive tree, [each] ten cubits high." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 6:24", "text": "And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 6:25", "text": "And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubim [were] of one measure and one size." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 6:26", "text": "The hight of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 6:27", "text": "And he set the cherubim within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubim, so that the wing of the one touched the [one] wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 6:28", "text": "And he overlaid the cherubim with gold." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 6:29", "text": "And he carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, within and without." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 6:30", "text": "And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 6:31", "text": "And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors [of] olive tree: the lintel [and] side-posts [were] a fifth part [of the wall]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 6:32", "text": "The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 6:33", "text": "So also he made for the door of the temple posts [of] olive tree a fourth part [of the wall]." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 6:34", "text": "And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 6:35", "text": "And he carved [thereon] cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers; and covered [them] with gold, fitted upon the carved work." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 6:36", "text": "And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 6:37", "text": "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 6:38", "text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul (which [is] the eighth month) was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "1 Kings 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 7:1", "text": "But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 7:2", "text": "He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length [was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its hight thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 7:3", "text": "And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty-five pillars, fifteen [in] a row." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 7:4", "text": "And [there were] windows in three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 7:5", "text": "And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 7:6", "text": "And he made a porch of pillars; its length [was] fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beams [were] before them." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 7:7", "text": "Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 7:8", "text": "And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married, like to this porch." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 7:9", "text": "All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and [so] on the outside towards the great court." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 7:10", "text": "And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones; stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 7:11", "text": "And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewn stones, and cedars." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 7:12", "text": "And the great court around [was] with three rows of hewn stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 7:13", "text": "And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 7:14", "text": "He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and ingenious to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 7:15", "text": "For he cast two pillars of brass, each of eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits did encompass each of them." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 7:16", "text": "And he made two capitals [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the hight of the one capital [was] five cubits, and the hight of the other capital [was] five cubits:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 7:17", "text": "[And] nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 7:18", "text": "And he made the pillars, and two rows around upon the one net-work, to cover the capitals that [were] upon the top, with pomegranates: and so he did for the other capital." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 7:19", "text": "And the capitals that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 7:20", "text": "And the capitals upon the two pillars [had pomegranates] also above, over against the belly which [was] by the net-work: and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows around upon the other capital." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 7:21", "text": "And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 7:22", "text": "And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 7:23", "text": "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] entirely round, and its hight [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 7:24", "text": "And under the brim of it around [there were] knobs compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea around: the knobs [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 7:25", "text": "It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking towards the north, and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards the south, and three looking towards the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 7:26", "text": "And it [was] a hand-breadth thick, and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 7:27", "text": "And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the hight of it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 7:28", "text": "And the work of the bases [was] in this [manner]: They had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 7:29", "text": "And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, and cherubim: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 7:30", "text": "And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners of it had undersetters: under the laver [were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 7:31", "text": "And the mouth of it within the capital and above [was] a cubit: but the mouth of it [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and a half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 7:32", "text": "And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the hight of a wheel [was] a cubit and half a cubit." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 7:33", "text": "And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their fellies, and their spokes, [were] all molten." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 7:34", "text": "And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 7:35", "text": "And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base its ledges and its borders [were] of the same." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 7:36", "text": "For on the plates of its ledges, and on its borders, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions around." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 7:37", "text": "After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, [and] one size." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 7:38", "text": "Then he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 7:39", "text": "And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 7:40", "text": "And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he executed for king Solomon for the house of the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 7:41", "text": "The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the capitals that [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two net-works, to cover the two bowls of the capitals which [were] upon the top of the pillars;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 7:42", "text": "And four hundred pomegranates for the two net-works, [even] two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that [were] upon the pillars;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 7:43", "text": "And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Kings 7:44", "text": "And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Kings 7:45", "text": "And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of] bright brass." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Kings 7:46", "text": "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Kings 7:47", "text": "And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were very numerous: neither was the weight of the brass ascertained." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Kings 7:48", "text": "And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] to the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which [was] the show-bread," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Kings 7:49", "text": "And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right [side], and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs [of] gold," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Kings 7:50", "text": "And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house, the most holy [place], [and] for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Kings 7:51", "text": "So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, he placed among the treasures of the house of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "1 Kings 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 8:1", "text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 8:2", "text": "And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 8:3", "text": "And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 8:4", "text": "And they brought the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 8:5", "text": "And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, [were] with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 8:6", "text": "And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place], [even] under the wings of the cherubim." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 8:7", "text": "For the cherubim spread forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staffs thereof above." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 8:8", "text": "And they drew out the staffs, that the ends of the staffs were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are to this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 8:9", "text": "[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses deposited there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 8:10", "text": "And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 8:11", "text": "So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 8:12", "text": "Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 8:13", "text": "I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 8:14", "text": "And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel were standing." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 8:15", "text": "And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled [it], saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 8:16", "text": "Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel from Egypt, I have chosen no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 8:17", "text": "And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 8:18", "text": "And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 8:19", "text": "Nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house to my name." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 8:20", "text": "And the LORD hath performed his word that he spoke, and I have risen in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 8:21", "text": "And I have set there a place for the ark, in which [is] the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them from the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 8:22", "text": "And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards Heaven:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 8:23", "text": "And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 8:24", "text": "Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him: thou didst speak also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thy hand, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 8:25", "text": "Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; provided thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 8:26", "text": "And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou didst speak to thy servant David my father." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 8:27", "text": "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have built?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 8:28", "text": "Yet have thou respect to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 8:29", "text": "That thy eyes may be open towards this house night and day, [even] towards the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant shall make towards this place." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 8:30", "text": "And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray towards this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place: and when thou hearest, forgive." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 8:31", "text": "If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thy altar in this house:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 8:32", "text": "Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 8:33", "text": "When thy people Israel shall be smitten before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication to thee in this house:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 8:34", "text": "Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to their fathers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 8:35", "text": "When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray towards this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 8:36", "text": "Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou mayest teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 8:37", "text": "If there shall be in the land famine, if there shall be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there shall be caterpillar; if their enemy shall besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness [there shall be];" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 8:38", "text": "Whatever prayer and supplication shall be [made] by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands towards this house:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 8:39", "text": "Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 8:40", "text": "That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 8:41", "text": "Moreover, concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 8:42", "text": "(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy out-stretched arm;) when he shall come and pray towards this house;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 8:43", "text": "Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Kings 8:44", "text": "If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray to the LORD towards the city which thou hast chosen, and [towards] the house that I have built for thy name:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Kings 8:45", "text": "Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Kings 8:46", "text": "If they shall sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Kings 8:47", "text": "[Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent and make supplication to thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Kings 8:48", "text": "And [so] return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to thee towards their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Kings 8:49", "text": "Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Kings 8:50", "text": "And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Kings 8:51", "text": "For they [are] thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Kings 8:52", "text": "That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken to them in all their supplications to thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Kings 8:53", "text": "For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, [to be] thy inheritance, as thou didst speak by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 54, "name": "1 Kings 8:54", "text": "And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees, with his hands spread up to heaven." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 55, "name": "1 Kings 8:55", "text": "And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 56, "name": "1 Kings 8:56", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 57, "name": "1 Kings 8:57", "text": "The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 58, "name": "1 Kings 8:58", "text": "That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 59, "name": "1 Kings 8:59", "text": "And let these my words with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh to the LORD our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 60, "name": "1 Kings 8:60", "text": "That all the people of the earth may know, that the LORD [is] God, [and that there is] none else." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 61, "name": "1 Kings 8:61", "text": "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 62, "name": "1 Kings 8:62", "text": "And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 63, "name": "1 Kings 8:63", "text": "And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 64, "name": "1 Kings 8:64", "text": "The same day did the king consecrate the middle of the court that [was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings: because the brazen altar that [was] before the LORD [was] too little to receive the burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 65, "name": "1 Kings 8:65", "text": "And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance into Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen days." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 66, "name": "1 Kings 8:66", "text": "On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "1 Kings 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 9:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to perform," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 9:2", "text": "That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 9:3", "text": "And the LORD said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 9:4", "text": "And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 9:5", "text": "Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 9:6", "text": "[But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 9:7", "text": "Then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word among all people:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 9:8", "text": "And at this house [which] is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 9:9", "text": "And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers from the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshiped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 9:10", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 9:11", "text": "([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 9:12", "text": "And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 9:13", "text": "And he said, What cities [are] these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 9:14", "text": "And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 9:15", "text": "And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 9:16", "text": "[For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it [for] a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 9:17", "text": "And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 9:18", "text": "And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 9:19", "text": "And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 9:20", "text": "[And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who [were] not of the children of Israel," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 9:21", "text": "Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond-service to this day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 9:22", "text": "But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bond-men: but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 9:23", "text": "These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 9:24", "text": "But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then he built Millo." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 9:25", "text": "And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that [was] before the LORD. So he finished the house." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 9:26", "text": "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which [is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 9:27", "text": "And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 9:28", "text": "And they came to Ophir, and imported from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "1 Kings 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 10:1", "text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 10:2", "text": "And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she had come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 10:3", "text": "And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 10:4", "text": "And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 10:5", "text": "And the provisions of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cup-bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 10:6", "text": "And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 10:7", "text": "Howbeit, I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen [it]: and behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 10:8", "text": "Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 10:9", "text": "Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore he made thee king, to do judgment and justice." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 10:10", "text": "And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great quantity, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 10:11", "text": "And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 10:12", "text": "And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug-trees, nor have they been seen to this day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 10:13", "text": "And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides [that] which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 10:14", "text": "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty six talents of gold," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 10:15", "text": "Besides [what he had] of the merchants, and of the traffic of the spice-merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 10:16", "text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 10:17", "text": "And [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 10:18", "text": "Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 10:19", "text": "The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was] round behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 10:20", "text": "And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 10:21", "text": "And all king Solomon's drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 10:22", "text": "For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 10:23", "text": "So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 10:24", "text": "And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 10:25", "text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 10:26", "text": "And Solomon collected chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 10:27", "text": "And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars he made [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 10:28", "text": "And Solomon had horses brought from Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 10:29", "text": "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their means." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "1 Kings 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 11:1", "text": "But king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 11:2", "text": "Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you: [for] surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon cleaved to these in love." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 11:3", "text": "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 11:4", "text": "For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 11:5", "text": "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 11:6", "text": "And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 11:7", "text": "Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 11:8", "text": "And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 11:9", "text": "And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 11:10", "text": "And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 11:11", "text": "Wherefore the LORD said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 11:12", "text": "Notwithstanding, in thy days, I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: [but] I will rend it out of the hand of thy son." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 11:13", "text": "Yet, I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 11:14", "text": "And the LORD stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in Edom." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 11:15", "text": "For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host had gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 11:16", "text": "(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 11:17", "text": "That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 11:18", "text": "And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them from Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt; who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 11:19", "text": "And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him for a wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 11:20", "text": "And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 11:21", "text": "And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 11:22", "text": "Then Pharaoh said to him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own country? And he answered, Nothing: yet, in any wise let me go." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 11:23", "text": "And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 11:24", "text": "And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt in it, and reigned in Damascus." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 11:25", "text": "And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 11:26", "text": "And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman, even he raised [his] hand against the king." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 11:27", "text": "And this [was] the cause why he raised [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 11:28", "text": "And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valor: and Solomon, seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 11:29", "text": "And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in the field:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 11:30", "text": "And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 11:31", "text": "And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 11:32", "text": "(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 11:33", "text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] David his father." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 11:34", "text": "Yet I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 11:35", "text": "But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to thee, [even] ten tribes." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 11:36", "text": "And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for me to put my name there." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 11:37", "text": "And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 11:38", "text": "And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken to all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to thee." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 11:39", "text": "And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 11:40", "text": "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 11:41", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 11:42", "text": "And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 11:43", "text": "And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "1 Kings 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 12:1", "text": "And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 12:2", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard [of it], (for he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 12:3", "text": "That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 12:4", "text": "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 12:5", "text": "And he said to them, Depart yet [for] three days, then come again to me. And the people departed." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 12:6", "text": "And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 12:7", "text": "And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant to this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 12:8", "text": "But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had grown up with him, [and] who stood before him:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 12:9", "text": "And he said to them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 12:10", "text": "And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak to this people who spoke to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter to us; thus shalt thou say to them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 12:11", "text": "And now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 12:12", "text": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 12:13", "text": "And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 12:14", "text": "And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 12:15", "text": "Wherefore the king hearkened not to the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 12:16", "text": "So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thy own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 12:17", "text": "But [as for] the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 12:18", "text": "Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to enter his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 12:19", "text": "So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 12:20", "text": "And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come again, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 12:21", "text": "And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 12:22", "text": "But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 12:23", "text": "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 12:24", "text": "Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 12:25", "text": "Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt in it, and went out from thence, and built Penuel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 12:26", "text": "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 12:27", "text": "If this people go up to perform sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again to their lord, [even] to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 12:28", "text": "Upon which the king took counsel, and made two calves [of] gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 12:29", "text": "And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other he placed in Dan." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 12:30", "text": "And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship] before the one, [even] to Dan." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 12:31", "text": "And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 12:32", "text": "And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that [is] in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 12:33", "text": "So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast to the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "1 Kings 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 13:1", "text": "And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 13:2", "text": "And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 13:3", "text": "And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 13:4", "text": "And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it to him again." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 13:5", "text": "The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 13:6", "text": "And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him again, and became as [it was] before." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 13:7", "text": "And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 13:8", "text": "And the man of God said to the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 13:9", "text": "For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 13:10", "text": "So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 13:11", "text": "Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken to the king, them they told also to their father." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 13:12", "text": "And their father said to them, What way went he? for his sons had seen what way the man of God went, who came from Judah." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 13:13", "text": "And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode upon it." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 13:14", "text": "And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said to him, [Art] thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I [am]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 13:15", "text": "Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 13:16", "text": "And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 13:17", "text": "For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 13:18", "text": "He said to him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied to him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 13:19", "text": "So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 13:20", "text": "And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 13:21", "text": "And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee," }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 13:22", "text": "But hast returned, and hast eaten bread and drank water in the place, of which [the LORD] said to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcass shall not come to the sepulcher of thy fathers." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 13:23", "text": "And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drank, that he saddled for him the ass, [to wit], for the prophet whom he had brought back." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 13:24", "text": "And when he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 13:25", "text": "And behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came and told [it] in the city where the old prophet dwelt." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 13:26", "text": "And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [of it], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient to the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him to the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 13:27", "text": "And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled [him]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 13:28", "text": "And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor torn the ass." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 13:29", "text": "And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 13:30", "text": "And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 13:31", "text": "And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 13:32", "text": "For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 13:33", "text": "After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 13:34", "text": "And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it off], and to destroy [it] from the face of the earth." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "1 Kings 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 14:1", "text": "At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 14:2", "text": "And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou mayest not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, who told me that [I should be] king over this people." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 14:3", "text": "And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he will tell thee what shall become of the child." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 14:4", "text": "And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 14:5", "text": "And the LORD said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say to her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she will feign herself [to be] another [woman]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 14:6", "text": "And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy [tidings]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 14:7", "text": "Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 14:8", "text": "And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in my eyes;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 14:9", "text": "But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 14:10", "text": "Therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam the males, [and] him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it is all gone." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 14:11", "text": "Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken [it]." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 14:12", "text": "Arise thou therefore, depart to thy own house: [and] when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 14:13", "text": "And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found [some] good thing towards the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 14:14", "text": "Moreover, the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 14:15", "text": "For the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he will root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 14:16", "text": "And he will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 14:17", "text": "And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshhold of the door, the child died;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 14:18", "text": "And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 14:19", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 14:20", "text": "And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 14:21", "text": "And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 14:22", "text": "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 14:23", "text": "For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 14:24", "text": "And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 14:25", "text": "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 14:26", "text": "And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all; and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 14:27", "text": "And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 14:28", "text": "And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 14:29", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 14:30", "text": "And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 14:31", "text": "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "1 Kings 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 15:1", "text": "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 15:2", "text": "Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 15:3", "text": "And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 15:4", "text": "Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 15:5", "text": "Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 15:6", "text": "And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 15:7", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 15:8", "text": "And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 15:9", "text": "And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 15:10", "text": "And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 15:11", "text": "And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, as [did] David his father." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 15:12", "text": "And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 15:13", "text": "And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 15:14", "text": "But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 15:15", "text": "And he brought the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 15:16", "text": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 15:17", "text": "And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 15:18", "text": "Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that were] left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 15:19", "text": "[There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent to thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 15:20", "text": "So Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 15:21", "text": "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [of it], that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 15:22", "text": "Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built it; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 15:23", "text": "The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 15:24", "text": "And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 15:25", "text": "And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 15:26", "text": "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 15:27", "text": "And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 15:28", "text": "Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 15:29", "text": "And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 15:30", "text": "Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 15:31", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 15:32", "text": "And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 15:33", "text": "In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 15:34", "text": "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "1 Kings 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 16:1", "text": "Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 16:2", "text": "Forasmuch as I exalted thee from the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 16:3", "text": "Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 16:4", "text": "Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 16:5", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 16:6", "text": "So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 16:7", "text": "And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 16:8", "text": "In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 16:9", "text": "And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of [his] house in Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 16:10", "text": "And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 16:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one male, neither of his kinsman, nor of his friends." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 16:12", "text": "Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha, by Jehu the prophet," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 16:13", "text": "For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 16:14", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 16:15", "text": "In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 16:16", "text": "And the people [that were] encamped heard it said, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 16:17", "text": "And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 16:18", "text": "And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 16:19", "text": "For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 16:20", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 16:21", "text": "Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 16:22", "text": "But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 16:23", "text": "In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 16:24", "text": "And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 16:25", "text": "But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that [were] before him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 16:26", "text": "For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 16:27", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 16:28", "text": "So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 16:29", "text": "And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 16:30", "text": "And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that [were] before him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 16:31", "text": "And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 16:32", "text": "And he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 16:33", "text": "And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 16:34", "text": "In his days Hiel the Beth-elite built Jericho: he laid the foundation of it in Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "1 Kings 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 17:1", "text": "And Elijah the Tishbite [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 17:2", "text": "And the word of the LORD came to him, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 17:3", "text": "Depart hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 17:4", "text": "And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 17:5", "text": "So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 17:6", "text": "And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 17:7", "text": "And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 17:8", "text": "And the word of the LORD came to him, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 17:9", "text": "Arise, go to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 17:10", "text": "So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 17:11", "text": "And as she was going to bring [it], he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 17:12", "text": "And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 17:13", "text": "And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me of it a little cake first, and bring [it] to me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 17:14", "text": "For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 17:15", "text": "And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 17:16", "text": "[And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Elijah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 17:17", "text": "And it came to pass after these things [that] the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 17:18", "text": "And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come to me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 17:19", "text": "And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 17:20", "text": "And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 17:21", "text": "And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 17:22", "text": "And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 17:23", "text": "And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 17:24", "text": "And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou [art] a man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "1 Kings 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 18:1", "text": "And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 18:2", "text": "And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And [there was] a grievous famine in Samaria." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 18:3", "text": "And Ahab called Obadiah who [was] the governor of [his] house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 18:4", "text": "For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 18:5", "text": "And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all brooks: it may be we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 18:6", "text": "So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 18:7", "text": "And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 18:8", "text": "And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 18:9", "text": "And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay me?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 18:10", "text": "[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation nor kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 18:11", "text": "And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 18:12", "text": "And it will come to pass, [as soon as] I have gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 18:13", "text": "Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 18:14", "text": "And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]: and he will slay me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 18:15", "text": "And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him to-day." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 18:16", "text": "So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 18:17", "text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, [Art] thou he that troubleth Israel?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 18:18", "text": "And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 18:19", "text": "Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 18:20", "text": "So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets to mount Carmel." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 18:21", "text": "And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [is] God, follow him: but if Baal, [then] follow him. And the people answered him not a word." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 18:22", "text": "Then said Elijah to the people, I [even] I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophet's [are] four hundred and fifty men." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 18:23", "text": "Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 18:24", "text": "And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 18:25", "text": "And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress [it] first; for ye [are] many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire [under]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 18:26", "text": "And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed [it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 18:27", "text": "And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, [or] perhaps he sleepeth, and must be awaked." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 18:28", "text": "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 18:29", "text": "And it came to pass, when mid-day was past, and they prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that [there was] neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 18:30", "text": "And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD [that was] broken down." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 18:31", "text": "And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 18:32", "text": "And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 18:33", "text": "And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour [it] on the burnt-sacrifice, and on the wood." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 18:34", "text": "And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did [it] the second time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they did [it] the third time." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 18:35", "text": "And the water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 18:36", "text": "And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art] God in Israel, and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy word." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 18:37", "text": "Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 18:38", "text": "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was] in the trench." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 18:39", "text": "And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 18:40", "text": "And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 18:41", "text": "And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink; for [there is] a sound of abundance of rain." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 18:42", "text": "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 18:43", "text": "And said to his servant, Go up now, look towards the sea. And he went up and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go again seven times." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Kings 18:44", "text": "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot], and go down, that the rain may not hinder thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Kings 18:45", "text": "And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Kings 18:46", "text": "And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "1 Kings 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 19:1", "text": "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 19:2", "text": "Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 19:3", "text": "And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which [belongeth] to Judah, and left his servant there." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 19:4", "text": "But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 19:5", "text": "And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise [and] eat." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 19:6", "text": "And he looked, and behold, [there was] a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank, and laid himself down again." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 19:7", "text": "And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat, because the journey [is] too great for thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 19:8", "text": "And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 19:9", "text": "And he came thither to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, and he said to him, What doest thou here, Elijah?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 19:10", "text": "And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, I only, am left; and they seek my life to take it away." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 19:11", "text": "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 19:12", "text": "And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 19:13", "text": "And it was [so], when Elijah heard [it], that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, [there came] a voice to him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 19:14", "text": "And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 19:15", "text": "And the LORD said to him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael [to be] king over Syria:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 19:16", "text": "And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint [to be] prophet in thy room." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 19:17", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 19:18", "text": "Yet I have left to [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 19:19", "text": "So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 19:20", "text": "And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 19:21", "text": "And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "1 Kings 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 20:1", "text": "And Ben-hadad the king of Syria collected all his army: and [there were] thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 20:2", "text": "And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said to him, Thus saith Ben-hadad," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 20:3", "text": "Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the most comely, [are] mine." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 20:4", "text": "And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 20:5", "text": "And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent to thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver to me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 20:6", "text": "Yet I will send my servants to thee to-morrow about this time, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, [that] whatever is pleasant in thy eyes, they shall take [it] in their hand, and carry [it] away." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 20:7", "text": "Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I denied him not." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 20:8", "text": "And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken not [to him], nor consent." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 20:9", "text": "Wherefore he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first, I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 20:10", "text": "And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 20:11", "text": "And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that putteth it off." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 20:12", "text": "And it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this message as he [was] drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, Set [yourselves in array]. And they set [themselves in array] against the city." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 20:13", "text": "And behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 20:14", "text": "And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, [Even] by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 20:15", "text": "Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven thousand." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 20:16", "text": "And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad [was] drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 20:17", "text": "And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 20:18", "text": "And he said, Whether they have come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they have come out for war, take them alive." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 20:19", "text": "So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 20:20", "text": "And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 20:21", "text": "And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 20:22", "text": "And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 20:23", "text": "And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 20:24", "text": "And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 20:25", "text": "And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened to their voice, and did so." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 20:26", "text": "And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 20:27", "text": "And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 20:28", "text": "And there came a man of God, and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 20:29", "text": "And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And [so] it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 20:30", "text": "But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and [there] a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 20:31", "text": "And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: it may be he will save thy life." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 20:32", "text": "So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 20:33", "text": "Now the men diligently observed whether [any thing would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 20:34", "text": "And [Ben-hadad] said to him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then [said Ahab], I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 20:35", "text": "And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 20:36", "text": "Then said he to him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou hast departed from me, a lion will slay thee. And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 20:37", "text": "Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded [him]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 20:38", "text": "So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 20:39", "text": "And as the king passed by, he cried to the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he shall be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 20:40", "text": "And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So [shall] thy judgment [be]; thyself hast decided [it]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 20:41", "text": "And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 20:42", "text": "And he said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of [thy] hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 20:43", "text": "And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "1 Kings 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 21:1", "text": "And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 21:2", "text": "And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near to my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or] if it seemeth good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 21:3", "text": "And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 21:4", "text": "And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 21:5", "text": "But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 21:6", "text": "And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it pleaseth thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 21:7", "text": "And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 21:8", "text": "So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed [them] with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles that [were] in his city, dwelling with Naboth." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 21:9", "text": "And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 21:10", "text": "And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And [then] carry him out, and stone him, that he may die." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 21:11", "text": "And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent to them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 21:12", "text": "They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 21:13", "text": "And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 21:14", "text": "Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 21:15", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 21:16", "text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 21:17", "text": "And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 21:18", "text": "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who [is] in Samaria: behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 21:19", "text": "And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 21:20", "text": "And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found [thee]: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 21:21", "text": "Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab the males, and him that is shut up and left in Israel," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 21:22", "text": "And will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 21:23", "text": "And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying, the dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 21:24", "text": "Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 21:25", "text": "But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife instigated." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 21:26", "text": "And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all [things] as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 21:27", "text": "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 21:28", "text": "And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 21:29", "text": "Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "1 Kings 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Kings 22:1", "text": "And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Kings 22:2", "text": "And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Kings 22:3", "text": "And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [are] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Kings 22:4", "text": "And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Kings 22:5", "text": "And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to-day." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Kings 22:6", "text": "Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver [it] into the hand of the king." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Kings 22:7", "text": "And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we may inquire of him?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Kings 22:8", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Kings 22:9", "text": "Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten [hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Kings 22:10", "text": "And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Kings 22:11", "text": "And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou hast consumed them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Kings 22:12", "text": "And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD will deliver [it] into the king's hand." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Kings 22:13", "text": "And the messenger that went to call Micaiah, spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Kings 22:14", "text": "And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith to me, that will I speak." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Kings 22:15", "text": "So he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD will deliver [it] into the hand of the king." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Kings 22:16", "text": "And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but [that which is] true in the name of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Kings 22:17", "text": "And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Kings 22:18", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Kings 22:19", "text": "And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Kings 22:20", "text": "And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said in this manner, and another said in that manner." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Kings 22:21", "text": "And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Kings 22:22", "text": "And the LORD said to him, With what? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets? And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Kings 22:23", "text": "Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Kings 22:24", "text": "But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak to thee?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Kings 22:25", "text": "And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Kings 22:26", "text": "And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Kings 22:27", "text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [man] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Kings 22:28", "text": "And Micaiah said, If thou shalt return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Kings 22:29", "text": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Kings 22:30", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Kings 22:31", "text": "But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Kings 22:32", "text": "And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Kings 22:33", "text": "And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it [was] not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Kings 22:34", "text": "And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Kings 22:35", "text": "And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Kings 22:36", "text": "And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the setting of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Kings 22:37", "text": "So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Kings 22:38", "text": "And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armor; according to the word of the LORD which he spoke." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Kings 22:39", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Kings 22:40", "text": "So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Kings 22:41", "text": "And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Kings 22:42", "text": "Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Kings 22:43", "text": "And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Kings 22:44", "text": "And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Kings 22:45", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Kings 22:46", "text": "And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he removed from the land." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Kings 22:47", "text": "[There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Kings 22:48", "text": "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Kings 22:49", "text": "Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Kings 22:50", "text": "And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Kings 22:51", "text": "Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Kings 22:52", "text": "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Kings 22:53", "text": "For he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 12, "name": "2 Kings", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "2 Kings 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 1:1", "text": "Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 1:2", "text": "And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 1:3", "text": "But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 1:4", "text": "Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 1:5", "text": "And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why have ye now returned?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 1:6", "text": "And they said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 1:7", "text": "And he said to them, What manner of man [was he] who came up to meet you, and told you these words?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 1:8", "text": "And they answered him, [He was] a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 1:9", "text": "Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 1:10", "text": "And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I [am] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 1:11", "text": "Again also he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 1:12", "text": "And Elijah answered and said to them, If I [am] a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 1:13", "text": "And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 1:14", "text": "Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 1:15", "text": "And the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him to the king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 1:16", "text": "And he said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, [is it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 1:17", "text": "So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 1:18", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "2 Kings 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 2:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 2:2", "text": "And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 2:3", "text": "And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said to him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he said, Yes, I know [it]; hold ye your peace." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 2:4", "text": "And Elijah said to him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 2:5", "text": "And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Jericho came to Elisha, and said to him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he answered, Yes, I know [it]; hold ye your peace." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 2:6", "text": "And Elijah said to him, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 2:7", "text": "And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 2:8", "text": "And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 2:9", "text": "And it came to pass, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 2:10", "text": "And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if thou shalt see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be so to thee; but if not, it shall not be [so]." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 2:11", "text": "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 2:12", "text": "And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 2:13", "text": "He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 2:14", "text": "And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah? And when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 2:15", "text": "And when the sons of the prophets who [were] to view at Jericho, saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 2:16", "text": "And they said to him, Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest perhaps the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 2:17", "text": "And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 2:18", "text": "And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 2:19", "text": "And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water [is] bad, and the ground barren." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 2:20", "text": "And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought [it] to him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 2:21", "text": "And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land]." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 2:22", "text": "So the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 2:23", "text": "And he went up from thence to Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou bald-head; go up, thou bald-head." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 2:24", "text": "And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 2:25", "text": "And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "2 Kings 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 3:1", "text": "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria [in] the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 3:2", "text": "And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 3:3", "text": "Nevertheless, he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 3:4", "text": "And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and rendered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 3:5", "text": "But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 3:6", "text": "And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 3:7", "text": "And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go: I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 3:8", "text": "And he said, which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 3:9", "text": "So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that followed them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 3:10", "text": "And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 3:11", "text": "But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 3:12", "text": "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." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 3:13", "text": "And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him, No: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 3:14", "text": "And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look towards thee, nor see thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 3:15", "text": "But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 3:16", "text": "And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 3:17", "text": "For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 3:18", "text": "And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 3:19", "text": "And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 3:20", "text": "And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat-offering was offered, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 3:21", "text": "And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood in the border." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 3:22", "text": "And they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side [as] red as blood:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 3:23", "text": "And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 3:24", "text": "And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 3:25", "text": "And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirhara-seth they left the stones of it; but the slingers went about [it], and smote it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 3:26", "text": "And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom: but they could not." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 3:27", "text": "Then he took his eldest son that was to reign in his stead, and offered him [for] a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: And they departed from him, and returned to [their own] land." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "2 Kings 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 4:1", "text": "Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant feared the LORD: and the creditor hath come to take to him my two sons to be bond-men." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 4:2", "text": "And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 4:3", "text": "Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 4:4", "text": "And when thou hast come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 4:5", "text": "So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 4:6", "text": "And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said to her, [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil stayed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 4:7", "text": "Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children on the remainder." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 4:8", "text": "And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where [was] a distinguished woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And [so] it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 4:9", "text": "And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this [is] a holy man of God, who passeth by us continually." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 4:10", "text": "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 4:11", "text": "And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 4:12", "text": "And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunamite. And when he had called her, she stood before him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 4:13", "text": "And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for thee? wouldst thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 4:14", "text": "And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 4:15", "text": "And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 4:16", "text": "And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, [thou] man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 4:17", "text": "And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 4:18", "text": "And when the child was grown, it happened on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 4:19", "text": "And he said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 4:20", "text": "And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 4:21", "text": "And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 4:22", "text": "And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 4:23", "text": "And he said, Why wilt thou go to him to-day? [it is] neither new-moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 4:24", "text": "Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 4:25", "text": "So she went and came to the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, [yonder is] that Shunamite:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 4:26", "text": "Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say to her, [Is it] well with thee? [Is it] well with thy husband? [Is it] well with the child? and she answered, [It is] well." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 4:27", "text": "And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] sorrowful within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 4:28", "text": "Then she said, Did I ask a son from my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 4:29", "text": "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: and if thou shalt meet any man, salute him not; and if any shall salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 4:30", "text": "And the mother of the child said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 4:31", "text": "And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 4:32", "text": "And when Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 4:33", "text": "He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them both, and prayed to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 4:34", "text": "And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child became warm." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 4:35", "text": "Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 4:36", "text": "And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunamite. So he called her. And when she had come in to him, he said, Take up thy son." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 4:37", "text": "Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Kings 4:38", "text": "And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And [there was] a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Kings 4:39", "text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "name": "2 Kings 4:40", "text": "So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And they could not eat [of it]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "name": "2 Kings 4:41", "text": "But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "name": "2 Kings 4:42", "text": "And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in its husk. And he said, Give to the people, that they may eat." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "name": "2 Kings 4:43", "text": "And his servitor said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [of it]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "name": "2 Kings 4:44", "text": "So he set [it] before them, and they ate, and left [of it], according to the word of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "2 Kings 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 5:1", "text": "Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance to Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, [but he was] a leper." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 5:2", "text": "And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 5:3", "text": "And she said to her mistress, I would that my lord [were] with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 5:4", "text": "And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 5:5", "text": "And the king of Syria said, Come, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 5:6", "text": "And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter hath come to thee, behold, I have [with this] sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 5:7", "text": "And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 5:8", "text": "And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 5:9", "text": "So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 5:10", "text": "And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 5:11", "text": "But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 5:12", "text": "[Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 5:13", "text": "And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldst thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 5:14", "text": "Then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 5:15", "text": "And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing from thy servant." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 5:16", "text": "But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he refused." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 5:17", "text": "And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 5:18", "text": "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 5:19", "text": "And he said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 5:20", "text": "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but [as] the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat from him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 5:21", "text": "So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him] running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, [Is] all well?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 5:22", "text": "And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there have come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 5:23", "text": "And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants; and they bore [them] before him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 5:24", "text": "And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 5:25", "text": "But he went in, and stood before his master: and Elisha said to him, Whence [comest thou] Gehazi? and he said, Thy servant went no whither." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 5:26", "text": "And he said to him, Went not my heart [with thee], when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive-yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 5:27", "text": "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "2 Kings 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 6:1", "text": "And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too narrow for us." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 6:2", "text": "Let us go, we pray thee, to Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 6:3", "text": "And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 6:4", "text": "So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 6:5", "text": "But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 6:6", "text": "And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron floated." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 6:7", "text": "Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 6:8", "text": "Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place [shall be] my camp." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 6:9", "text": "And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians have come down." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 6:10", "text": "And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 6:11", "text": "Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Will ye not show me which of us [is] for the king of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 6:12", "text": "And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 6:13", "text": "And he said, Go, and spy where he [is], that I may send and bring him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in Dothan." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 6:14", "text": "Therefore he sent thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and encompassed the city." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 6:15", "text": "And when the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 6:16", "text": "And he answered, Fear not: for they that [are] with us [are] more than they that [are] with them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 6:17", "text": "And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 6:18", "text": "And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 6:19", "text": "And Elisha said to them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 6:20", "text": "And it came to pass, when they had come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men], that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, [they were] in the midst of Samaria." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 6:21", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 6:22", "text": "And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldst thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 6:23", "text": "And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drank, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 6:24", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 6:25", "text": "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 6:26", "text": "And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 6:27", "text": "And he said, If the LORD doth not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barn-floor, or out of the wine-press?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 6:28", "text": "And the king said to her, What aileth thee? and she answered, This woman said to me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 6:29", "text": "So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 6:30", "text": "And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon his flesh." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 6:31", "text": "Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 6:32", "text": "But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 6:33", "text": "And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] from the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?" } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "2 Kings 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 7:1", "text": "Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To-morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 7:2", "text": "Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thy eyes, but shalt not eat of it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 7:3", "text": "And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 7:4", "text": "If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 7:5", "text": "And they rose in the twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians: and when they had come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 7:6", "text": "For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 7:7", "text": "Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was], and fled for their life." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 7:8", "text": "And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence [also], and went and hid [it]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 7:9", "text": "Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day [is] a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 7:10", "text": "So they came and called to the porter of the city: and they told him, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, [there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they [were]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 7:11", "text": "And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the king's house within." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 7:12", "text": "And the king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we [are] hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp, to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 7:13", "text": "And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they [are] as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 7:14", "text": "They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 7:15", "text": "And they went after them to Jordan: and lo, all the way [was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 7:16", "text": "And the people went out, and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 7:17", "text": "And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 7:18", "text": "And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 7:19", "text": "And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat of it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 7:20", "text": "And so it happened to him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "2 Kings 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 8:1", "text": "Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wherever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 8:2", "text": "And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 8:3", "text": "And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house, and for her land." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 8:4", "text": "And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 8:5", "text": "And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 8:6", "text": "And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that [was] hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land even till now." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 8:7", "text": "And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told to him, saying, The man of God hath come hither." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 8:8", "text": "And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 8:9", "text": "So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 8:10", "text": "And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, Thou mayest certainly recover: but the LORD hath showed me, that he shall surely die." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 8:11", "text": "And he settled his countenance steadfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 8:12", "text": "And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 8:13", "text": "And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shown me that thou [wilt be] king over Syria." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 8:14", "text": "So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me [that] thou shouldest surely recover." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 8:15", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 8:16", "text": "And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 8:17", "text": "Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 8:18", "text": "And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 8:19", "text": "Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, [and] to his children." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 8:20", "text": "In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 8:21", "text": "So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites who encompassed him, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 8:22", "text": "Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 8:23", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 8:24", "text": "And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 8:25", "text": "In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 8:26", "text": "Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 8:27", "text": "And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he [was] the son-in-law of the house of Ahab." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 8:28", "text": "And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 8:29", "text": "And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "2 Kings 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 9:1", "text": "And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 9:2", "text": "And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 9:3", "text": "Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 9:4", "text": "So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 9:5", "text": "And when he came, behold, the captains of the host [were] sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us all? And he said, To thee, O captain." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 9:6", "text": "And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 9:7", "text": "And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 9:8", "text": "For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab the males, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 9:9", "text": "And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 9:10", "text": "And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened the door, and fled." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 9:11", "text": "Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and [one] said to him, [Is] all well? Why came this mad [man] to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man, and his communication." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 9:12", "text": "And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 9:13", "text": "Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 9:14", "text": "So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 9:15", "text": "But king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it is your minds, [then] let none go forth [nor] escape from the city to go to tell [it] in Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 9:16", "text": "So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 9:17", "text": "And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 9:18", "text": "So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he doth not return." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 9:19", "text": "Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 9:20", "text": "And the watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and doth not return? and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 9:21", "text": "And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 9:22", "text": "And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the lewd acts of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 9:23", "text": "And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, [There is] treachery, O Ahaziah." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 9:24", "text": "And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 9:25", "text": "Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and] cast him into the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 9:26", "text": "Surely I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 9:27", "text": "But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 9:28", "text": "And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers in the city of David." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 9:29", "text": "And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 9:30", "text": "And when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and adorned her head, and looked out at a window." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 9:31", "text": "And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri peace, who slew his master?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 9:32", "text": "And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 9:33", "text": "And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 9:34", "text": "And when he had come in, he ate, and drank, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king's daughter." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 9:35", "text": "And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 9:36", "text": "Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 9:37", "text": "And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, This [is] Jezebel." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "2 Kings 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 10:1", "text": "And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 10:2", "text": "Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 10:3", "text": "Look out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 10:4", "text": "But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 10:5", "text": "And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was] over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up [the children], sent to Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou [that which is] good in thy eyes." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 10:6", "text": "Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, if ye [are] mine, and [if] ye will hearken to my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king's sons [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, who brought them up." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 10:7", "text": "And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent [them] to him to Jezreel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 10:8", "text": "And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 10:9", "text": "And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [are] righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 10:10", "text": "Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD hath done [that] which he spoke by his servant Elijah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 10:11", "text": "So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsmen, and his priests, until he left him none remaining." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 10:12", "text": "And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And] as he [was] at the shearing-house in the way," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 10:13", "text": "Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 10:14", "text": "And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 10:15", "text": "And when he had departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thy heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart; And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it is, give [me] thy hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 10:16", "text": "And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 10:17", "text": "And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 10:18", "text": "And Jehu convened all the people, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 10:19", "text": "Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal: whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did [it] in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 10:20", "text": "And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed [it]." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 10:21", "text": "And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 10:22", "text": "And he said to him that [was] over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 10:23", "text": "And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said to the worshipers of Baal, Search, and look that there are here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshipers of Baal only." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 10:24", "text": "And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings, Jehu appointed eighty men without, and said, [If] any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, [he that letteth him go], his life [shall be] for the life of him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 10:25", "text": "And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast [them] out, and went to the city of the house of Baal." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 10:26", "text": "And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 10:27", "text": "And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house to this day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 10:28", "text": "Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 10:29", "text": "Yet [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Beth-el, and that [were] in Dan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 10:30", "text": "And the LORD said to Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing [that which is] right in my eyes, [and] hast done to the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in my heart, thy children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 10:31", "text": "But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 10:32", "text": "In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 10:33", "text": "From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 10:34", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 10:35", "text": "And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 10:36", "text": "And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria [was] twenty and eight years." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "2 Kings 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 11:1", "text": "And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 11:2", "text": "But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons [who were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in the bed-chamber, from Athaliah, so that he was not slain." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 11:3", "text": "And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 11:4", "text": "And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 11:5", "text": "And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 11:6", "text": "And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 11:7", "text": "And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 11:8", "text": "And ye shall compass the king around, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain. And be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 11:9", "text": "And the captains over the hundreds did according to all [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 11:10", "text": "And to the captains over hundreds the priest gave king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 11:11", "text": "And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, around the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, [along] by the altar and the temple." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 11:12", "text": "And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 11:13", "text": "And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 11:14", "text": "And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets. And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, treason." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 11:15", "text": "But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said to them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 11:16", "text": "And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 11:17", "text": "And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 11:18", "text": "And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images they broke wholly in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 11:19", "text": "And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 11:20", "text": "And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 11:21", "text": "Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "2 Kings 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 12:1", "text": "In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 12:2", "text": "And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 12:3", "text": "But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 12:4", "text": "And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 12:5", "text": "Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 12:6", "text": "But it was [so], [that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 12:7", "text": "Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said to them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 12:8", "text": "And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 12:9", "text": "But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put in it all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 12:10", "text": "And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and counted the money [that was] found in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 12:11", "text": "And they gave the money, being counted, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 12:12", "text": "And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 12:13", "text": "Yet, there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 12:14", "text": "But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired with it the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 12:15", "text": "Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 12:16", "text": "The trespass-money and sin-money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 12:17", "text": "Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 12:18", "text": "And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 12:19", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 12:20", "text": "And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 12:21", "text": "For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "2 Kings 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 13:1", "text": "In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 13:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 13:3", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 13:4", "text": "And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened to him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 13:5", "text": "(And the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as formerly." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 13:6", "text": "Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked in them: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 13:7", "text": "Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 13:8", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 13:9", "text": "And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 13:10", "text": "In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and he reigned] sixteen years." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 13:11", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he walked in them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 13:12", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 13:13", "text": "And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 13:14", "text": "Now Elisha had fallen sick of his disease of which he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 13:15", "text": "And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took to him bow and arrows." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 13:16", "text": "And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon the bow. And he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 13:17", "text": "And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened [it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou hast consumed [them]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 13:18", "text": "And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And he said to the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and ceased." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 13:19", "text": "And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 13:20", "text": "And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 13:21", "text": "And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 13:22", "text": "But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 13:23", "text": "And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he as yet reject them from his presence." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 13:24", "text": "So Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 13:25", "text": "And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash defeated him, and recovered the cities of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "2 Kings 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 14:1", "text": "In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 14:2", "text": "He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and [he] reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 14:3", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 14:4", "text": "But, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense on the high places." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 14:5", "text": "And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 14:6", "text": "But the children of the murderers he slew not: according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 14:7", "text": "He slew of Edom in the valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel to this day." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 14:8", "text": "Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 14:9", "text": "And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 14:10", "text": "Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldst thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldst fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 14:11", "text": "But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up: and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 14:12", "text": "And Judah was defeated before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 14:13", "text": "And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 14:14", "text": "And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 14:15", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 14:16", "text": "And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 14:17", "text": "And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 14:18", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 14:19", "text": "Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 14:20", "text": "And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 14:21", "text": "And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 14:22", "text": "He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 14:23", "text": "In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 14:24", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 14:25", "text": "He restored the border of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who [was] of Gath-hepher." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 14:26", "text": "For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 14:27", "text": "And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 14:28", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 14:29", "text": "And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "2 Kings 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 15:1", "text": "In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 15:2", "text": "Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 15:3", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 15:4", "text": "Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 15:5", "text": "And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son [was] over the house, judging the people of the land." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 15:6", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 15:7", "text": "So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 15:8", "text": "In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 15:9", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 15:10", "text": "And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 15:11", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 15:12", "text": "This [was] the word of the LORD which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth [generation]. And so it came to pass." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 15:13", "text": "Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 15:14", "text": "For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 15:15", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 15:16", "text": "Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] in it, and the borders of it from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him], therefore he smote [it]; [and] all the women in it that were with child he ripped up." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 15:17", "text": "In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned] ten years in Samaria." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 15:18", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 15:19", "text": "[And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 15:20", "text": "And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 15:21", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 15:22", "text": "And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 15:23", "text": "In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] two years." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 15:24", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 15:25", "text": "But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 15:26", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 15:27", "text": "In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 15:28", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 15:29", "text": "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 15:30", "text": "And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 15:31", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 15:32", "text": "In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 15:33", "text": "Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 15:34", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 15:35", "text": "Yet, the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 15:36", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 15:37", "text": "In those days the LORD began to send against Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Kings 15:38", "text": "And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: And Ahaz his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "2 Kings 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 16:1", "text": "In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 16:2", "text": "Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 16:3", "text": "But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 16:4", "text": "And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 16:5", "text": "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him]." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 16:6", "text": "At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and have dwelt there to this day." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 16:7", "text": "So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me from the hand of the king of Syria, and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 16:8", "text": "And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 16:9", "text": "And the king of Assyria hearkened to him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 16:10", "text": "And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 16:11", "text": "And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 16:12", "text": "And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 16:13", "text": "And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meat-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 16:14", "text": "And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 16:15", "text": "And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening meat-offering, and the king's burnt-sacrifice, and his meat-offering, with the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire [by]." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 16:16", "text": "Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 16:17", "text": "And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 16:18", "text": "And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, he turned from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 16:19", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 16:20", "text": "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "2 Kings 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 17:1", "text": "In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 17:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 17:3", "text": "Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 17:4", "text": "And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 17:5", "text": "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 17:6", "text": "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 17:7", "text": "For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 17:8", "text": "And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel which they had made." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 17:9", "text": "And the children of Israel did secretly things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 17:10", "text": "And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 17:11", "text": "And there they burnt incense on all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 17:12", "text": "For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 17:13", "text": "Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 17:14", "text": "Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 17:15", "text": "And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] around them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 17:16", "text": "And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 17:17", "text": "And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 17:18", "text": "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 17:19", "text": "Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 17:20", "text": "And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 17:21", "text": "For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 17:22", "text": "For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 17:23", "text": "Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 17:24", "text": "And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in its cities." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 17:25", "text": "And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 17:26", "text": "Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 17:27", "text": "Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 17:28", "text": "Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 17:29", "text": "Yet, every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they dwelt." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 17:30", "text": "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 17:31", "text": "And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 17:32", "text": "So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 17:33", "text": "They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 17:34", "text": "To this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 17:35", "text": "With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 17:36", "text": "But the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an out-stretched arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 17:37", "text": "And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Kings 17:38", "text": "And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Kings 17:39", "text": "But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 40, "name": "2 Kings 17:40", "text": "Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 41, "name": "2 Kings 17:41", "text": "So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "2 Kings 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 18:1", "text": "Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 18:2", "text": "Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 18:3", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 18:4", "text": "He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for till those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 18:5", "text": "He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 18:6", "text": "For he cleaved to the LORD, [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 18:7", "text": "And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 18:8", "text": "He smote the Philistines, [even] to Gaza, and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 18:9", "text": "And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 18:10", "text": "And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 18:11", "text": "And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 18:12", "text": "Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them]." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 18:13", "text": "Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 18:14", "text": "And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 18:15", "text": "And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 18:16", "text": "At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 18:17", "text": "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem: and they went up, and came to Jerusalem: and when they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 18:18", "text": "And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 18:19", "text": "And Rab-shakeh said to them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which thou trustest?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 18:20", "text": "Thou sayest, but [they are but] vain words, I [have] counsel and strength for the war. Now in whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 18:21", "text": "Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, [even] upon Egypt, on which if a man leaneth, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 18:22", "text": "But if ye say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 18:23", "text": "Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou shalt be able on thy part to set riders upon them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 18:24", "text": "How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 18:25", "text": "Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 18:26", "text": "Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah, to Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and talk not with us in the Jews language in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 18:27", "text": "But Rab-shakeh said to them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the wall, that they may feed on their vilest excretions with you?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 18:28", "text": "Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 18:29", "text": "Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 18:30", "text": "Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 18:31", "text": "Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 18:32", "text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-oil and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not to Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 18:33", "text": "Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 18:34", "text": "Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 18:35", "text": "Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 18:36", "text": "But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 18:37", "text": "Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "2 Kings 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 19:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 19:2", "text": "And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 19:3", "text": "And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children have come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 19:4", "text": "It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that are left." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 19:5", "text": "So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 19:6", "text": "And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 19:7", "text": "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 19:8", "text": "So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 19:9", "text": "And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Cush, Behold, he hath come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 19:10", "text": "Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 19:11", "text": "Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 19:12", "text": "Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who [were] in Thelasar?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 19:13", "text": "Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 19:14", "text": "And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 19:15", "text": "And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, who dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 19:16", "text": "LORD, bow down thy ear, and hear: open, LORD, thy eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 19:17", "text": "Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 19:18", "text": "And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 19:19", "text": "Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 19:20", "text": "Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 19:21", "text": "This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 19:22", "text": "Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high: [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 19:23", "text": "By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down its tall cedar trees, [and] its choice fir trees: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 19:24", "text": "I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 19:25", "text": "Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities [in] ruinous heaps." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 19:26", "text": "Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house-tops, and [as corn] blasted before it is grown up." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 19:27", "text": "But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 19:28", "text": "Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 19:29", "text": "And this [shall be] a sign to thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 19:30", "text": "And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 19:31", "text": "For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall do this." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 19:32", "text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 19:33", "text": "By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 19:34", "text": "For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 19:35", "text": "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 19:36", "text": "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 19:37", "text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "2 Kings 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 20:1", "text": "In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 20:2", "text": "Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 20:3", "text": "I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept grievously." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 20:4", "text": "And it came to pass, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 20:5", "text": "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 20:6", "text": "And I will add to thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 20:7", "text": "And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 20:8", "text": "And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 20:9", "text": "And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 20:10", "text": "And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 20:11", "text": "And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 20:12", "text": "At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 20:13", "text": "And Hezekiah hearkened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 20:14", "text": "Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country [even] from Babylon." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 20:15", "text": "And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All [the things] that [are] in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 20:16", "text": "And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 20:17", "text": "Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 20:18", "text": "And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 20:19", "text": "Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if peace and truth shall be in my days?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 20:20", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 20:21", "text": "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "2 Kings 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 21:1", "text": "Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hephzi-bah." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 21:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 21:3", "text": "For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 21:4", "text": "And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 21:5", "text": "And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 21:6", "text": "And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he committed much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 21:7", "text": "And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 21:8", "text": "Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 21:9", "text": "But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 21:10", "text": "And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 21:11", "text": "Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, [and] hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who [were] before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 21:12", "text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 21:13", "text": "And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 21:14", "text": "And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 21:15", "text": "Because they have done [that which was] evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 21:16", "text": "Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 21:17", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 21:18", "text": "And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 21:19", "text": "Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 21:20", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 21:21", "text": "And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 21:22", "text": "And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 21:23", "text": "And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 21:24", "text": "And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 21:25", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 21:26", "text": "And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "2 Kings 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 22:1", "text": "Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 22:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 22:3", "text": "And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 22:4", "text": "Go to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered from the people:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 22:5", "text": "And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work, which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 22:6", "text": "To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber, and hewn stone to repair the house." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 22:7", "text": "But there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 22:8", "text": "And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 22:9", "text": "And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 22:10", "text": "And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 22:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 22:12", "text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 22:13", "text": "Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 22:14", "text": "So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 22:15", "text": "And she said to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 22:16", "text": "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, [even] all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 22:17", "text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 22:18", "text": "But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 22:19", "text": "Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 22:20", "text": "Behold therefore, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thy eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "2 Kings 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 23:1", "text": "And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 23:2", "text": "And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 23:3", "text": "And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 23:4", "text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beth-el." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 23:5", "text": "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 23:6", "text": "And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder of it upon the graves of the children of the people." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 23:7", "text": "And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 23:8", "text": "And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and broke down the high places of the gates that [were] in the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which [were] on a man's left hand at the gate of the city." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 23:9", "text": "Nevertheless, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 23:10", "text": "And he defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 23:11", "text": "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 23:12", "text": "And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and broke [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 23:13", "text": "And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which [were] on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 23:14", "text": "And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 23:15", "text": "Moreover, the altar that [was] at Beth-el, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 23:16", "text": "And as Josiah turned himself, he espied the sepulchers that [were] there on the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 23:17", "text": "Then he said, What title [is] that which I see? And the men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulcher of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 23:18", "text": "And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 23:19", "text": "And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 23:20", "text": "And he slew all the priests of the high places, that [were] there upon the altars, and burnt men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 23:21", "text": "And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of this covenant." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 23:22", "text": "Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 23:23", "text": "But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [in which] this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 23:24", "text": "Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 23:25", "text": "And like him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there [any] like him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 23:26", "text": "Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 23:27", "text": "And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will reject this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 23:28", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 23:29", "text": "In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 23:30", "text": "And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Kings 23:31", "text": "Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Kings 23:32", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Kings 23:33", "text": "And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and subjected the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Kings 23:34", "text": "And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt and died there." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Kings 23:35", "text": "And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his taxation, to give [it] to Pharaoh-nechoh." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Kings 23:36", "text": "Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Kings 23:37", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "2 Kings 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 24:1", "text": "In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 24:2", "text": "And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 24:3", "text": "Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 24:4", "text": "And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 24:5", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 24:6", "text": "So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 24:7", "text": "And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 24:8", "text": "Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 24:9", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 24:10", "text": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 24:11", "text": "And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 24:12", "text": "And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 24:13", "text": "And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 24:14", "text": "And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, [even] ten thousand captives, and all the artificers, and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 24:15", "text": "And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 24:16", "text": "And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and artificers and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and] apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 24:17", "text": "And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 24:18", "text": "Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 24:19", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 24:20", "text": "For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "2 Kings 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Kings 25:1", "text": "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it on all sides." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Kings 25:2", "text": "And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Kings 25:3", "text": "And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Kings 25:4", "text": "And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city on all sides:) and [the king] went the way towards the plain." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Kings 25:5", "text": "And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Kings 25:6", "text": "So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Kings 25:7", "text": "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Kings 25:8", "text": "And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Kings 25:9", "text": "And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house he burnt with fire." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Kings 25:10", "text": "And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem on all sides." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Kings 25:11", "text": "Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Kings 25:12", "text": "But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vine-dressers and husbandmen." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Kings 25:13", "text": "And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Kings 25:14", "text": "And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, they took away." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Kings 25:15", "text": "And the fire-pans, and the bowls, [and] such things as [were] of gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the captain of the guard took away." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Kings 25:16", "text": "The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Kings 25:17", "text": "The hight of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the capital upon it [was] brass: and the hight of the capital three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the capital around, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with wreathen work." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Kings 25:18", "text": "And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Kings 25:19", "text": "And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land [that were] found in the city:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Kings 25:20", "text": "And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Kings 25:21", "text": "And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Kings 25:22", "text": "And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Kings 25:23", "text": "And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of Maachathite, they and their men." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Kings 25:24", "text": "And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said to them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Kings 25:25", "text": "But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Kings 25:26", "text": "And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Kings 25:27", "text": "And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Kings 25:28", "text": "And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Kings 25:29", "text": "And changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Kings 25:30", "text": "And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him by the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:1", "text": "Adam, Sheth, Enosh," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:2", "text": "Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:3", "text": "Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:4", "text": "Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:5", "text": "The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:6", "text": "And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:7", "text": "And the sons of Javan; Elisha, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:8", "text": "The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:9", "text": "And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:10", "text": "And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be mighty upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:11", "text": "And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:12", "text": "And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:13", "text": "And Canaan begat Zidon his first-born, and Heth," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:14", "text": "The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:15", "text": "And the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Sinite," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:16", "text": "And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:17", "text": "The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:18", "text": "And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:19", "text": "And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one [was] Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name [was] Joktan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:20", "text": "And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:21", "text": "Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:22", "text": "And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:23", "text": "And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these [were] the sons of Joktan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:24", "text": "Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:25", "text": "Eber, Peleg, Reu," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:26", "text": "Serug, Nahor, Terah," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:27", "text": "Abram; the same [is] Abraham." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:28", "text": "The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:29", "text": "These [are] their generations. The first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:30", "text": "Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:31", "text": "Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:32", "text": "Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:33", "text": "And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these [are] the sons of Keturah," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:34", "text": "And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:35", "text": "The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:36", "text": "The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:37", "text": "The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:38", "text": "And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:39", "text": "And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna [was] Lotan's sister." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:40", "text": "The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:41", "text": "The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:42", "text": "The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, [and] Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:43", "text": "Now these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before [any] king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:44", "text": "And when Bela was dead Jobab the son of Zera of Bozrah reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:45", "text": "And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:46", "text": "And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was] Avith." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:47", "text": "And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:48", "text": "And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:49", "text": "And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:50", "text": "And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was] Pai; and his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:51", "text": "Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timna, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:52", "text": "Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:53", "text": "Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 54, "name": "1 Chronicles 1:54", "text": "Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These [are] the dukes of Edom." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:1", "text": "These [are] the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:2", "text": "Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:3", "text": "The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:4", "text": "And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah [were] five." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:5", "text": "The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:6", "text": "And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:7", "text": "And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:8", "text": "And the sons of Ethan; Azariah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:9", "text": "The sons also of Hezron, that were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:10", "text": "And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:11", "text": "And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:12", "text": "And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:13", "text": "And Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:14", "text": "Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:15", "text": "Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:16", "text": "Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:17", "text": "And Abigail bore Amasa: and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmaelite." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:18", "text": "And Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:19", "text": "And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore to him Hur," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:20", "text": "And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:21", "text": "And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he [was] sixty years old; and she bore him Segub." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:22", "text": "And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:23", "text": "And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its towns, [even] sixty cities. All these [belonged to] the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:24", "text": "And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bore him Ashur the father of Tekoa." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:25", "text": "And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were, Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, [and] Ahijah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:26", "text": "Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the mother of Onam." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:27", "text": "And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:28", "text": "And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:29", "text": "And the name of the wife of Abishur [was] Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:30", "text": "And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:31", "text": "And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:32", "text": "And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:33", "text": "And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:34", "text": "Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Jarha." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:35", "text": "And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant for a wife; and she bore him Attai." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:36", "text": "And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:37", "text": "And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:38", "text": "And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:39", "text": "And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:40", "text": "And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:41", "text": "And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:42", "text": "Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel [were], Mesha his first-born, who [was] the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:43", "text": "And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:44", "text": "And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:45", "text": "And the son of Shammai [was] Maon: and Maon [was] the father of Beth-zur." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:46", "text": "And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:47", "text": "And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:48", "text": "Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber, and Tirhanah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:49", "text": "She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsah." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:50", "text": "These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:51", "text": "Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:52", "text": "And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, [and] half of the Manahethites." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:53", "text": "And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zereathites, and the Eshtaulites." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 54, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:54", "text": "The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Menahethites, the Zorites." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 55, "name": "1 Chronicles 2:55", "text": "And the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, [and] Suchathites. These [are] the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:1", "text": "Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron; the first-born Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:2", "text": "The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:3", "text": "The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:4", "text": "[These] six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:5", "text": "And these were born to him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:6", "text": "Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:7", "text": "And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:8", "text": "And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:9", "text": "[These were] all the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:10", "text": "And Solomon's son [was] Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:11", "text": "Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:12", "text": "Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:13", "text": "Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:14", "text": "Amon his son, Josiah his son." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:15", "text": "And the sons of Josiah [were], the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:16", "text": "And the sons of Jehoiakim; Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:17", "text": "And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:18", "text": "Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:19", "text": "And the sons of Pedaiah [were], Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:20", "text": "And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:21", "text": "And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:22", "text": "And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:23", "text": "And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 3:24", "text": "And the sons of Elioenai [were], Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:1", "text": "The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:2", "text": "And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These [are] the families of the Zorathites." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:3", "text": "And these [were of] the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister [was] Hazelelponi:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:4", "text": "And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These [are] the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:5", "text": "And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:6", "text": "And Naarah bore him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These [were] the sons of Naarah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:7", "text": "And the sons of Helah [were], Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:8", "text": "And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:9", "text": "And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:10", "text": "And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep [me] from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:11", "text": "And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, who [was] the father of Eshton." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:12", "text": "And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These [are] the men of Rechah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:13", "text": "And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:14", "text": "And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were artificers." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:15", "text": "And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:16", "text": "And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:17", "text": "And the sons of Ezra [were], Jethur, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:18", "text": "And his wife Jehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these [are] the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh whom Mered took." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:19", "text": "And the sons of [his] wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:20", "text": "And the sons of Shimon [were], Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi [were], Zoheth, and Benzoheth." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:21", "text": "The sons of Shelah the son of Judah [were], Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:22", "text": "And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And [these are] ancient things." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:23", "text": "These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:24", "text": "The sons of Simeon [were] Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, [and] Shaul:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:25", "text": "Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:26", "text": "And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:27", "text": "And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like the children of Judah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:28", "text": "And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:29", "text": "And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:30", "text": "And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:31", "text": "And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-birei, and at Shaaraim. These [were] their cities to the reign of David." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:32", "text": "And their villages [were], Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:33", "text": "And all their villages that [were] around the same cities to Baal. These [were] their habitations, and their genealogy." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:34", "text": "And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:35", "text": "And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:36", "text": "And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:37", "text": "And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:38", "text": "These mentioned by [their] names [were] princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:39", "text": "And they went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:40", "text": "And they found rich pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:41", "text": "And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and dwelt in their room: because [there was] pasture there for their flocks." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:42", "text": "And [some] of them, [even] of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 4:43", "text": "And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and have dwelt there to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:1", "text": "Now the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel, (for he [was] the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birth-right was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birth-right." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:2", "text": "For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him [came] the chief ruler; but the birth-right [was] Joseph's:)" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:3", "text": "The sons, [I say], of Reuben the first-born of Israel [were], Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:4", "text": "The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:5", "text": "Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:6", "text": "Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away [captive]: he [was] prince of the Reubenites." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:7", "text": "And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, [were] the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:8", "text": "And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even to Nebo, and Baal-meon:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:9", "text": "And eastward he inhabited to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:10", "text": "And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east [land] of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:11", "text": "And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salcah:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:12", "text": "Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:13", "text": "And their brethren of the house of their fathers [were], Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:14", "text": "These [are] the children 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;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:15", "text": "Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:16", "text": "And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:17", "text": "All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:18", "text": "The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, [were] four and forty thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the war." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:19", "text": "And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:20", "text": "And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that [were] with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated by them; because they put their trust in him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:21", "text": "And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:22", "text": "For there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:23", "text": "And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir, and to mount Hermon." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:24", "text": "And these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, [and] heads of the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:25", "text": "And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 5:26", "text": "And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:1", "text": "The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:2", "text": "And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:3", "text": "And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:4", "text": "Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:5", "text": "And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:6", "text": "And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:7", "text": "Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:8", "text": "And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:9", "text": "And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:10", "text": "And Johanan begat Azariah, (he [it is] that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:11", "text": "And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:12", "text": "And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:13", "text": "And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:14", "text": "And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:15", "text": "And Jehozadak went [into captivity], when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:16", "text": "The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:17", "text": "And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:18", "text": "And the sons of Kohath [were], Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:19", "text": "The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these [are] the families of the Levites according to their fathers." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:20", "text": "Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:21", "text": "Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:22", "text": "The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:23", "text": "Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:24", "text": "Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:25", "text": "And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:26", "text": "[As for] Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:27", "text": "Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:28", "text": "And the sons of Samuel; the first-born Vashni, and Abiah." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:29", "text": "The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:30", "text": "Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:31", "text": "And these [are they] whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:32", "text": "And they ministered before the dwelling-place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and [then] they waited on their office, according to their order." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:33", "text": "And these [are] they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:34", "text": "The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:35", "text": "The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:36", "text": "The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:37", "text": "The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:38", "text": "The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:39", "text": "And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:40", "text": "The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:41", "text": "The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:42", "text": "The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:43", "text": "The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:44", "text": "And their brethren the sons of Merari [stood] on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:45", "text": "The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:46", "text": "The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:47", "text": "The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 48, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:48", "text": "Their brethren also the Levites [were] appointed to all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 49, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:49", "text": "But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of incense, [and were appointed] for all the work of the [place] most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 50, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:50", "text": "And these [are] the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 51, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:51", "text": "Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 52, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:52", "text": "Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 53, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:53", "text": "Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 54, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:54", "text": "Now these [are] their dwelling-places throughout their castles in their limits, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 55, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:55", "text": "And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 56, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:56", "text": "But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 57, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:57", "text": "And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron, [the city] of refuge, and Libnah with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 58, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:58", "text": "And Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 59, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:59", "text": "And Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 60, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:60", "text": "And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with its suburbs, and Alemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families [were] thirteen cities." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 61, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:61", "text": "And to the sons of Kohath [who were] left of the family of that tribe, [were cities given] out of the half tribe, [namely], [out of] the half [tribe] of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 62, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:62", "text": "And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families [were given] 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 cities." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 63, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:63", "text": "To the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 64, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:64", "text": "And the children of Israel gave to the Levites [these] cities with their suburbs." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 65, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:65", "text": "And they gave by lot 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 cities, which are called by [their] names." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 66, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:66", "text": "And [the residue] of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 67, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:67", "text": "And they gave to them, [of] the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with its suburbs; [they gave] also Gezer with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 68, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:68", "text": "And Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 69, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:69", "text": "And Ajalon with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 70, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:70", "text": "And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 71, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:71", "text": "To the sons of Gershom [were given] out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 72, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:72", "text": "And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 73, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:73", "text": "And Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 74, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:74", "text": "And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 75, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:75", "text": "And Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 76, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:76", "text": "And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kirjathaim with its suburbs." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 77, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:77", "text": "To the rest of the children of Merari [were given] out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 78, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:78", "text": "And on the other side of Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, [were given them] out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 79, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:79", "text": "Kedemoth also with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 80, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:80", "text": "And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 81, "name": "1 Chronicles 6:81", "text": "And Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:1", "text": "Now the sons of Issachar, [were], Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:2", "text": "And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:3", "text": "And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishaiah, five: all of them chief men." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:4", "text": "And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, [were] bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand [men]: for they had many wives and sons." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:5", "text": "And their brethren among all the families of Issachar [were] valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies eighty and seven thousand." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:6", "text": "[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:7", "text": "And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of [their] fathers, mighty men of valor; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:8", "text": "And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these [are] the sons of Becher." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:9", "text": "And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, [was] twenty thousand and two hundred." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:10", "text": "The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:11", "text": "All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go out for war [and] battle." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:12", "text": "Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of Aher." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:13", "text": "The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:14", "text": "The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bore: ([but] his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:15", "text": "And Machir took for a wife [the sister] of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name [was] Maachah;) and the name of the second [was] Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:16", "text": "And Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother [was] Sheresh; and his sons [were] Ulam, and Rakem." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:17", "text": "And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These [were] the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:18", "text": "And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:19", "text": "And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:20", "text": "And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:21", "text": "And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath [that were] born in [that] land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:22", "text": "And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:23", "text": "And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:24", "text": "(And his daughter [was] Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:25", "text": "And Rephah [was] his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:26", "text": "Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:27", "text": "Non his son, Jehoshua his son." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:28", "text": "And their possessions and habitations [were], Beth-el, and its towns, and eastward Naaram, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Gaza and its towns:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:29", "text": "And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:30", "text": "The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishua, and Beriah, and Serah their sister." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:31", "text": "And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who [is] the father of Birzavith." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:32", "text": "And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:33", "text": "And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These [are] the children of Japhlet." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:34", "text": "And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:35", "text": "And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:36", "text": "The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:37", "text": "Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:38", "text": "And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:39", "text": "And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 7:40", "text": "All these [were] the children of Asher, heads of [their] father's house, choice [and] mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were fit for war [and] for battle [was] twenty and six thousand men." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:1", "text": "Now Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:2", "text": "Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:3", "text": "And the sons of Bela were Addar, and Gera, and Abihud," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:4", "text": "And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:5", "text": "And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:6", "text": "And these [are] the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:7", "text": "And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:8", "text": "And Shaharaim begat [children] in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara [were] his wives." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:9", "text": "And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:10", "text": "And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These [were] his sons, heads of the fathers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:11", "text": "And of Hushim he begat Ahitub, and Elpaal." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:12", "text": "The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with its town:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:13", "text": "Beriah also, and Shema, who [were] heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Ajalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:14", "text": "And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:15", "text": "And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:16", "text": "And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:17", "text": "And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:18", "text": "Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:19", "text": "And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:20", "text": "And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:21", "text": "And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:22", "text": "And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:23", "text": "And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:24", "text": "And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:25", "text": "And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:26", "text": "And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:27", "text": "And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:28", "text": "These [were] heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief [men]. These dwelt in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:29", "text": "And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name [was] Maachah:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:30", "text": "And his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:31", "text": "And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:32", "text": "And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:33", "text": "And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:34", "text": "And the son of Jonathan [was] Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:35", "text": "And the sons of Micah [were], Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:36", "text": "And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:37", "text": "And Moza begat Bineah: Rapha [was] his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:38", "text": "And Azel had six sons, whose names [are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these [were] the sons of Azel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:39", "text": "And the sons of Eshek his brother [were], Ulam his first-born, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 8:40", "text": "And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons a hundred and fifty. All these [are] of the sons of Benjamin." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:1", "text": "So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and behold, they [were] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, [who] were carried away to Babylon for their transgression." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:2", "text": "Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:3", "text": "And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:4", "text": "Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:5", "text": "And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the first-born, and his sons." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:6", "text": "And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:7", "text": "And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:8", "text": "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;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:9", "text": "And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men [were] chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:10", "text": "And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:11", "text": "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;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:12", "text": "And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:13", "text": "And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:14", "text": "And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:15", "text": "And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:16", "text": "And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:17", "text": "And the porters [were] Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum [was] the chief;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:18", "text": "Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:19", "text": "And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:20", "text": "And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, [and] the LORD [was] with him." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:21", "text": "[And] Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:22", "text": "All these [who were] chosen to be porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their set office." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:23", "text": "So they and their children [had] the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, [namely], the house of the tabernacle, by wards." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:24", "text": "In four quarters were the porters, towards the east, west, north and south." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:25", "text": "And their brethren, [who were] in their villages, [were] to come after seven days from time to time with them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:26", "text": "For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in [their] set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:27", "text": "And they lodged about the house of God, because the charge [was] upon them, and the opening of it every morning [pertained] to them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:28", "text": "And [certain] of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by number." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:29", "text": "[Some] of them also [were] appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:30", "text": "And [some] of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:31", "text": "And Mattithiah, [one] of the Levites, who [was] the first-born of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:32", "text": "And [others] of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, [were] over the show-bread, to prepare [it] every sabbath." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:33", "text": "And these [are] the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, [who remaining] in the chambers [were] free: for they were employed in [that] work day and night." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:34", "text": "These chief fathers of the Levites [were] chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:35", "text": "And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name [was] Maachah:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:36", "text": "And his first-born son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:37", "text": "And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:38", "text": "And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:39", "text": "And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:40", "text": "And the son of Jonathan [was] Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:41", "text": "And the sons of Micah [were], Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, [and Ahaz]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:42", "text": "And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:43", "text": "And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Chronicles 9:44", "text": "And Azel had six sons, whose names [are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these [were] the sons of Azel." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:1", "text": "Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:2", "text": "And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:3", "text": "And the battle prevailed against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded by the archers." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:4", "text": "Then said Saul to his armor-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:5", "text": "And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:6", "text": "So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:7", "text": "And when all the men of Israel that [were] in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:8", "text": "And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:9", "text": "And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines around, to carry tidings to their idols, and to the people." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:10", "text": "And they put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:11", "text": "And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:12", "text": "They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:13", "text": "So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to inquire [of it];" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 10:14", "text": "And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:1", "text": "Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:2", "text": "And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou [wast] he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:3", "text": "Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:4", "text": "And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which [is] Jebus; where the Jebusites [were], the inhabitants of the land." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:5", "text": "And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which [is] the city of David." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:6", "text": "And David said, Whoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was chief." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:7", "text": "And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it, The city of David." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:8", "text": "And he built the city around, even from Millo around: and Joab repaired the rest of the city." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:9", "text": "So David became greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts [was] with him." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:10", "text": "These also [are] the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, [and] with all Israel, to make him king according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:11", "text": "And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam a Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted his spear against three hundred slain [by him] at one time." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:12", "text": "And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who [was one] of the three mighties." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:13", "text": "He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:14", "text": "And they set themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved [them] by a great deliverance." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:15", "text": "Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:16", "text": "And David [was] then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison [was] then at Beth-lehem." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:17", "text": "And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that [is] at the gate!" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:18", "text": "And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: but David would not drink [of] it, but poured it out to the LORD," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:19", "text": "And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:20", "text": "And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting his spear against three hundred, he slew [them], and had a name among the three." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:21", "text": "Of the three, he was more honorable than the two; for he was their captain: but he attained not to the [first] three." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:22", "text": "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lion-like men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:23", "text": "And he slew an Egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand [was] a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:24", "text": "These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:25", "text": "Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:26", "text": "Also the valiant men of the armies [were], Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:27", "text": "Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:28", "text": "Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:29", "text": "Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:30", "text": "Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:31", "text": "Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, [that pertained] to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:32", "text": "Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:33", "text": "Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:34", "text": "The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:35", "text": "Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphel the son of Ur," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:36", "text": "Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:37", "text": "Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:38", "text": "Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:39", "text": "Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:40", "text": "Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:41", "text": "Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:42", "text": "Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:43", "text": "Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:44", "text": "Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:45", "text": "Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 46, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:46", "text": "Eliel the Mehavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 47, "name": "1 Chronicles 11:47", "text": "Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:1", "text": "Now these [are] they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they [were] among the mighty men, helpers of the war." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:2", "text": "[They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones, and [shooting] arrows from a bow, [even] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:3", "text": "The chief [was] Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:4", "text": "And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:5", "text": "Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:6", "text": "Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:7", "text": "And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:8", "text": "And of the Gadites there separated themselves to David in the hold in the wilderness men of might, [and] men of war [fit] for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces [were like] the faces of lions, and [were] as swift as the roes upon the mountains;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:9", "text": "Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:10", "text": "Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:11", "text": "Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:12", "text": "Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:13", "text": "Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:14", "text": "These [were] of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least [was] over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:15", "text": "These [are] they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] towards the east, and towards the west." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:16", "text": "And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold to David." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:17", "text": "And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If ye have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you: but if [ye have come] to betray me to my enemies, seeing [there is] no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look [on it], and rebuke [it]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:18", "text": "Then the spirit came upon Amasai, [who was] chief of the captains, [and he said], Thine [are we], David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace [be] to thee, and peace [be] to thy helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:19", "text": "And there fell [some] of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to [the jeopardy of] our heads." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:20", "text": "And as he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that [were] of Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:21", "text": "And they helped David against the band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:22", "text": "For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of God." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:23", "text": "And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that were] ready armed to the war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:24", "text": "The children of Judah that bore shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed for war." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:25", "text": "Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for war, seven thousand and one hundred." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:26", "text": "Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:27", "text": "And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand and seven hundred;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:28", "text": "And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:29", "text": "And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:30", "text": "And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous throughout the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:31", "text": "And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressed by name, to come and make David king." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:32", "text": "And of the children of Issachar, [who were men] that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at their command." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:33", "text": "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, who could keep rank: [they were] not of double heart." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:34", "text": "And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:35", "text": "And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:36", "text": "And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:37", "text": "And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty thousand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:38", "text": "All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel [were] of one heart to make David king." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:39", "text": "And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 12:40", "text": "Moreover, they that were nigh them, [even] to Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, [and] provision, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for [there was] joy in Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:1", "text": "And David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, [and] with every leader." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:2", "text": "And David said to all the congregation of Israel, If [it seemeth] good to you, and [that it is] of the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brethren every where, [that are] left in all the land of Israel, and with them [also] to the priests and Levites [who are] in their cities [and] suburbs, that they may assemble to us:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:3", "text": "And let us bring again to us the ark of our God: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:4", "text": "And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:5", "text": "So David assembled all Israel, from Shihor of Egypt even to the entrance of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:6", "text": "And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kirjath-jearim, which [belonged] to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth [between] the cherubim, whose name is called [on it]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:7", "text": "And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:8", "text": "And David and all Israel played before God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:9", "text": "And when they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:10", "text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:11", "text": "And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:12", "text": "And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God [home] to me?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:13", "text": "So David brought not the ark to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 13:14", "text": "And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:1", "text": "Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:2", "text": "And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was exalted on high, because of his people Israel." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:3", "text": "And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:4", "text": "Now these [are] the names of [his] children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:5", "text": "And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:6", "text": "And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:7", "text": "And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:8", "text": "And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard [of it], and went out against them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:9", "text": "And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:10", "text": "And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the LORD said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:11", "text": "So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon my enemies by my hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:12", "text": "And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:13", "text": "And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:14", "text": "Therefore David inquired again of God: and God said to him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:15", "text": "And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, then thou shalt go out to battle: for God hath gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:16", "text": "David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 14:17", "text": "And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:1", "text": "And [David] made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:2", "text": "Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him for ever." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:3", "text": "And David assembled all Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:4", "text": "And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:5", "text": "Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:6", "text": "Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:7", "text": "Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:8", "text": "Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:9", "text": "Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:10", "text": "Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twelve." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:11", "text": "And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:12", "text": "And said to them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to [the place that] I have prepared for it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:13", "text": "For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:14", "text": "So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:15", "text": "And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staffs on it, as Moses commanded, according to the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:16", "text": "And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers with instruments of music, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:17", "text": "So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:18", "text": "And with them their brethren of the second [degree], Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:19", "text": "So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with cymbals of brass;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:20", "text": "And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:21", "text": "And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:22", "text": "And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skillful." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:23", "text": "And Berechiah and Elkanah [were] door-keepers for the ark." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:24", "text": "And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah [were] door-keepers for the ark." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:25", "text": "So David and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with joy." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:26", "text": "And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:27", "text": "And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:28", "text": "Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 15:29", "text": "And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:1", "text": "So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt-sacrifices and peace-offerings before God." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:2", "text": "And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offerings and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:3", "text": "And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon [of wine]." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:4", "text": "And he appointed [certain] of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:5", "text": "Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:6", "text": "Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:7", "text": "Then on that day David delivered first [this psalm] to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:8", "text": "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:9", "text": "Sing to him, sing psalms to him, talk ye of all his wonderous works." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:10", "text": "Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:11", "text": "Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:12", "text": "Remember his wonderful works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:13", "text": "O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:14", "text": "He [is] the LORD our God; his judgments [are] in all the earth." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:15", "text": "Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:16", "text": "[Even of the covenant] which he made with Abraham, and of his oath to Isaac;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:17", "text": "And which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:18", "text": "Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:19", "text": "When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:20", "text": "And [when] they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:21", "text": "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:22", "text": "[Saying], Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:23", "text": "Sing to the LORD, all the earth; show forth from day to day his salvation." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:24", "text": "Declare his glory among the heathen; his wonderful works among all nations." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:25", "text": "For great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also [is] to be feared above all gods." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:26", "text": "For all the gods of the people [are] idols: but the LORD made the heavens." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:27", "text": "Glory and honor [are] in his presence; strength and gladness [are] in his place." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:28", "text": "Give to the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give to the LORD glory and strength." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:29", "text": "Give to the LORD the glory [due] to his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:30", "text": "Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:31", "text": "Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let [men] say among the nations, The LORD reigneth." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:32", "text": "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that [is] therein." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:33", "text": "Then shall the trees of the wood sing at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:34", "text": "O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:35", "text": "And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, [and] glory in thy praise." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:36", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 37, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:37", "text": "So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 38, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:38", "text": "And Obed-edom with their brethren, sixty and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [to be] porters:" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 39, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:39", "text": "And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that [was] at Gibeon," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 40, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:40", "text": "To offer burnt-offerings to the LORD upon the altar of the burnt-offering continually morning and evening, and [to do] according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 41, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:41", "text": "And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 42, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:42", "text": "And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun [were] porters." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 43, "name": "1 Chronicles 16:43", "text": "And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:1", "text": "Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under curtains." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:2", "text": "Then Nathan said to David, Do all that [is] in thy heart; for God [is] with thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:3", "text": "And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:4", "text": "Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:5", "text": "For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:6", "text": "Wherever I have walked with all Israel, have I spoken a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedars?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:7", "text": "Now therefore thus shalt thou say to my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheep-cote, [even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldst be ruler over my people Israel:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:8", "text": "And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thy enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that [are] in the earth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:9", "text": "Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:10", "text": "And since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel. Moreover, I will subdue all thy enemies. Furthermore, I tell thee that the LORD will build thee a house." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:11", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when thy days shall be ended that thou must go [to be] with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, who shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:12", "text": "He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:13", "text": "I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took [it] from [him] that was before thee:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:14", "text": "But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:15", "text": "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:16", "text": "And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:17", "text": "And [yet] this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God; for thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:18", "text": "What can David [speak] more to thee for the honor of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:19", "text": "O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thy own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:20", "text": "O LORD, [there] is none like thee, neither [is there any] God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:21", "text": "And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem [to be] his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:22", "text": "For thy people Israel didst thou make thy own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:23", "text": "Therefore now, LORD, Let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:24", "text": "Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David thy servant [be] established before thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:25", "text": "For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him a house: therefore thy servant hath found [in his heart] to pray before thee." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:26", "text": "And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness to thy servant:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 17:27", "text": "Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and [it shall be] blessed for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:1", "text": "Now after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:2", "text": "And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:3", "text": "And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:4", "text": "And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot-[horses], but reserved of them a hundred chariots." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:5", "text": "And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:6", "text": "Then David put [garrisons] in Syria-damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:7", "text": "And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:8", "text": "Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, David brought very much brass, with which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:9", "text": "Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:10", "text": "He sent Hadoram his son to king David to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had warred with Tou;) and [with him] all manner of vessels of gold, and silver, and brass." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:11", "text": "Them also king David dedicated to the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:12", "text": "Moreover, Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:13", "text": "And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:14", "text": "So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:15", "text": "And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:16", "text": "And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 18:17", "text": "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David [were] chief about the king." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:1", "text": "Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:2", "text": "And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:3", "text": "But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comforters to thee? are not his servants come to thee to search, and to overthrow, and to explore the land?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:4", "text": "Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:5", "text": "Then there went [certain], and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards are grown, and [then] return." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:6", "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:7", "text": "So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon assembled from their cities, and came to battle." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:8", "text": "And when David heard [of it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:9", "text": "And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that had come [were] by themselves in the field." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:10", "text": "Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he selected all the choice of Israel, and put [them] in array against the Syrians." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:11", "text": "And the rest of the people he delivered to the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set [themselves] in array against the children of Ammon." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:12", "text": "And he said, If the Syrians shall be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon shall be too strong for thee, then I will help thee." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:13", "text": "Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:14", "text": "So Joab and the people that [were] with him drew nigh before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:15", "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:16", "text": "And when the Syrians saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:17", "text": "And it was told to David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set [the battle] in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:18", "text": "But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand [men who fought in] chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 19:19", "text": "And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:1", "text": "And it came to pass, that after the year had expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:2", "text": "And David took the crown of their king from his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and [there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also a great quantity of spoil out of the city." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:3", "text": "And he brought out the people that [were] in it, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so David dealt with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:4", "text": "And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, [that was] of the children of the giant: and they were subdued." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:5", "text": "And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff [was] like a weaver's beam." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:6", "text": "And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:7", "text": "But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 20:8", "text": "These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:1", "text": "And Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:2", "text": "And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:3", "text": "And Joab answered, the LORD make his people a hundred times more numerous than they [are]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:4", "text": "Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:5", "text": "And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:6", "text": "But Levi and Benjamin he counted not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:7", "text": "And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:8", "text": "And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:9", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:10", "text": "Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee [three] things; choose thee one of them, that I may do [it] to thee." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:11", "text": "So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:12", "text": "Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while the sword of thy enemies overtaketh [thee]; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:13", "text": "And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great [are] his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:14", "text": "So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:15", "text": "And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thy hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:16", "text": "And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of Israel], [who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:17", "text": "And David said to God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be afflicted." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:18", "text": "Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and erect an altar to the LORD in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:19", "text": "And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:20", "text": "And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:21", "text": "And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked, and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:22", "text": "Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshing-floor, that I may build an altar in it to the LORD: thou shalt grant it to me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:23", "text": "And Ornan said to David, Take [it] to thee, and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat-offering; I give it all." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:24", "text": "And king David said to Ornan, No; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt-offerings without cost." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:25", "text": "So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:26", "text": "And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:27", "text": "And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:28", "text": "At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:29", "text": "For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 21:30", "text": "But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:1", "text": "Then David said, This [is] the house of the LORD God, and this [is] the altar of the burnt-offering for Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:2", "text": "And David commanded to assemble the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:3", "text": "And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:4", "text": "Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:5", "text": "And David said, Solomon my son [is] young and tender, and the house [that is] to be built for the LORD [must be] very magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will [therefore] now make preparation for it. So David made abundant preparation before his death." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:6", "text": "Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:7", "text": "And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of the LORD my God:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:8", "text": "But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build a house to my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:9", "text": "Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies around: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:10", "text": "He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I [will be] his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:11", "text": "Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:12", "text": "Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:13", "text": "Then shalt thou prosper, if thou shalt take heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:14", "text": "Now behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add to them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:15", "text": "Moreover, [there are] workmen with thee in great numbers, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of skillful men for every manner of work." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:16", "text": "Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, [there is] no number. Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:17", "text": "David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:18", "text": "[Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not] given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 22:19", "text": "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise, therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:1", "text": "So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:2", "text": "And he assembled all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:3", "text": "Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:4", "text": "Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:5", "text": "Moreover, four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [with them]." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:6", "text": "And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely], Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:7", "text": "Of the Gershonites, [were], Laadan and Shimei." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:8", "text": "The sons of Laadan: the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:9", "text": "The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:10", "text": "And the sons of Shimei [were], Jahath, Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These four [were] the sons of Shimei." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:11", "text": "And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to [their] father's house." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:12", "text": "The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:13", "text": "The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name for ever." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:14", "text": "Now [concerning] Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:15", "text": "The sons of Moses [were], Gershom, and Eliezer." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:16", "text": "Of the sons of Gershom; Shebuel [was] the chief." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:17", "text": "And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:18", "text": "Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:19", "text": "Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jehaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:20", "text": "Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first, and Jesiah the second." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:21", "text": "The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:22", "text": "And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:23", "text": "The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:24", "text": "These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:25", "text": "For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest to his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever;" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:26", "text": "And also to the Levites: they shall no [more] carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for its service." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:27", "text": "For by the last words of David the Levites [were] numbered from twenty years old and above:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:28", "text": "Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:29", "text": "Both for the show-bread, and for the fine flour for meat-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is baked in] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:30", "text": "And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at evening;" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:31", "text": "And to offer all burnt-sacrifices to the LORD on the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded to them, continually before the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 23:32", "text": "And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy [place], and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:1", "text": "Now [these are] the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:2", "text": "But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priests' office." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:3", "text": "And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:4", "text": "And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar [there were] sixteen chief men of the house of [their] fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:5", "text": "Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors [of the house] of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:6", "text": "And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, [one] of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and [before] the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and [one] taken for Ithamar." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:7", "text": "Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:8", "text": "The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:9", "text": "The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:10", "text": "The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:11", "text": "The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:12", "text": "The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:13", "text": "The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:14", "text": "The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:15", "text": "The seventeenth to Hezer, the eighteenth to Aphses," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:16", "text": "The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:17", "text": "The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul," }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:18", "text": "The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:19", "text": "These [were] the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:20", "text": "And the rest of the sons of Levi [were these]: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:21", "text": "Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first [was] Isshiah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:22", "text": "Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:23", "text": "And the sons [of Hebron]; Jeriah [the first], Amariah the second, Jehaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:24", "text": "[Of] the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:25", "text": "The brother of Michah [was] Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:26", "text": "The sons of Merari [were] Mahli, and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:27", "text": "The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:28", "text": "Of Mahli [came] Eleazar, who had no sons." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:29", "text": "Concerning Kish: the son of Kish [was] Jerahmeel." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:30", "text": "The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 24:31", "text": "These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:1", "text": "Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:2", "text": "Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, who prophesied according to the order of the king." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:3", "text": "Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:4", "text": "Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, [and] Mahazioth:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:5", "text": "All these [were] the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:6", "text": "All these [were] under the hands of their father for song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:7", "text": "So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, [even] all that were skillful, was two hundred and eighty eight." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:8", "text": "And they cast lots, ward against [ward], as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:9", "text": "Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:10", "text": "The third to Zaccur, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:11", "text": "The fourth to Izri, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:12", "text": "The fifth to Nethaniah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:13", "text": "The sixth to Bukkiah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:14", "text": "The seventh to Jesharelah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:15", "text": "The eighth to Jeshaiah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:16", "text": "The ninth to Mattaniah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:17", "text": "The tenth to Shimei, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:18", "text": "The eleventh to Azareel, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:19", "text": "The twelfth to Hashabiah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:20", "text": "The thirteenth to Shubael, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:21", "text": "The fourteenth to Mattithiah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:22", "text": "The fifteenth to Jeremoth, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:23", "text": "The sixteenth to Hananiah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:24", "text": "The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:25", "text": "The eighteenth to Hanani, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:26", "text": "The nineteenth to Mallothi, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:27", "text": "The twentieth to Eliathah, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:28", "text": "The one and twentieth to Hothir, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:29", "text": "The two and twentieth to Giddalti, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:30", "text": "The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 25:31", "text": "The four and twentieth to Romamti-ezer, [he], his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:1", "text": "Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:2", "text": "And the sons of Meshelemiah [were], Zechariah the first-born, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:3", "text": "Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:4", "text": "Moreover the sons of Obed-edom [were], Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:5", "text": "Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:6", "text": "Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valor." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:7", "text": "The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren [were] strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:8", "text": "All these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, [were] sixty and two of Obed-edom." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:9", "text": "And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:10", "text": "Also Hosah of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for [though] he was not the first-born, yet his father made him the chief;)" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:11", "text": "Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah [were] thirteen." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:12", "text": "Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:13", "text": "And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:14", "text": "And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:15", "text": "To obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:16", "text": "To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the way of the ascent, ward against ward." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:17", "text": "Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and towards Asuppim, two [and] two." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:18", "text": "At Parbar westward, four at the causey, [and] two at Parbar." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:19", "text": "These [are] the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:20", "text": "And of the Levites, Ahijah [was] over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:21", "text": "[As concerning] the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, [even] of Laadan the Gershonite, [were] Jehieli." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:22", "text": "The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, [who were] over the treasures of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:23", "text": "Of the Amramites, [and] the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the Uzzielites:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:24", "text": "And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, [was] ruler of the treasures." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:25", "text": "And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:26", "text": "Which Shelomith and his brethren [were] over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:27", "text": "Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:28", "text": "And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; [and] whoever had dedicated [any thing], [it was] under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:29", "text": "Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:30", "text": "[And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valor, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side of Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:31", "text": "Among the Hebronites [was] Jerijah the chief, [even] among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 26:32", "text": "And his brethren, men of valor, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:1", "text": "Now the children of Israel after their number, [to wit], the chief fathers, and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:2", "text": "Over the first course for the first month [was] Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:3", "text": "Of the children of Perez, [was] the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:4", "text": "And over the course of the second month [was] Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course [was] Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:5", "text": "The third captain of the host for the third month [was] Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:6", "text": "This [is that] Benaiah, [who was] mighty [among] the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course [was] Ammizabad his son." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:7", "text": "The fourth [captain] for the fourth month [was] Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:8", "text": "The fifth captain for the fifth month [was] Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:9", "text": "The sixth [captain] for the sixth month [was] Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:10", "text": "The seventh [captain] for the seventh month [was] Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:11", "text": "The eighth [captain] for the eighth month [was] Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:12", "text": "The ninth [captain] for the ninth month [was] Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjaminites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:13", "text": "The tenth [captain] for the tenth month [was] Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:14", "text": "The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month [was] Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:15", "text": "The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month [was] Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:16", "text": "Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:17", "text": "Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:18", "text": "Of Judah, Elihu, [one] of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:19", "text": "Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:20", "text": "Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:21", "text": "Of the half [tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:22", "text": "Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These [were] the princes of the tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:23", "text": "But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:24", "text": "Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:25", "text": "And over the king's treasures [was] Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the store-houses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, [was] Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:26", "text": "And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:27", "text": "And over the vineyards [was] Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:28", "text": "And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that [were] in the low plains [was] Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil [was] Joash:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:29", "text": "And over the herds that fed in Sharon [was] Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds [that were] in the valleys [was] Shaphat the son of Adlai:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:30", "text": "Over the camels also [was] Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses [was] Jehdeiah the Meronothite:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:31", "text": "And over the flocks [was] Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers of the substance which [was] king David's." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:32", "text": "Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni [was] with the king's sons:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:33", "text": "And Ahithophel [was] the king's counselor: and Hushai the Archite [was] the king's companion:" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "name": "1 Chronicles 27:34", "text": "And after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:1", "text": "And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:2", "text": "Then David the king stood upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:3", "text": "But God said to me, Thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou [hast been] a man of war, and hast shed blood." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:4", "text": "However the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah [to be] the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he approved me to make [me] king over all Israel:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:5", "text": "And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:6", "text": "And he said to me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him [to be] my son, and I will be his father." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:7", "text": "Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he shall be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:8", "text": "Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you for ever." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:9", "text": "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou shalt forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:10", "text": "Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do [it]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:11", "text": "Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses of it, and of its treasuries, and of its upper chambers, and of its inner parlors, and of the place of the mercy-seat," }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:12", "text": "And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers around, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:13", "text": "Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:14", "text": "[He gave] of gold by weight for [things] of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; [silver also] for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:15", "text": "Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for its lamps: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick, and [also] for its lamps, according to the use of every candlestick." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:16", "text": "And by weight [he gave] gold for the tables of show-bread, for every table; and [likewise] silver for the tables of silver:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:17", "text": "Also pure gold for the flesh-hooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basins [he gave gold] by weight for every basin; and [likewise silver] by weight for every basin of silver:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:18", "text": "And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:19", "text": "All [this], [said David], the LORD made me understand in writing by [his] hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:20", "text": "And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and of good courage, and do [it]: fear not, nor be dismayed, for the LORD God, [even] my God, [will be] with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 28:21", "text": "And behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skillful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy command." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:1", "text": "Furthermore David the king said to all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, [is yet] young and tender, and the work [is] great: for the palace [is] not for man, but for the LORD God." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:2", "text": "Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for [things to he made] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and the brass for [things] of brass, the iron for [things] of iron, and wood for [things] of wood; onyx-stones, and [stones] to be set, glittering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:3", "text": "Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of my own possessions, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:4", "text": "[Even] three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:5", "text": "The gold for [things] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] is willing to consecrate his service this day to the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:6", "text": "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:7", "text": "And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:8", "text": "And they with whom [precious] stones were found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:9", "text": "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:10", "text": "Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:11", "text": "Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is] in the heaven and on the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:12", "text": "Both riches and honor [come] from thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thy hand [is] power and might; and in thy hand [it is] to make great, and to give strength to all." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:13", "text": "Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:14", "text": "But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things [come] from thee, and of thy own have we given thee." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:15", "text": "For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] no abiding." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:16", "text": "O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name [cometh] from thy hand, and [is] all thy own." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:17", "text": "I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, who are present here, to offer willingly to thee." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:18", "text": "O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart to thee:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:19", "text": "And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things], and to build the palace, [for] which I have made provision." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:20", "text": "And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed their heads, and worshiped the LORD, and the king." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:21", "text": "And they sacrificed sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings to the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:22", "text": "And ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed [him] to the LORD [to be] the chief governor, and Zadok [to be] priest." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:23", "text": "Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:24", "text": "And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:25", "text": "And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him [such] royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:26", "text": "Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:27", "text": "And the time that he reigned over Israel [was] forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and thirty and three [years] he reigned in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:28", "text": "And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:29", "text": "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "name": "1 Chronicles 29:30", "text": "With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:1", "text": "And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:2", "text": "Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:3", "text": "So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Gibeon: for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:4", "text": "But the ark of God David had brought up from Kirjath-jearim to [the place which] David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:5", "text": "Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought to it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:6", "text": "And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt-offerings upon it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:7", "text": "In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:8", "text": "And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shown great mercy to David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:9", "text": "Now, O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:10", "text": "Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy great people?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:11", "text": "And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thy enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:12", "text": "Wisdom and knowledge [are] granted to thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that [have been] before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:13", "text": "Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place that [was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:14", "text": "And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:15", "text": "And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:16", "text": "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 1:17", "text": "And they fetched up, and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so they brought out [horses] for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:1", "text": "And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:2", "text": "And Solomon numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:3", "text": "And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell in it, [even so deal with me]." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:4", "text": "Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual show-bread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for ever to Israel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:5", "text": "And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:6", "text": "But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then that I should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:7", "text": "Send me now therefore a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave with the skillful men that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:8", "text": "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:9", "text": "Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderfully great." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:10", "text": "And behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:11", "text": "Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:12", "text": "Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that may build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:13", "text": "And now I have sent a skillful man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:14", "text": "The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David thy father." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:15", "text": "Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord hath spoken of, let him send to his servants;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:16", "text": "And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou mayest convey it to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:17", "text": "And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 2:18", "text": "And he set seventy thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people to work." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:1", "text": "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:2", "text": "And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:3", "text": "Now these [are the things in which] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:4", "text": "And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the hight [was] a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:5", "text": "And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:6", "text": "And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:7", "text": "He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:8", "text": "And he made the most holy house, the length of which [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:9", "text": "And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:10", "text": "And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:11", "text": "And the wings of the cherubim [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:12", "text": "And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:13", "text": "The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:14", "text": "And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim upon it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:15", "text": "Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:16", "text": "And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 3:17", "text": "And he erected the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:1", "text": "Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the hight of it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:2", "text": "Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the hight of it; and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:3", "text": "And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which encompassed it: ten in a cubit, encompassing the sea. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:4", "text": "It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking towards the north, and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards the south, and three looking towards the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:5", "text": "And the thickness of it [was] a hand-breadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:6", "text": "He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:7", "text": "And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:8", "text": "He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of gold." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:9", "text": "Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:10", "text": "And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:11", "text": "And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:12", "text": "[To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the capitals [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the capitals which [were] on the top of the pillars;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:13", "text": "And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the capitals which [were] upon the pillars." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:14", "text": "He made also bases, and lavers he made upon the bases;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:15", "text": "One sea, and twelve oxen under it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:16", "text": "The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:17", "text": "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:18", "text": "Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be ascertained." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:19", "text": "And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables on which the show-bread [was set];" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:20", "text": "Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:21", "text": "And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he of] gold, [and] that perfect gold;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 4:22", "text": "And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were of] gold." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:1", "text": "Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, he put among the treasures of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:2", "text": "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the city of David, which [is] Zion." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:3", "text": "Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:4", "text": "And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:5", "text": "And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levites bring up." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:6", "text": "Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:7", "text": "And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy [place], [even] under the wings of the cherubim:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:8", "text": "For the cherubim spread forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark, and the staffs of it above." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:9", "text": "And they drew out the staffs [of the ark], that the ends of the staffs were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is to this day." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:10", "text": "[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put [in it] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:11", "text": "And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:12", "text": "Also the Levites [who were] the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren; [being] arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:13", "text": "It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 5:14", "text": "So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:1", "text": "Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:2", "text": "But I have built a house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:3", "text": "And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:4", "text": "And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:5", "text": "Since the day that I brought forth my people from the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:6", "text": "But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:7", "text": "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:8", "text": "But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thy heart;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:9", "text": "Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:10", "text": "The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken; for I am raised up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:11", "text": "And in it have I put the ark, in which [is] the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:12", "text": "And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:13", "text": "(For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven,)" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:14", "text": "And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee in the heaven, nor on the earth; who keepest covenant, and [showest] mercy to thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:15", "text": "Thou who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and hast spoken with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thy hand, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:16", "text": "Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; provided thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:17", "text": "Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:18", "text": "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:19", "text": "Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken to the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:20", "text": "That thy eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place of which thou hast said, that thou wouldst put thy name there; to hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth towards this place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:21", "text": "Hearken therefore to the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make towards this place: hear thou from thy dwelling-place, [even] from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:22", "text": "If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath shall come before thy altar in this house;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:23", "text": "Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:24", "text": "And if thy people Israel shall be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:25", "text": "Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:26", "text": "When the heaven is shut, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray towards this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:27", "text": "Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:28", "text": "If there shall be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies shall besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever calamity, or whatever sickness [there be]:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:29", "text": "[Then] whatever prayer, [or] whatever supplication shall be made by any man, or by all the people of Israel, when every one shall know his own calamity, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:30", "text": "Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:31", "text": "That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:32", "text": "Moreover concerning the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, but hath come from a distant country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy out-stretched arm; if they come and pray in this house;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:33", "text": "Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:34", "text": "If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to thee towards this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:35", "text": "Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:36", "text": "If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man who sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives to a land far off or near;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:37", "text": "Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:38", "text": "If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray towards their land which thou gavest to their fathers, and [towards] the city which thou hast chosen, and towards the house which I have built for thy name:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:39", "text": "Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:40", "text": "Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thy eyes be open, and [let] thy ears [be] attentive to the prayer [that is made] in this place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:41", "text": "Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "name": "2 Chronicles 6:42", "text": "O LORD God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:1", "text": "Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:2", "text": "And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:3", "text": "And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:4", "text": "Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:5", "text": "And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:6", "text": "And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:7", "text": "Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that [was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offerings, and the meat-offerings, and the fat." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:8", "text": "Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath to the river of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:9", "text": "And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:10", "text": "And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:11", "text": "Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:12", "text": "And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:13", "text": "If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "text": "If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:15", "text": "Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer [that is made] in this place." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:16", "text": "For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:17", "text": "And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:18", "text": "Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man [to be] ruler in Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:19", "text": "But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:20", "text": "Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a by-word among all nations." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:21", "text": "And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 7:22", "text": "And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:1", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:2", "text": "That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:3", "text": "And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:4", "text": "And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:5", "text": "Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:6", "text": "And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:7", "text": "[As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who [were] not of Israel," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:8", "text": "[But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:9", "text": "But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:10", "text": "And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:11", "text": "And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because [the places are] holy, to which the ark of the LORD hath come." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:12", "text": "Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:13", "text": "Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:14", "text": "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:15", "text": "And they departed not from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:16", "text": "Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:17", "text": "Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "text": "And Huram sent to him by the hands of his servants, ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:1", "text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she had come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:2", "text": "And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:3", "text": "And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:4", "text": "And the provisions of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cup-bearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:5", "text": "And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I heard in my own land of thy acts, and of thy wisdom:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:6", "text": "Yet, I believed not their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen [it]: and behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told to me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that I heard." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:7", "text": "Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:8", "text": "Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore he made thee king over them, to do judgment and justice." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:9", "text": "And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:10", "text": "And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:11", "text": "And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:12", "text": "And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides [that] which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:13", "text": "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty and six talents of gold;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:14", "text": "Besides [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:15", "text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:16", "text": "And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:17", "text": "Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:18", "text": "And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting-place, and two lions standing by the stays:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:19", "text": "And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:20", "text": "And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: once every three years came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:22", "text": "And king Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:23", "text": "And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:24", "text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:25", "text": "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:26", "text": "And he reigned over all the kings from the river even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:27", "text": "And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as the sycamore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:28", "text": "And they brought to Solomon horses from Egypt, and from all lands." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:30", "text": "And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 9:31", "text": "And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:1", "text": "And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem had all Israel come to make him king." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:2", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who [was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned from Egypt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:3", "text": "And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:4", "text": "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:5", "text": "And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:6", "text": "And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye [me] to return answer to this people?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:7", "text": "And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:8", "text": "But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:9", "text": "And he said to them, What advice give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father put upon us?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:10", "text": "And the young men that were brought up with him, spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spoke to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say to them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:11", "text": "For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:12", "text": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king directed, saying, Come again to me on the third day." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:13", "text": "And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:14", "text": "And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:15", "text": "So the king hearkened not to the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:16", "text": "And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have] no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see to thy own house. So all Israel went to their tents." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:17", "text": "But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:18", "text": "Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get into his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 10:19", "text": "And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:1", "text": "And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and eighty thousand chosen [men] who were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:2", "text": "But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:3", "text": "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:4", "text": "Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done by me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:5", "text": "And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:6", "text": "He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:7", "text": "And Beth-zur, and Shocho, and Adullam," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:8", "text": "And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:9", "text": "And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:10", "text": "And Zorah, and Ajalon, and Hebron, which [are] in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:11", "text": "And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of provisions, and of oil and wine." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:12", "text": "And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:13", "text": "And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all Israel resorted to him from all their borders." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:14", "text": "For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office to the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:15", "text": "And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:16", "text": "And after them out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:17", "text": "So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:18", "text": "And Rehoboam took to himself Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David for a wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:19", "text": "Who bore him children, Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:20", "text": "And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; who bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:21", "text": "And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters.)" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:22", "text": "And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, [to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 11:23", "text": "And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them provisions in abundance. And he desired many wives." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:2", "text": "And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:3", "text": "With twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Cushites." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:4", "text": "And he took the fortified cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:5", "text": "Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were assembled at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:6", "text": "Upon which the princes of Israel, and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:7", "text": "And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:8", "text": "Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:9", "text": "So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:10", "text": "Instead of which, king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:11", "text": "And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and conveyed them, and brought them again into the guard-chamber." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:12", "text": "And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah things went well." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:13", "text": "So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:14", "text": "And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "text": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer, concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 12:16", "text": "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:1", "text": "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:2", "text": "He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:3", "text": "And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valor." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:4", "text": "And Abijah stood upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:5", "text": "Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:6", "text": "Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the son of David, hath risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:7", "text": "And there are gathered to him vain men, the children of Belial, and [they] have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:8", "text": "And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye [are] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:9", "text": "Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made for you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:10", "text": "But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, who minister to the LORD, [are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their] business:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:11", "text": "And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt-sacrifices and sweet incense: the show-bread also [they set in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its lamps to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:12", "text": "And behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye will not prosper." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:13", "text": "But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush [was] behind them." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:14", "text": "And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was] before and behind: and they cried to the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:15", "text": "Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:16", "text": "And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:17", "text": "And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:18", "text": "Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:19", "text": "And Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:20", "text": "Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:21", "text": "But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 13:22", "text": "And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:1", "text": "So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:2", "text": "And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:3", "text": "For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:4", "text": "And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:5", "text": "Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:6", "text": "And he built fortified cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:7", "text": "Therefore he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built, and prospered." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:8", "text": "And Asa had an army [of men] that bore targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valor." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:9", "text": "And there came out against them Zerah the Cushite, with a host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came to Mareshah." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:10", "text": "Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathath at Mareshah." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:11", "text": "And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:12", "text": "So the LORD smote the Cushites before Asa, and before Judah; and the Cushites fled." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:13", "text": "And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them to Gerar: and the Cushites were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:14", "text": "And they smote all the cities about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they plundered all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 14:15", "text": "They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:1", "text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:2", "text": "And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:3", "text": "Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:4", "text": "But when they in their trouble returned to the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:5", "text": "And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:6", "text": "And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city: for God troubled them with all adversity." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:7", "text": "Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:8", "text": "And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:9", "text": "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they resorted to him out of Israel in multitudes, when they saw that the LORD his God [was] with him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:10", "text": "So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:11", "text": "And they offered to the LORD at the same time, of the spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:12", "text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:13", "text": "That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:14", "text": "And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:15", "text": "And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them: and the LORD gave them rest on all sides." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:16", "text": "And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:17", "text": "But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:18", "text": "And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 15:19", "text": "And there was no [more] war until the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:1", "text": "In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:2", "text": "Then Asa brought silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:3", "text": "[There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:4", "text": "And Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:5", "text": "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he left off the building of Ramah, and let his work cease." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:6", "text": "Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha was building, and he built with it Geba and Mizpah." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:7", "text": "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore hath the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:8", "text": "Were not the Cushites and the Lubims a numerous army, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thy hand." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:9", "text": "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect towards him. In this thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:10", "text": "Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:11", "text": "And behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:12", "text": "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceedingly [severe]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:13", "text": "And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 16:14", "text": "And they buried him in his own sepulchers which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:1", "text": "And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:2", "text": "And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:3", "text": "And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not to Baalim;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:4", "text": "But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:5", "text": "Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand: and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honor in abundance." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:7", "text": "Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:8", "text": "And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:9", "text": "And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:10", "text": "And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:11", "text": "Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he-goats." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:12", "text": "And Jehoshaphat became exceedingly great; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:13", "text": "And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valor, [were] in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:14", "text": "And these [are] the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:15", "text": "And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:16", "text": "And next to him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:17", "text": "And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:18", "text": "And next to him [was] Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready prepared for the war." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 17:19", "text": "These waited on the king, besides [those] whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:1", "text": "Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:2", "text": "And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to go up [with him] to Ramoth-gilead." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:3", "text": "And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:4", "text": "And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to-day." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:5", "text": "Therefore the king of Israel collected of prophets four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:6", "text": "But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we may inquire of him?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:7", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good to me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:8", "text": "And the king of Israel called for one [of his] officers, and said, Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imla." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:9", "text": "And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat each of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they sat in a void place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:10", "text": "And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they shall be consumed." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:11", "text": "And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD will deliver [it] into the hand of the king." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:12", "text": "And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one consent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:13", "text": "And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:14", "text": "And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:15", "text": "And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:16", "text": "Then he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:17", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee [that] he would not prophesy good to me, but evil?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:18", "text": "Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:19", "text": "And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:20", "text": "Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said to him, With what?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:21", "text": "And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out and do [even] so." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:22", "text": "Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:23", "text": "Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak to thee?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:24", "text": "And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:25", "text": "Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:26", "text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [man] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:27", "text": "And Micaiah said, If thou shalt certainly return in peace, [then] hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:28", "text": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:29", "text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:30", "text": "Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that [were] with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:31", "text": "And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:32", "text": "For it came to pass, that when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:33", "text": "And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot-man, Turn thy hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Chronicles 18:34", "text": "And the battle increased that day: yet the king of Israel supported [himself] in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the evening: and about the time of the sun setting he died." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:1", "text": "And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:2", "text": "And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:3", "text": "Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:4", "text": "And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:5", "text": "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:6", "text": "And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the judgment." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:7", "text": "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:8", "text": "Moreover, in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:9", "text": "And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:10", "text": "And whatever cause shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 19:11", "text": "And behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD will be with the good." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:1", "text": "It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [others] besides the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:2", "text": "Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side of Syria; and behold, they [are] in Hazazon-tamar, which [is] En-gedi." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:3", "text": "And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:4", "text": "And Judah assembled, to ask [help] of the LORD: even from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:5", "text": "And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:6", "text": "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in heaven? and rulest thou [not] over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thy hand [is there not] power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:7", "text": "[Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:8", "text": "And they dwelt in it, and have built thee a sanctuary in it for thy name, saying," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:9", "text": "If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry to thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:10", "text": "And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldst not let Israel invade, when they came from the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:11", "text": "Behold, [I say], [how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:12", "text": "O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:13", "text": "And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:14", "text": "Then upon Jehaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:15", "text": "And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD to you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:16", "text": "To-morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:17", "text": "Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to-morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:18", "text": "And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:19", "text": "And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:20", "text": "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:21", "text": "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers to the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:22", "text": "And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who were come against Judah; and they were smitten." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:23", "text": "For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:24", "text": "And when Judah came towards the watch-tower in the wilderness, they looked to the multitude, and behold, they [were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:25", "text": "And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering the spoil, it was so much." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:26", "text": "And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place hath been called, The valley of Berachah, to this day." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:27", "text": "Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:28", "text": "And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets to the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:29", "text": "And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:30", "text": "So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest on all sides." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:31", "text": "And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:32", "text": "And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:33", "text": "But the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:34", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:35", "text": "And after this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:36", "text": "And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "name": "2 Chronicles 20:37", "text": "Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:1", "text": "Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:2", "text": "And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:3", "text": "And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram; because he [was] the first-born." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:4", "text": "Now when Jehoram had risen to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:5", "text": "Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:6", "text": "And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab for a wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:7", "text": "Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:8", "text": "In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:9", "text": "Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites who encompassed him, and the captains of the chariots." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:10", "text": "So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:11", "text": "Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah to [do the same]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:12", "text": "And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:13", "text": "But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry, like the idolatries of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [who were] better than thyself:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:14", "text": "Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:15", "text": "And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:16", "text": "Moreover, the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the Cushites." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:17", "text": "And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was not a son left to him, save Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:18", "text": "And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:19", "text": "And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of severe diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 21:20", "text": "Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem, eight years, and departed without being desired: yet they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchers of the kings." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:1", "text": "And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:2", "text": "Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:3", "text": "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:4", "text": "Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:5", "text": "He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:6", "text": "And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:7", "text": "And the destruction of Ahaziah was from God by coming to Joram: for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:8", "text": "And it came to pass, that when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:9", "text": "And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to retain the kingdom." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:10", "text": "But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose, and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:11", "text": "But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bed chamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 22:12", "text": "And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:1", "text": "And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:2", "text": "And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:3", "text": "And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:4", "text": "This [is] the thing that ye shall do: A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, [shall be] porters of the doors;" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:5", "text": "And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:6", "text": "But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:7", "text": "And the Levites shall encompass the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever [else] cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:8", "text": "So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:9", "text": "Moreover, Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds, spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king David's, which [were] in the house of God." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:10", "text": "And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king on all sides." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:11", "text": "Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:12", "text": "Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:13", "text": "And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entrance, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, treason." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:14", "text": "Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth without the ranges: and whoever followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:15", "text": "So they laid hands on her; and when she had come to the entrance of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:16", "text": "And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:17", "text": "Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:18", "text": "Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt-offerings of the LORD, as [it is] written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:19", "text": "And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none [who was] unclean in any thing should enter." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:20", "text": "And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 23:21", "text": "And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after they had slain Athaliah with the sword." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:1", "text": "Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:2", "text": "And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:3", "text": "And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:4", "text": "And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:5", "text": "And he convened the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened [it] not." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:6", "text": "And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:7", "text": "For the sons of Athaliah that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD they bestowed upon Baalim." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:8", "text": "And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:9", "text": "And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God [laid] upon Israel in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:10", "text": "And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:11", "text": "Now it came to pass, that at the time the chest was brought to the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that [there was] much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and collected money in abundance." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:12", "text": "And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:13", "text": "So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in its state, and strengthened it." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:14", "text": "And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [with], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:15", "text": "But Jehoiada grew old, and was full of days when he died; a hundred and thirty years old [was] he when he died." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:16", "text": "And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both towards God, and towards his house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:17", "text": "Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened to them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:18", "text": "And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:19", "text": "Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:20", "text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:21", "text": "And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:22", "text": "Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it]." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:23", "text": "And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:24", "text": "For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:25", "text": "And when they had departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchers of the kings." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:26", "text": "And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 24:27", "text": "Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they [are] written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:1", "text": "Amaziah [was] twenty and five years old [when] he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:3", "text": "Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:4", "text": "But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law of the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:5", "text": "Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men], [able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:6", "text": "He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:7", "text": "But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to wit], [with] all the children of Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:8", "text": "But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:9", "text": "And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:10", "text": "Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:11", "text": "And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:12", "text": "And [other] ten thousand [left] alive the children of Judah carried away captive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they were all broken in pieces." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:13", "text": "But the soldiers of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:14", "text": "Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed himself before them, and burned incense to them." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:15", "text": "Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thy hand?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:16", "text": "And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Art thou made of the king's council? forbear? why shouldst thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:17", "text": "Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:18", "text": "And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:19", "text": "Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thy heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldst thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldst fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:20", "text": "But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] from God, that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:21", "text": "So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:22", "text": "And Judah was defeated before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:23", "text": "And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:24", "text": "And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:25", "text": "And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen years." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:26", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:27", "text": "Now after the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 25:28", "text": "And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:1", "text": "Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:2", "text": "He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:3", "text": "Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:4", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:5", "text": "And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and, as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:6", "text": "And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:7", "text": "And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:8", "text": "And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad [even] to the entrance of Egypt: for he strengthened [himself] exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "text": "Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had many cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:11", "text": "Moreover, Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war, by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:12", "text": "The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor [were] two thousand and six hundred." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:13", "text": "And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:15", "text": "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was helped in a wonderful manner, till he was strong." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:16", "text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:17", "text": "And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:18", "text": "And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, [It appertaineth] not to thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither [will it be] for thy honor from the LORD God." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:19", "text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:20", "text": "And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests looked upon him, and behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:21", "text": "And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:22", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, were written by Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 26:23", "text": "So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:1", "text": "Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: yet, he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:3", "text": "He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:4", "text": "Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:5", "text": "He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay to him, both the second year, and the third." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:6", "text": "So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:7", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, see, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:8", "text": "He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 27:9", "text": "And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:1", "text": "Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:2", "text": "For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:3", "text": "Moreover, he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:4", "text": "He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:5", "text": "Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:6", "text": "For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [who were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:7", "text": "And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah [that was] next to the king." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:8", "text": "And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:9", "text": "But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth to heaven." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:10", "text": "And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bond-men and bond-women to you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:11", "text": "Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD [is] upon you." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:12", "text": "Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:13", "text": "And said to them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass [is] great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Israel." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:14", "text": "So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:15", "text": "And the men who were expressed by name arose, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:16", "text": "At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:17", "text": "For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:18", "text": "The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with its villages, and Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages: and they dwelt there." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:19", "text": "For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel: for he made Judah naked, and greatly transgressed against the LORD." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:20", "text": "And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:21", "text": "For Ahaz took away a portion from the house of the LORD, and from the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] to the king of Assyria: but he helped him not." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:22", "text": "And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:23", "text": "For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:24", "text": "And Ahaz collected the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:25", "text": "And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:26", "text": "Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 28:27", "text": "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:1", "text": "Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Abijah the daughter of Zechariah." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:3", "text": "He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:4", "text": "And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:5", "text": "And said to them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place]." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:6", "text": "For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned [their] backs." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:7", "text": "Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy [place] to the God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:8", "text": "Wherefore the wrath of the LORD hath been upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:9", "text": "For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:10", "text": "Now [it is] in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:11", "text": "My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister to him, and burn incense." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:12", "text": "Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:13", "text": "And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:14", "text": "And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:15", "text": "And they assembled their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:16", "text": "And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:17", "text": "Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:18", "text": "Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt-offering, with all its vessels, and the show-bread table, with all its vessels." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:19", "text": "Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:20", "text": "Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and convened the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:21", "text": "And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:22", "text": "So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:23", "text": "And they brought forth the he-goats [for] the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:24", "text": "And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded [that] the burnt-offering and the sin-offering [should be made] for all Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:25", "text": "And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his prophets." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:26", "text": "And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:27", "text": "And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar. And when the burnt-offering began, the song of the LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained] by David king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:28", "text": "And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt-offering was finished." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:29", "text": "And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:30", "text": "Moreover, Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise to the LORD, with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:31", "text": "Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and, as many as were of a free heart, burnt-offerings." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:32", "text": "And the number of the burnt-offerings, which the congregation brought, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams: [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a burnt-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:33", "text": "And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:34", "text": "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites helped them, till the work was ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites [were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:35", "text": "And also the burnt-offerings [were] in abundance, with the fat of the peace-offerings, and the drink-offerings for [every] burnt-offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 36, "name": "2 Chronicles 29:36", "text": "And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:1", "text": "And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:2", "text": "For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:3", "text": "For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people assembled themselves at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:4", "text": "And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:5", "text": "So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in the manner] as it was written." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:6", "text": "So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you that have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:7", "text": "And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:8", "text": "Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers [were], [but] yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:9", "text": "For if ye turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children [will find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they will return into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return to him." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:10", "text": "So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even to Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:11", "text": "Nevertheless, divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:12", "text": "Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:13", "text": "And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:14", "text": "And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:15", "text": "Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt-offerings into the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:16", "text": "And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, [which they received] from the hand of the Levites." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:17", "text": "For [there were] many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to sanctify [them] to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "text": "For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:19", "text": "[That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he is] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:20", "text": "And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:21", "text": "And the children of Israel [that were] present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:22", "text": "And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace-offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:23", "text": "And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:24", "text": "For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:25", "text": "And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came from the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:26", "text": "So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel [there was] not the like in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 30:27", "text": "Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer ascended to his holy dwelling-place, [even] to heaven." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel [that were] present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession into their own cities." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:2", "text": "And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:3", "text": "[He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt-offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening burnt-offerings, and the burnt-offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new-moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is] written in the law of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:4", "text": "Moreover, he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first-fruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all [things] they brought in abundantly." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:6", "text": "And the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:7", "text": "In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:8", "text": "And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:9", "text": "Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:10", "text": "And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left [is] this great abundance." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:11", "text": "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared [them]," }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes, and the dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Conaniah the Levite [was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:13", "text": "And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, [were] overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:14", "text": "And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter towards the east, [was] over the free-will-offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:15", "text": "And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:16", "text": "Besides their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, [even] to every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:17", "text": "Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their courses;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:18", "text": "And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:19", "text": "Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [who were] in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:20", "text": "And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and performed [that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his God." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 31:21", "text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:1", "text": "After [these] things, and their establishment, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:2", "text": "And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he purposed to fight against Jerusalem," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:3", "text": "He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they helped him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:4", "text": "So there were assembled many people, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:6", "text": "And he set captains of war over the people, and assembled them to him in the street of the gate of the city, and encouraged them, saying," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:7", "text": "Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is] with him: for [there are] more with us than with him:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:8", "text": "With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:9", "text": "After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against Lachish, and all his power with him,) to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying," }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:10", "text": "Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:11", "text": "Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:12", "text": "Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:13", "text": "Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:14", "text": "Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:15", "text": "Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom hath been able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:16", "text": "And his servants spoke yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:17", "text": "He wrote also letters to rail at the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my hand." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:18", "text": "Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech to the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to fill them with consternation; that they might take the city." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:19", "text": "And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, the work of the hands of man." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:20", "text": "And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:21", "text": "And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he had come into the house of his god, they that came forth from his own bowels slew him there with the sword." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:22", "text": "Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:23", "text": "And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that from thenceforth he was magnified in the sight of all nations." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:24", "text": "In those days Hezekiah was sick and near to death, and [he] prayed to the LORD: and he spoke to him, and he gave him a sign." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:25", "text": "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [done] to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:26", "text": "Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:27", "text": "And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:28", "text": "Store-houses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:29", "text": "Moreover, he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance in great abundance." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:30", "text": "This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:31", "text": "But, in [the business of] the embassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:32", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, [and] in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 32:33", "text": "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chief of the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:1", "text": "Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:2", "text": "But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:3", "text": "For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:4", "text": "Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:5", "text": "And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:6", "text": "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:7", "text": "And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:8", "text": "Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers; provided they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:9", "text": "So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:10", "text": "And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:11", "text": "Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:12", "text": "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:13", "text": "And prayed to him: and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [is] God." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:14", "text": "Now after this, he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish-gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great highth, and put captains of war in all the fortified cities of Judah." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:15", "text": "And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of the city." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:16", "text": "And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed on it peace-offerings and thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:17", "text": "Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still in the high places, [yet] to the LORD their God only." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:18", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:19", "text": "His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated by him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:20", "text": "So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:21", "text": "Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:22", "text": "But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:23", "text": "And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:24", "text": "And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 33:25", "text": "But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "2 Chronicles 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:1", "text": "Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:2", "text": "And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:3", "text": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:4", "text": "And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust [of them] and strewed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:5", "text": "And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:6", "text": "And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their mattocks around." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:7", "text": "And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:8", "text": "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:9", "text": "And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had collected from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:10", "text": "And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and mend the house:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:11", "text": "Even to the artificers and builders they gave [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:12", "text": "And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to superintend [it]; and [others of] the Levites, all that had skill in instruments of music." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:13", "text": "Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:14", "text": "And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moses." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:15", "text": "And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:16", "text": "And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they perform." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:17", "text": "And they have collected the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:18", "text": "Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:19", "text": "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:20", "text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:21", "text": "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel, and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:22", "text": "And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spoke to her to that [effect]." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:23", "text": "And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:24", "text": "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, [even] all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:25", "text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:26", "text": "And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:27", "text": "Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou didst hear his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and didst humble thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:28", "text": "Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thy eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:29", "text": "Then the king sent and convened all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:30", "text": "And the king went into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:31", "text": "And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 32, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:32", "text": "And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin, to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 33, "name": "2 Chronicles 34:33", "text": "And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel, to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers." } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "2 Chronicles 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:1", "text": "Moreover, Josiah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:2", "text": "And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "text": "And said to the Levites that taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; [it shall] not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:4", "text": "And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:5", "text": "And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and [after] the division of the families of the Levites." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:6", "text": "So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:7", "text": "And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover-offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the king's substance." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:8", "text": "And his princes gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:9", "text": "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jehiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for passover-offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:10", "text": "So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:11", "text": "And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:12", "text": "And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer to the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And so [did they] with the oxen." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:13", "text": "And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] they boiled in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among all the people." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:14", "text": "And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:15", "text": "And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:16", "text": "So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:17", "text": "And the children of Israel [that were] present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:18", "text": "And there was no passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:19", "text": "In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:20", "text": "After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:21", "text": "But he sent embassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day, but against the house with which I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with] God, who [is] with me, that he may not destroy thee." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:22", "text": "Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight with him, and hearkened not to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:23", "text": "And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am severely wounded." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:24", "text": "His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:25", "text": "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they [are] written in the lamentations." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:26", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "name": "2 Chronicles 35:27", "text": "And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "2 Chronicles 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:1", "text": "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:2", "text": "Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:3", "text": "And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:4", "text": "And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:5", "text": "Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:6", "text": "Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:7", "text": "Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:8", "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:9", "text": "Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:10", "text": "And when the year had expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:11", "text": "Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:12", "text": "And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God, [and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:13", "text": "And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:14", "text": "Moreover, all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:15", "text": "And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:16", "text": "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:17", "text": "Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:18", "text": "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he brought to Babylon." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:19", "text": "And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its goodly vessels." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:20", "text": "And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:21", "text": "To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:22", "text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "name": "2 Chronicles 36:23", "text": "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 15, "name": "Ezra", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Ezra 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 1:1", "text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 1:2", "text": "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 1:3", "text": "Who [is there] among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he [is] the God,) who [is] in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 1:4", "text": "And whoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will-offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 1:5", "text": "Then arose the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all [them] whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 1:6", "text": "And all they that [were] about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all [that] was willingly offered." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 1:7", "text": "Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 1:8", "text": "Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 1:9", "text": "And this [is] the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 1:10", "text": "Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second [sort] four hundred and ten, [and] other vessels a thousand." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 1:11", "text": "All the vessels of gold and of silver [were] five thousand and four hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar bring with [them of] the captivity that were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Ezra 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 2:1", "text": "Now these [are] the children of the province that went up from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and came again to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his city;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 2:2", "text": "Who came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 2:3", "text": "The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 2:4", "text": "The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 2:5", "text": "The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 2:6", "text": "The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 2:7", "text": "The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 2:8", "text": "The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 2:9", "text": "The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 2:10", "text": "The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 2:11", "text": "The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 2:12", "text": "The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 2:13", "text": "The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 2:14", "text": "The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 2:15", "text": "The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 2:16", "text": "The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 2:17", "text": "The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Ezra 2:18", "text": "The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Ezra 2:19", "text": "The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Ezra 2:20", "text": "The children of Gibbar, ninety and five." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Ezra 2:21", "text": "The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Ezra 2:22", "text": "The men of Netophah, fifty and six." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Ezra 2:23", "text": "The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Ezra 2:24", "text": "The children of Azmaveth, forty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "Ezra 2:25", "text": "The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "Ezra 2:26", "text": "The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "name": "Ezra 2:27", "text": "The men of Michmas, a hundred twenty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "name": "Ezra 2:28", "text": "The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "name": "Ezra 2:29", "text": "The children of Nebo, fifty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "name": "Ezra 2:30", "text": "The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "name": "Ezra 2:31", "text": "The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "name": "Ezra 2:32", "text": "The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "name": "Ezra 2:33", "text": "The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "name": "Ezra 2:34", "text": "The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "name": "Ezra 2:35", "text": "The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "name": "Ezra 2:36", "text": "The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "name": "Ezra 2:37", "text": "The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "name": "Ezra 2:38", "text": "The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "name": "Ezra 2:39", "text": "The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "name": "Ezra 2:40", "text": "The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "name": "Ezra 2:41", "text": "The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "name": "Ezra 2:42", "text": "The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, [in] all a hundred thirty and nine." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "name": "Ezra 2:43", "text": "The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "name": "Ezra 2:44", "text": "The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "name": "Ezra 2:45", "text": "The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "name": "Ezra 2:46", "text": "The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "name": "Ezra 2:47", "text": "The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 48, "name": "Ezra 2:48", "text": "The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 49, "name": "Ezra 2:49", "text": "The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 50, "name": "Ezra 2:50", "text": "The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 51, "name": "Ezra 2:51", "text": "The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 52, "name": "Ezra 2:52", "text": "The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 53, "name": "Ezra 2:53", "text": "The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 54, "name": "Ezra 2:54", "text": "The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 55, "name": "Ezra 2:55", "text": "The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 56, "name": "Ezra 2:56", "text": "The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 57, "name": "Ezra 2:57", "text": "The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 58, "name": "Ezra 2:58", "text": "All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 59, "name": "Ezra 2:59", "text": "And these [were] they who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer: but they could not show their fathers' house, and their seed, whether they [were] of Israel:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 60, "name": "Ezra 2:60", "text": "The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 61, "name": "Ezra 2:61", "text": "And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai: who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 62, "name": "Ezra 2:62", "text": "These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 63, "name": "Ezra 2:63", "text": "And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 64, "name": "Ezra 2:64", "text": "The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred [and] sixty," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 65, "name": "Ezra 2:65", "text": "Besides their servants and their maids, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and [there were] among them two hundred singing-men and singing-women." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 66, "name": "Ezra 2:66", "text": "Their horses [were] seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 67, "name": "Ezra 2:67", "text": "Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their] asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 68, "name": "Ezra 2:68", "text": "And [some] of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which [is] at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in its place:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 69, "name": "Ezra 2:69", "text": "They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work sixty and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests garments." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 70, "name": "Ezra 2:70", "text": "So the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Ezra 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 3:1", "text": "And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel [were] in the cities, the people assembled themselves as one man at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 3:2", "text": "Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt-offerings on it as [it is] written in the law of Moses the man of God." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 3:3", "text": "And they set the altar upon its bases; for fear [was] upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt-offerings on it to the LORD, [even] burnt-offerings morning and evening." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 3:4", "text": "They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as [it is] written, and [offered] the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 3:5", "text": "And afterward [offered] the continual burnt-offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a free-will-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 3:6", "text": "From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt-offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not [yet] laid." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 3:7", "text": "They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and provisions, and drink, and oil, to them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 3:8", "text": "Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 3:9", "text": "Then stood Jeshua [with] his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, [with] their sons and their brethren the Levites." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 3:10", "text": "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 3:11", "text": "And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks to the LORD; because [he is] good, for his mercy [endureth] for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 3:12", "text": "But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, old men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 3:13", "text": "So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of the joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Ezra 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 4:1", "text": "Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to the LORD God of Israel;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 4:2", "text": "Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice to him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, who brought us up hither." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 4:3", "text": "But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said to them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 4:4", "text": "Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 4:5", "text": "And hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 4:6", "text": "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote [to him] an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 4:7", "text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions to Artaxerxes king of Persia, and the writing of the letter [was] written in the Syrian language, and interpreted in the Syrian language." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 4:8", "text": "Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 4:9", "text": "Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dianites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] the Elamites," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 4:10", "text": "And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest [that are] on this side of the river, and at such a time." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 4:11", "text": "This [is] the copy of the letter that they sent to him, [even] to Artaxerxes the king: Thy servants the men on this side of the river, and at such a time." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 4:12", "text": "Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came from thee to us are come to Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the noxious city, and have set up its walls, and joined the foundations." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 4:13", "text": "Be it known now to the king, that, if this city shall be built, and the walls set up [again], [then] they will not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and [so] thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 4:14", "text": "Now because we have maintenance from [the king's] palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 4:15", "text": "That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so wilt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city [is] a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 4:16", "text": "We certify the king that, if this city shall be built [again], and its walls set up, by this means thou wilt have no portion on this side of the river." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 4:17", "text": "[Then] the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and [to] Shimshai the scribe, and [to] the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and [to] the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Ezra 4:18", "text": "The letter which ye sent to us hath been plainly read before me." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Ezra 4:19", "text": "And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and [that] rebellion and sedition have been made in it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Ezra 4:20", "text": "There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [countries] beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid to them." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Ezra 4:21", "text": "Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until [another] commandment shall be given from me." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Ezra 4:22", "text": "Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Ezra 4:23", "text": "Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter [was] read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Ezra 4:24", "text": "Then ceased the work of the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. So it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Ezra 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 5:1", "text": "Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that [were] in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, [even] to them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 5:2", "text": "Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God helping them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 5:3", "text": "At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side of the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 5:4", "text": "Then said we to them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 5:5", "text": "But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this [matter]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 5:6", "text": "The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side of the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who [were] on this side of the river, sent to Darius the king:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 5:7", "text": "They sent a letter to him, in which was written thus; To Darius the king, all peace." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 5:8", "text": "Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work proceedeth rapidly, and prospereth in their hands." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 5:9", "text": "Then we asked those elders, [and] said to them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to erect these walls?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 5:10", "text": "We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that [were] the chief of them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 5:11", "text": "And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was erected these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 5:12", "text": "But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 5:13", "text": "But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, [the same] king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 5:14", "text": "And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that [was] in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to [one], whose name [was] Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 5:15", "text": "And said to him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that [is] in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 5:16", "text": "Then came the same Sheshbazzar, [and] laid the foundation of the house of God which [is] in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and [yet] it is not finished." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 5:17", "text": "Now therefore, if it [seemeth] good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure-house, which [is] there at Babylon, whether it is [so], that a decree was made by Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Ezra 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 6:1", "text": "Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 6:2", "text": "And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that [is] in the province of the Medes, a roll, and in it [was] a record thus written:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 6:3", "text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king, [the same] Cyrus the king made a decree [concerning] the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid; the hight of it sixty cubits, [and] the breadth of it sixty cubits;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 6:4", "text": "[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 6:5", "text": "And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, [every one] to its place, and place [them] in the house of God." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 6:6", "text": "Now [therefore], Tatnai governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who [are] beyond the river, be ye far from thence:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 6:7", "text": "Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God in its place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 6:8", "text": "Moreover, I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, [even] of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given to these men, that they be not hindered." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 6:9", "text": "And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt-offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests who [are] at Jerusalem, let it be given to them day by day without fail:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 6:10", "text": "That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savors to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 6:11", "text": "Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged upon it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 6:12", "text": "And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall attempt to alter and to destroy this house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 6:13", "text": "Then Tatnai governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 6:14", "text": "And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built, and finished [it], according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 6:15", "text": "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 6:16", "text": "And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 6:17", "text": "And offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Ezra 6:18", "text": "And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, who [is] at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Ezra 6:19", "text": "And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Ezra 6:20", "text": "For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them [were] pure, and [they] killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Ezra 6:21", "text": "And the children of Israel, who had returned from captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Ezra 6:22", "text": "And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Ezra 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 7:1", "text": "Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 7:2", "text": "The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 7:3", "text": "The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 7:4", "text": "The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 7:5", "text": "The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 7:6", "text": "This Ezra went from Babylon; and he [was] a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 7:7", "text": "And there went [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 7:8", "text": "And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 7:9", "text": "For upon the first [day] of the first month he began to go from Babylon, and on the first [day] of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 7:10", "text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 7:11", "text": "Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even] a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 7:12", "text": "Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect [peace], and at such a time." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 7:13", "text": "I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, who are disposed of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 7:14", "text": "Forasmuch as thou art sent by the king, and by his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which [is] in thy hand;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 7:15", "text": "And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 7:16", "text": "And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the free-will-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 7:17", "text": "That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which [is] in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Ezra 7:18", "text": "And whatever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do after the will of your God." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Ezra 7:19", "text": "The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, [those] deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Ezra 7:20", "text": "And whatever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow [it] out of the king's treasure-house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Ezra 7:21", "text": "And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who [are] beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Ezra 7:22", "text": "To a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Ezra 7:23", "text": "Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Ezra 7:24", "text": "Also we certify you, that concerning any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom upon them." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Ezra 7:25", "text": "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that [is] in thy hand, set magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that [are] beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know [them] not." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Ezra 7:26", "text": "And whoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether [it be] to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "Ezra 7:27", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, who hath put [such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "Ezra 7:28", "text": "And hath extended mercy to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God [was] upon me, and I assembled out of Israel chief men to go up with me." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Ezra 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 8:1", "text": "These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 8:2", "text": "Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 8:3", "text": "Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 8:4", "text": "Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 8:5", "text": "Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 8:6", "text": "Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 8:7", "text": "And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 8:8", "text": "And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 8:9", "text": "Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 8:10", "text": "And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and sixty males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 8:11", "text": "And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 8:12", "text": "And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 8:13", "text": "And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names [are] these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 8:14", "text": "Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 8:15", "text": "And I assembled them at the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we abode in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 8:16", "text": "Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 8:17", "text": "And I sent them with commandment to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo, [and] to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Ezra 8:18", "text": "And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Ezra 8:19", "text": "And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Ezra 8:20", "text": "Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Ezra 8:21", "text": "Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Ezra 8:22", "text": "For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Ezra 8:23", "text": "So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated by us." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Ezra 8:24", "text": "Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Ezra 8:25", "text": "And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Ezra 8:26", "text": "I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents, [and] of gold a hundred talents;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "Ezra 8:27", "text": "Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "Ezra 8:28", "text": "And I said to them, Ye [are] holy to the LORD; the vessels [are] holy also; and the silver and the gold [are] a free-will-offering to the LORD God of your fathers." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "Ezra 8:29", "text": "Watch ye, and keep [them], until ye weigh [them], before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "Ezra 8:30", "text": "So the priests and the Levites took the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring [them] to Jerusalem to the house of our God." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "Ezra 8:31", "text": "Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "Ezra 8:32", "text": "And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "Ezra 8:33", "text": "Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him [was] Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them [was] Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "Ezra 8:34", "text": "By number [and] by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "Ezra 8:35", "text": "[Also] the children of those that had been carried away, who had come out of the captivity, offered burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he-goats [for] a sin-offering: all [this was] a burnt-offering to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "name": "Ezra 8:36", "text": "And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side of the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Ezra 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 9:1", "text": "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 9:2", "text": "For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 9:3", "text": "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 9:4", "text": "Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat confounded until the evening sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 9:5", "text": "And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 9:6", "text": "And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 9:7", "text": "Since the days of our fathers [have] we [been] in a great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, [and] our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 9:8", "text": "And now for a little space grace hath been [shown] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 9:9", "text": "For we [were] bond-men; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 9:10", "text": "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 9:11", "text": "Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 9:12", "text": "Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave [it] for an inheritance to your children for ever." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 9:13", "text": "And after all that hath come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as this;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 9:14", "text": "Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 9:15", "text": "O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we having escaped, remain yet, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Ezra 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Ezra 10:1", "text": "Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very bitterly." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Ezra 10:2", "text": "And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken foreign wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Ezra 10:3", "text": "Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Ezra 10:4", "text": "Arise; for [this] matter [belongeth] to thee: we also [will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it]." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Ezra 10:5", "text": "Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. And they swore." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Ezra 10:6", "text": "Then Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came thither, he ate no bread, nor drank water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Ezra 10:7", "text": "And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble at Jerusalem;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Ezra 10:8", "text": "And that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Ezra 10:9", "text": "Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the ninth month, and the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of [this] matter, and for the great rain." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Ezra 10:10", "text": "And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken foreign wives to increase the trespass of Israel." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Ezra 10:11", "text": "Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the foreign wives." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Ezra 10:12", "text": "Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Ezra 10:13", "text": "But the people [are] many, and [it is] a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand abroad, neither [is this] a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Ezra 10:14", "text": "Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them who have taken foreign wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter shall be turned from us." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Ezra 10:15", "text": "Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Ezra 10:16", "text": "And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Ezra 10:17", "text": "And they made an end with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Ezra 10:18", "text": "And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Ezra 10:19", "text": "And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their trespass." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Ezra 10:20", "text": "And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Ezra 10:21", "text": "And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Ezra 10:22", "text": "And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Ezra 10:23", "text": "Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same [is] Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Ezra 10:24", "text": "Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Ezra 10:25", "text": "Moreover, of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Ezra 10:26", "text": "And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Ezra 10:27", "text": "And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Ezra 10:28", "text": "Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, [and] Athlai." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Ezra 10:29", "text": "And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Ezra 10:30", "text": "And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Ezra 10:31", "text": "And [of] the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Ezra 10:32", "text": "Benjamin, Malluch, [and] Shemariah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "name": "Ezra 10:33", "text": "Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, [and] Shimei." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "name": "Ezra 10:34", "text": "Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "name": "Ezra 10:35", "text": "Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "name": "Ezra 10:36", "text": "Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "name": "Ezra 10:37", "text": "Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "name": "Ezra 10:38", "text": "And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "name": "Ezra 10:39", "text": "And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "name": "Ezra 10:40", "text": "Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "name": "Ezra 10:41", "text": "Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "name": "Ezra 10:42", "text": "Shallum, Amariah, [and] Joseph." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 43, "name": "Ezra 10:43", "text": "Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 44, "name": "Ezra 10:44", "text": "All these had taken foreign wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had children." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 16, "name": "Nehemiah", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 1:1", "text": "The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 1:2", "text": "That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and [certain] men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 1:3", "text": "And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province [are] in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and its gates are burned with fire." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 1:4", "text": "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned [certain] days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 1:5", "text": "And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 1:6", "text": "Let thy ear now be attentive, and thy eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 1:7", "text": "We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 1:8", "text": "Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 1:9", "text": "But [if] ye turn to me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you driven to the uttermost part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set my name there." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 1:10", "text": "Now these [are] thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 1:11", "text": "O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cup-bearer." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 2:1", "text": "And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] to the king. Now I had not [before] been sad in his presence." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 2:2", "text": "Wherefore the king said to me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very greatly afraid," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 2:3", "text": "And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, [lieth] waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 2:4", "text": "Then the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 2:5", "text": "And I said to the king, If it should please the king, and if thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 2:6", "text": "And the king said to me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 2:7", "text": "Moreover, I said to the king, If it should please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 2:8", "text": "And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which [appertained] to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 2:9", "text": "Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 2:10", "text": "When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there had come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 2:11", "text": "So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 2:12", "text": "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 2:13", "text": "And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon-well, and to the dung-port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and their gates were consumed with fire." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 2:14", "text": "Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 2:15", "text": "Then I went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and [so] returned." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 2:16", "text": "And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told [it] to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 2:17", "text": "Then said I to them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and its gates are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 2:18", "text": "Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work]." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 2:19", "text": "But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 2:20", "text": "Then I answered them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 3:1", "text": "Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Meah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananeel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 3:2", "text": "And next to him built the men of Jericho. And next to them built Zaccur the son of Imri." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 3:3", "text": "But the fish-gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who [also] laid its beams, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 3:4", "text": "And next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 3:5", "text": "And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 3:6", "text": "Moreover, the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 3:7", "text": "And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, to the throne of the governor on this side of the river." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 3:8", "text": "Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next to him also repaired Hananiah the son of [one of] the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem to the broad wall." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 3:9", "text": "And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 3:10", "text": "And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 3:11", "text": "Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 3:12", "text": "And next to him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 3:13", "text": "The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits on the wall to the dung-gate." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 3:14", "text": "But the dung-gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 3:15", "text": "But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 3:16", "text": "After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, to [the place] over against the sepulchers of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 3:17", "text": "After him repaired the Levites Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 3:18", "text": "After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 3:19", "text": "And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the ascent to the armory, at the turning [of the wall]." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 3:20", "text": "After him Baruch the son of Zabbai, earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning [of the wall] to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 3:21", "text": "After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib, even to the end of the house of Eliashib." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 3:22", "text": "And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 3:23", "text": "After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub, over against their house. After him repaired Azariah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, by his house." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 3:24", "text": "After him repaired Binnui, the son of Henadad, another piece, from the house of Azariah to the turning [of the wall], even to the corner." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 3:25", "text": "Palal, the son of Uzai, over against the turning [of the wall], and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that [was] by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah, the son of Parosh." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 3:26", "text": "Moreover, the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, to [the place] over against the water-gate towards the east, and the projecting tower." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 3:27", "text": "After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great projecting tower, even to the wall of Ophel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 3:28", "text": "From above the horse-gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 3:29", "text": "After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 3:30", "text": "After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 3:31", "text": "After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son, to the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the ascent of the corner." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "name": "Nehemiah 3:32", "text": "And between the ascent of the corner to the sheep-gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 4:1", "text": "But it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 4:2", "text": "And he spoke before his brethren, and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 4:3", "text": "Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox should go up, he would even break down their stone wall." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 4:4", "text": "Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 4:5", "text": "And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 4:6", "text": "So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half of it, for the people had a mind to work." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 4:7", "text": "But it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were set up, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 4:8", "text": "And conspired all of them together to come [and] to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 4:9", "text": "Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 4:10", "text": "And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 4:11", "text": "And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 4:12", "text": "And it came to pass, that when the Jews who dwelt by them came, they said to us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return to us [they will be upon you]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 4:13", "text": "Therefore I set in the lower places behind the wall, [and] on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 4:14", "text": "And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be ye not afraid of them: remember the Lord [who is] great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 4:15", "text": "And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to naught, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 4:16", "text": "And it came to pass, from that time forth, [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of Judah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 4:17", "text": "They who built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that laded, [every one] with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a weapon." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 4:18", "text": "For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and [so] built. And he that sounded the trumpet [was] by me." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 4:19", "text": "And I said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work [is] great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 4:20", "text": "In what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither to us: our God will fight for us." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 4:21", "text": "So we labored in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 4:22", "text": "Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor in the day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 4:23", "text": "So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that] every one put them off for washing." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 5:1", "text": "And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 5:2", "text": "For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 5:3", "text": "[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 5:4", "text": "There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 5:5", "text": "Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought to bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 5:6", "text": "And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 5:7", "text": "Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact interest, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 5:8", "text": "And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, who were sold to the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold to us? Then they held their peace, and found nothing [to answer]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 5:9", "text": "Also I said, That [is] not good which ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 5:10", "text": "I likewise, my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 5:11", "text": "Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 5:12", "text": "Then said they, We will restore [them], and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 5:13", "text": "Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 5:14", "text": "Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 5:15", "text": "But the former governors, that [had been] before me were chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 5:16", "text": "Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants [were] gathered thither to the work." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 5:17", "text": "Moreover, [there were] at my table a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came to us from among the heathen that [were] about us." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 5:18", "text": "Now [that] which was prepared [for me] daily [was] one ox [and] six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days an abundance of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I required not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 5:19", "text": "Think upon me, my God, for good, [according] to all that I have done for this people." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 6:1", "text": "Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and [that] there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 6:2", "text": "That Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [some one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 6:3", "text": "And I sent messengers to them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 6:4", "text": "Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 6:5", "text": "Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 6:6", "text": "In which [was] written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith [it], [that] thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their king, according to these words." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 6:7", "text": "And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, [There is] a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 6:8", "text": "Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thy own heart." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 6:9", "text": "For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it may not be done. Now therefore, [O God], strengthen my hands." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 6:10", "text": "Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who [was] shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 6:11", "text": "And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who [is there], that, [being] as I [am], would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 6:12", "text": "And lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 6:13", "text": "Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and [that] they might have [matter] for an evil report, that they might reproach me." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 6:14", "text": "My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 6:15", "text": "So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 6:16", "text": "And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard [of it], and all the heathen that [were] about us saw [these things], they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought by our God." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 6:17", "text": "Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 6:18", "text": "For [there were] many in Judah sworn to him, because he [was] the son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 6:19", "text": "Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. [And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 7:1", "text": "Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 7:2", "text": "That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he [was] a faithful man, and feared God above many." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 7:3", "text": "And I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun shall be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar [them]: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one [to be] over against his house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 7:4", "text": "Now the city [was] large and great: but the people in it [were] few, and the houses [were] not built." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 7:5", "text": "And my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them who came up at the first, and found written in it," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 7:6", "text": "These [are] the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 7:7", "text": "Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, [I say], of the men of the people of Israel [was this];" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 7:8", "text": "The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 7:9", "text": "The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 7:10", "text": "The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 7:11", "text": "The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred [and] eighteen." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 7:12", "text": "The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 7:13", "text": "The children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty five." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 7:14", "text": "The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 7:15", "text": "The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 7:16", "text": "The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 7:17", "text": "The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 7:18", "text": "The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty seven." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 7:19", "text": "The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty seven." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 7:20", "text": "The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty five." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 7:21", "text": "The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 7:22", "text": "The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 7:23", "text": "The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty four." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 7:24", "text": "The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 7:25", "text": "The children of Gibeon, ninety five." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 7:26", "text": "The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 7:27", "text": "The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 7:28", "text": "The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 7:29", "text": "The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty three." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 7:30", "text": "The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred and twenty one." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 7:31", "text": "The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "name": "Nehemiah 7:32", "text": "The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty three." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "name": "Nehemiah 7:33", "text": "The men of the other Nebo, fifty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "name": "Nehemiah 7:34", "text": "The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "name": "Nehemiah 7:35", "text": "The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "name": "Nehemiah 7:36", "text": "The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty five." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "name": "Nehemiah 7:37", "text": "The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty one." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "name": "Nehemiah 7:38", "text": "The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "name": "Nehemiah 7:39", "text": "The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy three." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "name": "Nehemiah 7:40", "text": "The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "name": "Nehemiah 7:41", "text": "The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred and forty seven." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "name": "Nehemiah 7:42", "text": "The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "name": "Nehemiah 7:43", "text": "The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, [and] of the children of Hodevah, seventy four." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "name": "Nehemiah 7:44", "text": "The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty eight." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "name": "Nehemiah 7:45", "text": "The porters: 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." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "name": "Nehemiah 7:46", "text": "The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "name": "Nehemiah 7:47", "text": "The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "name": "Nehemiah 7:48", "text": "The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "name": "Nehemiah 7:49", "text": "The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "name": "Nehemiah 7:50", "text": "The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "name": "Nehemiah 7:51", "text": "The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 52, "name": "Nehemiah 7:52", "text": "The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 53, "name": "Nehemiah 7:53", "text": "The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 54, "name": "Nehemiah 7:54", "text": "The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 55, "name": "Nehemiah 7:55", "text": "The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 56, "name": "Nehemiah 7:56", "text": "The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 57, "name": "Nehemiah 7:57", "text": "The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 58, "name": "Nehemiah 7:58", "text": "The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 59, "name": "Nehemiah 7:59", "text": "The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 60, "name": "Nehemiah 7:60", "text": "All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred and ninety two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 61, "name": "Nehemiah 7:61", "text": "And these [were] they who went up [also] from Tel-mela, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their fathers house, nor their seed, whether they [were] of Israel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 62, "name": "Nehemiah 7:62", "text": "The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty two." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 63, "name": "Nehemiah 7:63", "text": "And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took [one] of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite for a wife, and was called after their name." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 64, "name": "Nehemiah 7:64", "text": "These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 65, "name": "Nehemiah 7:65", "text": "And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand [up] a priest with Urim and Thummim." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 66, "name": "Nehemiah 7:66", "text": "The whole congregation together [was] forty two thousand three hundred and sixty." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 67, "name": "Nehemiah 7:67", "text": "Besides their man-servants and their maid-servants, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred and thirty seven: and they had two hundred and forty five singing-men and singing-women." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 68, "name": "Nehemiah 7:68", "text": "Their horses, seven hundred and thirty six: their mules, two hundred and forty five:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 69, "name": "Nehemiah 7:69", "text": "[Their] camels, four hundred and thirty five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 70, "name": "Nehemiah 7:70", "text": "And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 71, "name": "Nehemiah 7:71", "text": "And [some] of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 72, "name": "Nehemiah 7:72", "text": "And [that] which the rest of the people gave [was] twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty seven priests' garments." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 73, "name": "Nehemiah 7:73", "text": "So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 8:1", "text": "And all the people assembled as one man in the street that [was] before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 8:2", "text": "And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 8:3", "text": "And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water-gate from the morning until mid-day, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people [were attentive] to the book of the law." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 8:4", "text": "And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 8:5", "text": "And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 8:6", "text": "And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshiped the LORD with [their] faces to the ground." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 8:7", "text": "Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 8:8", "text": "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 8:9", "text": "And Nehemiah, who [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said to all the people, This day [is] holy to the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 8:10", "text": "Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared: for [this] day [is] holy to our Lord: neither be ye sad; for the joy of the LORD is your strength." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 8:11", "text": "So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 8:12", "text": "And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 8:13", "text": "And on the second day were assembled the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 8:14", "text": "And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 8:15", "text": "And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as [it is] written." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 8:16", "text": "So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water-gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 8:17", "text": "And all the congregation of them that had returned from the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day, had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 8:18", "text": "Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day [was] a solemn assembly, according to the manner." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 9:1", "text": "Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 9:2", "text": "And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 9:3", "text": "And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God [one] fourth part of the day; and [another] fourth part they confessed, and worshiped the LORD their God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 9:4", "text": "Then stood upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 9:5", "text": "Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up [and] bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 9:6", "text": "Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all [things] that [are] in it, the seas, and all that [is] in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshipeth thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 9:7", "text": "Thou [art] the LORD the God, who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth from Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 9:8", "text": "And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him, to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give [it], [I say], to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou [art] righteous:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 9:9", "text": "And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 9:10", "text": "And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as [it is] this day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 9:11", "text": "And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 9:12", "text": "Moreover, thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way in which they should go." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 9:13", "text": "Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spokest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 9:14", "text": "And madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 9:15", "text": "And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 9:16", "text": "But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 9:17", "text": "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst perform among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou [art] a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 9:18", "text": "Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This [is] thy God that brought thee out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 9:19", "text": "Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 9:20", "text": "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 9:21", "text": "Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 9:22", "text": "Moreover, thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 9:23", "text": "Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess [it]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 9:24", "text": "So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 9:25", "text": "And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they ate and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 9:26", "text": "Nevertheless, they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 9:27", "text": "Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to thee, thou hearedest [them] from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them deliverers, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 9:28", "text": "But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned and cried to thee, thou hearedest [them] from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 9:29", "text": "And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again to thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man doeth, he shall live in them:) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 9:30", "text": "Yet many years didst thou forbear over them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore thou gavest them into the hand of the people of the lands." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 9:31", "text": "Nevertheless, for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou [art] a gracious and merciful God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "Nehemiah 9:32", "text": "Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "name": "Nehemiah 9:33", "text": "But thou [art] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "name": "Nehemiah 9:34", "text": "Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies, with which thou didst testify against them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "name": "Nehemiah 9:35", "text": "For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "name": "Nehemiah 9:36", "text": "Behold, we [are] servants this day, and [for] the land that thou gavest to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we [are] servants in it:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "name": "Nehemiah 9:37", "text": "And it yieldeth much increase to the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we [are] in great distress." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "name": "Nehemiah 9:38", "text": "And because of all this we make a sure [covenant], and write [it]; and our princes, Levites, [and] priests, set their seals [to it]." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 10:1", "text": "Now those that sealed [were], Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 10:2", "text": "Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 10:3", "text": "Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 10:4", "text": "Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 10:5", "text": "Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 10:6", "text": "Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 10:7", "text": "Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 10:8", "text": "Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these [were] the priests." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 10:9", "text": "And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 10:10", "text": "And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 10:11", "text": "Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 10:12", "text": "Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 10:13", "text": "Hodijah, Bani, Beninu," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 10:14", "text": "The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 10:15", "text": "Bunni, Azgad, Bebai," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 10:16", "text": "Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 10:17", "text": "Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 10:18", "text": "Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 10:19", "text": "Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 10:20", "text": "Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 10:21", "text": "Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 10:22", "text": "Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 10:23", "text": "Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 10:24", "text": "Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 10:25", "text": "Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 10:26", "text": "And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 10:27", "text": "Malluch, Harim, Baanah." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 10:28", "text": "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 10:29", "text": "They united with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 10:30", "text": "And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 10:31", "text": "And [if] the people of the land should bring wares or any provisions on the sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Nehemiah 10:32", "text": "Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "name": "Nehemiah 10:33", "text": "For the show-bread, and for the continual meat-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "name": "Nehemiah 10:34", "text": "And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "name": "Nehemiah 10:35", "text": "And to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "name": "Nehemiah 10:36", "text": "Also the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as [it is] written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests that minister in the house of our God:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "name": "Nehemiah 10:37", "text": "And [that] we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "name": "Nehemiah 10:38", "text": "And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "name": "Nehemiah 10:39", "text": "For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, to the chambers, where [are] the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 11:1", "text": "And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts [to dwell] in [other] cities." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 11:2", "text": "And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 11:3", "text": "Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 11:4", "text": "And at Jerusalem dwelt [certain] of the children of Judah, and of the children 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 Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 11:5", "text": "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 Shiloni." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 11:6", "text": "All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem [were] four hundred sixty and eight valiant men." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 11:7", "text": "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 Jesaiah." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 11:8", "text": "And after him, Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 11:9", "text": "And Joel the son of Zichri [was] their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah [was] second over the city." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 11:10", "text": "Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 11:11", "text": "Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, [was] the ruler of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 11:12", "text": "And their brethren that performed the work of the house [were] eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 11:13", "text": "And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 11:14", "text": "And their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer [was] Zabdiel, the son of [one of] the great men." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 11:15", "text": "Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 11:16", "text": "And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, [had] the oversight of the outward business of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 11:17", "text": "And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, [was] the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 11:18", "text": "All the Levites in the holy city [were] two hundred and eighty four." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 11:19", "text": "Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, [were] an hundred and seventy two." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 11:20", "text": "And the residue of Israel, of the priests, [and] the Levites, [were] in all the cities of Judah every one in his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 11:21", "text": "But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa [were] over the Nethinims." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 11:22", "text": "The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem [was] Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers [were] over the business of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 11:23", "text": "For [it was] the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 11:24", "text": "And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah [was] at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 11:25", "text": "And for the villages, with their fields, [some] of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and [in] its villages, and at Dibon, and [in] its villages, and at Jekabzeel, and [in] its villages," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 11:26", "text": "And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 11:27", "text": "And at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and [in] its villages," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 11:28", "text": "And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in its villages," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 11:29", "text": "And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 11:30", "text": "Zanoah, Adullam, and [in] their villages, at Lachish, and its fields, at Azekah, and [in] its villages. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 11:31", "text": "The children also of Benjamin from Geba [dwelt] at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and [in] their villages." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "name": "Nehemiah 11:32", "text": "[And] at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "name": "Nehemiah 11:33", "text": "Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "name": "Nehemiah 11:34", "text": "Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "name": "Nehemiah 11:35", "text": "Lod, and Ono, the valley of artificers." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "name": "Nehemiah 11:36", "text": "And of the Levites [were] divisions [in] Judah, [and] in Benjamin." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 12:1", "text": "Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 12:2", "text": "Amariah, Malluch, Hattush," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 12:3", "text": "Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 12:4", "text": "Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 12:5", "text": "Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 12:6", "text": "Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 12:7", "text": "Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These [were] the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 12:8", "text": "Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, [who was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 12:9", "text": "Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, [were] over against them in the watches." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 12:10", "text": "And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 12:11", "text": "And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 12:12", "text": "And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 12:13", "text": "Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 12:14", "text": "Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 12:15", "text": "Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 12:16", "text": "Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 12:17", "text": "Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 12:18", "text": "Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 12:19", "text": "And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 12:20", "text": "Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 12:21", "text": "Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 12:22", "text": "The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, [were] recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 12:23", "text": "The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, [were] written in the book of the chronicles, even till the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 12:24", "text": "And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise [and] to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 12:25", "text": "Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, [were] porters keeping the ward at the threshholds of the gates." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 12:26", "text": "These [were] in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 12:27", "text": "And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, [with] cymbals, psalteries, and with harps." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 12:28", "text": "And the sons of the singers assembled, both out of the plain country around Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 12:29", "text": "Also from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages around Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 12:30", "text": "And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 12:31", "text": "Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great [companies of them that gave] thanks, [of which one] went on the right hand upon the wall towards the dung-gate:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "name": "Nehemiah 12:32", "text": "And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "name": "Nehemiah 12:33", "text": "And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "name": "Nehemiah 12:34", "text": "Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "name": "Nehemiah 12:35", "text": "And [certain] of the priests' sons with trumpets; [namely], Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "name": "Nehemiah 12:36", "text": "And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "name": "Nehemiah 12:37", "text": "And at the fountain-gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water-gate eastward." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "name": "Nehemiah 12:38", "text": "And the other [company of them that gave] thanks went over against [them], and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to the broad wall;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "name": "Nehemiah 12:39", "text": "And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep-gate: and they stood still in the prison-gate." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "name": "Nehemiah 12:40", "text": "So stood the two [companies of them that gave] thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "name": "Nehemiah 12:41", "text": "And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, [and] Hananiah, with trumpets;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "name": "Nehemiah 12:42", "text": "And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah [their] overseer." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "name": "Nehemiah 12:43", "text": "Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "name": "Nehemiah 12:44", "text": "And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "name": "Nehemiah 12:45", "text": "And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, [and] of Solomon his son." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "name": "Nehemiah 12:46", "text": "For in the days of David, and Asaph of old [there were] chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "name": "Nehemiah 12:47", "text": "And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified [holy things] to the Levites; and the Levites sanctified [them] to the children of Aaron." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Nehemiah 13:1", "text": "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Nehemiah 13:2", "text": "Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Baalam against them, that he should curse them: but our God turned the curse into a blessing." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Nehemiah 13:3", "text": "Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Nehemiah 13:4", "text": "And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, [was] allied to Tobiah:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Nehemiah 13:5", "text": "And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the meat-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded [to be given] to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Nehemiah 13:6", "text": "But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king, and after certain days I obtained leave of the king:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Nehemiah 13:7", "text": "And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Nehemiah 13:8", "text": "And it grieved me greatly: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Nehemiah 13:9", "text": "Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither I brought again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat-offering and the frankincense." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Nehemiah 13:10", "text": "And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given [them]: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, had fled every one to his field." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Nehemiah 13:11", "text": "Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? and I assembled them, and set them in their place." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Nehemiah 13:12", "text": "Then all Judah brought the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil to the treasuries." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Nehemiah 13:13", "text": "And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them [was] Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were accounted faithful; and their office [was] to distribute to their brethren." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Nehemiah 13:14", "text": "Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its offices." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Nehemiah 13:15", "text": "In those days I saw in Judah [some] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold provisions." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Nehemiah 13:16", "text": "There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Nehemiah 13:17", "text": "Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing [is] this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Nehemiah 13:18", "text": "Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Nehemiah 13:19", "text": "And it came to pass, that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and I set [some] of my servants at the gates, [that] there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Nehemiah 13:20", "text": "So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged without Jerusalem once or twice." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Nehemiah 13:21", "text": "Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth they came no [more] on the sabbath." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Nehemiah 13:22", "text": "And I commanded the Levites, that they should cleanse themselves, and [that] they should come [and] keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, [concerning] this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Nehemiah 13:23", "text": "In those days also I saw Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Nehemiah 13:24", "text": "And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Nehemiah 13:25", "text": "And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "Nehemiah 13:26", "text": "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "Nehemiah 13:27", "text": "Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "Nehemiah 13:28", "text": "And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, [was] son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "name": "Nehemiah 13:29", "text": "Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "name": "Nehemiah 13:30", "text": "Thus I cleansed them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "name": "Nehemiah 13:31", "text": "And for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 17, "name": "Esther", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Esther 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 1:1", "text": "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this [is] Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Cush, [over] a hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 1:2", "text": "[That] in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which [was] in Shushan the palace," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 1:3", "text": "In the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 1:4", "text": "When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, [even] a hundred and eighty days." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 1:5", "text": "And when these days had expired, the king made a feast for all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both for great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 1:6", "text": "[Where were] white, green, and blue [hangings], fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 1:7", "text": "And they gave [them] drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 1:8", "text": "And the drinking [was] according to the law; none constrained: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 1:9", "text": "Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 1:10", "text": "On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 1:11", "text": "To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she [was] fair to look on." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 1:12", "text": "But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by [his] chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 1:13", "text": "Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for so [was] the king's manner towards all that knew law and judgment:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 1:14", "text": "And the next to him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, [and] who sat the first in the kingdom;)" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Esther 1:15", "text": "What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Esther 1:16", "text": "And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Esther 1:17", "text": "For [this] deed of the queen will come abroad to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Esther 1:18", "text": "[Likewise] will the ladies of Persia and Media say this day to all the king's princes, who have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus [will there arise] too much contempt and wrath." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Esther 1:19", "text": "If it pleaseth the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another that is better than she." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Esther 1:20", "text": "And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Esther 1:21", "text": "And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Esther 1:22", "text": "For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that [it] should be published according to the language of every people." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Esther 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 2:1", "text": "After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 2:2", "text": "Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 2:3", "text": "And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may collect all the fair young virgins to Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, into the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given [them]:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 2:4", "text": "And let the maiden who pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 2:5", "text": "[Now] in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name [was] Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 2:6", "text": "Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 2:7", "text": "And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 2:8", "text": "So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree were heard, and when many maidens were assembled at Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also to the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 2:9", "text": "And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens [who were] meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids to the best [place] of the house of the women." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 2:10", "text": "Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show [it]." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 2:11", "text": "And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 2:12", "text": "Now when every maid's turn had come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with [other] things for the purifying of the women;)" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 2:13", "text": "Then thus came [every] maiden to the king; whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 2:14", "text": "In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in to the king no more, except that the king delighted in her, and she was called by name." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Esther 2:15", "text": "Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, had come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Esther 2:16", "text": "So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Esther 2:17", "text": "And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Esther 2:18", "text": "Then the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, [even] Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Esther 2:19", "text": "And when the virgins were assembled the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Esther 2:20", "text": "Esther had not [yet] showed her kindred, nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther performed the commandment of Mordecai, as when she was brought up with him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Esther 2:21", "text": "In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those who kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Esther 2:22", "text": "And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told [it] to Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king [of it] in Mordecai's name." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Esther 2:23", "text": "And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was discovered; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Esther 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 3:1", "text": "After these things king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that [were] with him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 3:2", "text": "And all the king's servants that [were] in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did [him] reverence." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 3:3", "text": "Then the king's servants who [were] in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why dost thou transgress the king's commandment?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 3:4", "text": "Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he hearkened not to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he [was] a Jew." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 3:5", "text": "And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 3:6", "text": "And he scorned to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shown him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, [even] the people of Mordecai." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 3:7", "text": "In the first month, (that [is], the month Nisan,) in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 3:8", "text": "And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 3:9", "text": "If it shall please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 3:10", "text": "And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews enemy." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 3:11", "text": "And the king said to Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 3:12", "text": "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that [were] over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province, according to the writing of it, and [to] every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 3:13", "text": "And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, [even] upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 3:14", "text": "The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province, was published to all people, that they should be ready against that day." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Esther 3:15", "text": "The posts departed, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Esther 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 4:1", "text": "When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 4:2", "text": "And came even before the king's gate: for none [might] enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 4:3", "text": "And in every province whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 4:4", "text": "So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told [it] to her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received [it] not." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 4:5", "text": "Then called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was], and why it [was]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 4:6", "text": "So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, to the street of the city, which [was] before the king's gate." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 4:7", "text": "And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 4:8", "text": "Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show [it] to Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 4:9", "text": "And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 4:10", "text": "Again Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment to Mordecai;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 4:11", "text": "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, [there is] one law of his to put [him] to death, except him to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 4:12", "text": "And they told to Mordecai Esther's words." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 4:13", "text": "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 4:14", "text": "For if thou shalt altogether hold thy peace at this time, [then] will there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house will be destroyed: and who knoweth, whether thou hast come to the kingdom for [such] a time as this?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Esther 4:15", "text": "Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer]," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Esther 4:16", "text": "Go, assemble all the Jews [that are] present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in to the king, which [is] not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Esther 4:17", "text": "So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Esther 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 5:1", "text": "Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on [her] royal [apparel], and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 5:2", "text": "And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, [that] she obtained favor in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that [was] in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 5:3", "text": "Then said the king to her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 5:4", "text": "And Esther answered, If [it shall seem] good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 5:5", "text": "Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 5:6", "text": "And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 5:7", "text": "Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request [is]:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 5:8", "text": "If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it shall please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the king hath said." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 5:9", "text": "Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 5:10", "text": "Nevertheless, Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 5:11", "text": "And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 5:12", "text": "Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow I am invited to her also with the king." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 5:13", "text": "Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 5:14", "text": "Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and to-morrow speak thou to the king that Mordecai may be hanged upon it: then go thou in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Esther 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 6:1", "text": "In that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 6:2", "text": "And it was found written, that Mordecai had informed of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 6:3", "text": "And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, There is nothing done for him." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 6:4", "text": "And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 6:5", "text": "And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 6:6", "text": "So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 6:7", "text": "And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 6:8", "text": "Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth] to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 6:9", "text": "And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delighteth to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 6:10", "text": "Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, [and] take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 6:11", "text": "Then Haman took the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 6:12", "text": "And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 6:13", "text": "And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai [is] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou wilt not prevail against him, but wilt surely fall before him." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 6:14", "text": "And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Esther 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 7:1", "text": "So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 7:2", "text": "And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? and it shall be performed, [even] to the half of the kingdom." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 7:3", "text": "Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it shall please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 7:4", "text": "For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 7:5", "text": "Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 7:6", "text": "And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 7:7", "text": "And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath [went] into the palace-garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 7:8", "text": "Then the king returned out of the palace-garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen upon the bed on which Esther [was]. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 7:9", "text": "And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him upon it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 7:10", "text": "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Esther 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 8:1", "text": "On that day the king Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he [was] to her." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 8:2", "text": "And the king took off his ring which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 8:3", "text": "And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 8:4", "text": "Then the king held out the golden scepter towards Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 8:5", "text": "And said, If it shall please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing [shall seem] right before the king, and I [am] pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who [are] in all the king's provinces:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 8:6", "text": "For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 8:7", "text": "Then the king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 8:8", "text": "Write ye also for the Jews, as it pleaseth you, in the king's name, and seal [it] with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, no man may reverse." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 8:9", "text": "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that [is], the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] of it; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which [are] from India to Cush, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 8:10", "text": "And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus's name, and sealed [it] with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, [and] riders on mules, camels, [and] young dromedaries:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 8:11", "text": "In which the king granted the Jews who [were] in every city to assemble, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [both] little ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 8:12", "text": "Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 8:13", "text": "The copy of the writing for a commandment, to be given in every province [was] published to all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 8:14", "text": "[So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Esther 8:15", "text": "And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced, and was glad:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Esther 8:16", "text": "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Esther 8:17", "text": "And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Esther 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 9:1", "text": "Now in the twelfth month, that [is], the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 9:2", "text": "The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 9:3", "text": "And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Esther 9:4", "text": "For Mordecai [was] great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai became greater and greater." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Esther 9:5", "text": "Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Esther 9:6", "text": "And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Esther 9:7", "text": "And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Esther 9:8", "text": "And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Esther 9:9", "text": "And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Esther 9:10", "text": "The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, they slew; but on the spoil they laid not their hand." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Esther 9:11", "text": "On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Esther 9:12", "text": "And the king said to Esther the queen, the Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what [is] thy request further? and it shall be done." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Esther 9:13", "text": "Then said Esther, If it shall please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who [are] in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Esther 9:14", "text": "And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Esther 9:15", "text": "For the Jews that [were] in Shushan assembled on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Esther 9:16", "text": "But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces assembled, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, (but they laid not their hands on the prey.)" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Esther 9:17", "text": "On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Esther 9:18", "text": "But the Jews that [were] at Shushan assembled on the thirteenth [day] of the month, and on the fourteenth of it: and on the fifteenth [day] of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Esther 9:19", "text": "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Esther 9:20", "text": "And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews that [were] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, [both] nigh and far," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Esther 9:21", "text": "To establish [this] among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Esther 9:22", "text": "As the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Esther 9:23", "text": "And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Esther 9:24", "text": "Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that [is], the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Esther 9:25", "text": "But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Esther 9:26", "text": "Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and [of that] which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Esther 9:27", "text": "The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves to them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their [appointed] time every year;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Esther 9:28", "text": "And [that] these days [should be] remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and [that] these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Esther 9:29", "text": "Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "Esther 9:30", "text": "And he sent the letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "Esther 9:31", "text": "To confirm these days of Purim in their times [appointed], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "Esther 9:32", "text": "And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Esther 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Esther 10:1", "text": "And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and [upon] the isles of the sea." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Esther 10:2", "text": "And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Esther 10:3", "text": "For Mordecai the Jew [was] next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 18, "name": "Job", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Job 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 1:1", "text": "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 1:2", "text": "And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 1:3", "text": "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 1:4", "text": "And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 1:5", "text": "And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were ended, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings [according] to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 1:6", "text": "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 1:7", "text": "And the LORD said to Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down upon it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 1:8", "text": "And the LORD said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 1:9", "text": "Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 1:10", "text": "Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 1:11", "text": "But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 1:12", "text": "And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 1:13", "text": "And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 1:14", "text": "And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 1:15", "text": "And the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only have escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 1:16", "text": "While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God hath fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only have escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 1:17", "text": "While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yes, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only have escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 1:18", "text": "While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 1:19", "text": "And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only have escaped alone to tell thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 1:20", "text": "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 1:21", "text": "And said, Naked came I from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 1:22", "text": "In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Job 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 2:1", "text": "Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 2:2", "text": "And the LORD said to Satan, Whence comest thou? and Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down upon it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 2:3", "text": "And the LORD said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 2:4", "text": "And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, even, all that a man hath will he give for his life." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 2:5", "text": "But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 2:6", "text": "And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he [is] in thy hand; but save his life." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 2:7", "text": "So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 2:8", "text": "And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with [it]; and he sat down among the ashes." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 2:9", "text": "Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 2:10", "text": "But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 2:11", "text": "Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 2:12", "text": "And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they raised their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 2:13", "text": "So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Job 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 3:1", "text": "After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 3:2", "text": "And Job spoke, and said," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 3:3", "text": "Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail child conceived." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 3:4", "text": "Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 3:5", "text": "Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 3:6", "text": "As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 3:7", "text": "Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 3:8", "text": "Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 3:9", "text": "Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 3:10", "text": "Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 3:11", "text": "Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 3:12", "text": "Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 3:13", "text": "For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 3:14", "text": "With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 3:15", "text": "Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 3:16", "text": "Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 3:17", "text": "There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 3:18", "text": "[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 3:19", "text": "The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 3:20", "text": "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 3:21", "text": "Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 3:22", "text": "Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 3:23", "text": "[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 3:24", "text": "For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 3:25", "text": "For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 3:26", "text": "I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Job 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 4:1", "text": "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 4:2", "text": "[If] we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 4:3", "text": "Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 4:4", "text": "Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 4:5", "text": "But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 4:6", "text": "[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 4:7", "text": "Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 4:8", "text": "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 4:9", "text": "By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 4:10", "text": "The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 4:11", "text": "The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 4:12", "text": "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 4:13", "text": "In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 4:14", "text": "Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 4:15", "text": "Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 4:16", "text": "It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image [was] before my eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 4:17", "text": "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 4:18", "text": "Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 4:19", "text": "How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before the moth?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 4:20", "text": "They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 4:21", "text": "Doth not their excellence [which is] in them depart? they die, even without wisdom." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Job 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 5:1", "text": "Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 5:2", "text": "For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 5:3", "text": "I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 5:4", "text": "His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 5:5", "text": "Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 5:6", "text": "Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 5:7", "text": "Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 5:8", "text": "I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 5:9", "text": "Who doeth great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 5:10", "text": "Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 5:11", "text": "To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 5:12", "text": "He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 5:13", "text": "He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 5:14", "text": "They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 5:15", "text": "But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 5:16", "text": "So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 5:17", "text": "Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 5:18", "text": "For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 5:19", "text": "He will deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 5:20", "text": "In famine he will redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 5:21", "text": "Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 5:22", "text": "At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 5:23", "text": "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 5:24", "text": "And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [will be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 5:25", "text": "Thou shalt know also that thy seed [will be] great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 5:26", "text": "Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 5:27", "text": "Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Job 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 6:1", "text": "But Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 6:2", "text": "Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 6:3", "text": "For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 6:4", "text": "For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison of which drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 6:5", "text": "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 6:6", "text": "Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 6:7", "text": "The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful food." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 6:8", "text": "Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 6:9", "text": "Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 6:10", "text": "Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 6:11", "text": "What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] my end, that I should prolong my life?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 6:12", "text": "[Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 6:13", "text": "[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 6:14", "text": "To him that is afflicted pity [should be shown] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 6:15", "text": "My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 6:16", "text": "Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] in which the snow is hid:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 6:17", "text": "In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 6:18", "text": "The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 6:19", "text": "The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 6:20", "text": "They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 6:21", "text": "For now ye are nothing: ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 6:22", "text": "Did I say, Bring to me? or Give a reward for me of your substance?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 6:23", "text": "Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 6:24", "text": "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand in what I have erred." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 6:25", "text": "How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 6:26", "text": "Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 6:27", "text": "Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 6:28", "text": "Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident to you if I lie." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 6:29", "text": "Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness [is] in it." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 6:30", "text": "Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?" } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Job 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 7:1", "text": "[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of a hireling?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 7:2", "text": "As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 7:3", "text": "So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 7:4", "text": "When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 7:5", "text": "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 7:6", "text": "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 7:7", "text": "O remember that my life [is] wind: my eye will no more see good." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 7:8", "text": "The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thy eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 7:9", "text": "[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 7:10", "text": "He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 7:11", "text": "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 7:12", "text": "[Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 7:13", "text": "When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 7:14", "text": "Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 7:15", "text": "So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 7:16", "text": "I lothe [it]; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 7:17", "text": "What [is] man, that thou shouldst magnify him? and that thou shouldst set thy heart upon him?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 7:18", "text": "And [that] thou shouldst visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 7:19", "text": "How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 7:20", "text": "I have sinned; what shall I do to thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 7:21", "text": "And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be]." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Job 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 8:1", "text": "Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 8:2", "text": "How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 8:3", "text": "Doth God pervert judgment; or doth the Almighty pervert justice?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 8:4", "text": "If thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 8:5", "text": "If thou wouldst seek to God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 8:6", "text": "If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 8:7", "text": "Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 8:8", "text": "For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 8:9", "text": "(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 8:10", "text": "Will they not teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 8:11", "text": "Can the rush grow without mire? can the flag grow without water?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 8:12", "text": "Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 8:13", "text": "So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 8:14", "text": "Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 8:15", "text": "He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 8:16", "text": "He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 8:17", "text": "His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 8:18", "text": "If he shall destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 8:19", "text": "Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 8:20", "text": "Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 8:21", "text": "Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 8:22", "text": "They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to naught." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Job 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 9:1", "text": "Then Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 9:2", "text": "I know [it to be] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 9:3", "text": "If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 9:4", "text": "[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 9:5", "text": "Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 9:6", "text": "Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and its pillars tremble." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 9:7", "text": "Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 9:8", "text": "Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 9:9", "text": "Who maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 9:10", "text": "Who doeth great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 9:11", "text": "Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 9:12", "text": "Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What doest thou?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 9:13", "text": "[If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 9:14", "text": "How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason] with him?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 9:15", "text": "Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 9:16", "text": "If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 9:17", "text": "For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 9:18", "text": "He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 9:19", "text": "If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 9:20", "text": "If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, that also will prove me perverse." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 9:21", "text": "[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 9:22", "text": "This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 9:23", "text": "If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 9:24", "text": "The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 9:25", "text": "Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 9:26", "text": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 9:27", "text": "If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 9:28", "text": "I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 9:29", "text": "[If] I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 9:30", "text": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 9:31", "text": "Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 9:32", "text": "For [he is] not a man, as I [am], [that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 9:33", "text": "Neither is there any judge between us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 9:34", "text": "Let him take away his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "name": "Job 9:35", "text": "[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Job 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 10:1", "text": "My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 10:2", "text": "I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 10:3", "text": "[Is it] good to thee that thou shouldst oppress, that thou shouldst despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 10:4", "text": "Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 10:5", "text": "[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 10:6", "text": "That thou inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 10:7", "text": "Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thy hand." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 10:8", "text": "Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 10:9", "text": "Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 10:10", "text": "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 10:11", "text": "Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 10:12", "text": "Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 10:13", "text": "And these [things] hast thou hid in thy heart: I know that this [is] with thee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 10:14", "text": "If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 10:15", "text": "If I be wicked, woe to me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou my affliction;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 10:16", "text": "For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself wonderful upon me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 10:17", "text": "Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 10:18", "text": "Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 10:19", "text": "I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 10:20", "text": "[Are] not my days few? cease [then], [and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little," }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 10:21", "text": "Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness, and the shades of death;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 10:22", "text": "A land of darkness, as darkness [itself]; [and] of the shades of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Job 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 11:1", "text": "Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said," }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 11:2", "text": "Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 11:3", "text": "Should thy falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 11:4", "text": "For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thy eyes." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 11:5", "text": "But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 11:6", "text": "And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thy iniquity [deserveth]." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 11:7", "text": "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 11:8", "text": "[It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 11:9", "text": "The measure of it [is] longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 11:10", "text": "If he shall cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 11:11", "text": "For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 11:12", "text": "For vain man would be wise, though man is born [like] a wild ass's colt." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 11:13", "text": "If thou preparest thy heart, and stretchest out thy hands towards him;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 11:14", "text": "If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 11:15", "text": "For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yes, thou shalt be steadfast, and shalt not fear:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 11:16", "text": "Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 11:17", "text": "And [thy] age shall be clearer than the noon-day: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 11:18", "text": "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yes, thou shalt dig [about thee], [and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 11:19", "text": "Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make [thee] afraid; yes, many shall make suit to thee." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 11:20", "text": "But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the expiration of the breath." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Job 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 12:1", "text": "And Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 12:2", "text": "No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 12:3", "text": "But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yes, who knoweth not such things as these?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 12:4", "text": "I am [as] one mocked by his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] derided." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 12:5", "text": "He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 12:6", "text": "The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 12:7", "text": "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 12:8", "text": "Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 12:9", "text": "Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 12:10", "text": "In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 12:11", "text": "Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste its food?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 12:12", "text": "With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 12:13", "text": "With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 12:14", "text": "Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 12:15", "text": "Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 12:16", "text": "With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver [are] his." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 12:17", "text": "He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 12:18", "text": "He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 12:19", "text": "He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 12:20", "text": "He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 12:21", "text": "He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 12:22", "text": "He revealeth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth to light the shades of death." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 12:23", "text": "He increaseth nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth nations, and straiteneth them [again]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 12:24", "text": "He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no way." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 12:25", "text": "They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man]." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Job 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 13:1", "text": "Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 13:2", "text": "What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior to you." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 13:3", "text": "Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 13:4", "text": "But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 13:5", "text": "O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 13:6", "text": "Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 13:7", "text": "Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 13:8", "text": "Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 13:9", "text": "Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 13:10", "text": "He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 13:11", "text": "Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 13:12", "text": "Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 13:13", "text": "Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will]." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 13:14", "text": "Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 13:15", "text": "Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 13:16", "text": "He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 13:17", "text": "Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 13:18", "text": "Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 13:19", "text": "Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 13:20", "text": "Only do not two [things] to me: then will I not hide myself from thee." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 13:21", "text": "Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 13:22", "text": "Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 13:23", "text": "How many [are] my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 13:24", "text": "Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 13:25", "text": "Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 13:26", "text": "For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 13:27", "text": "Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 13:28", "text": "And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Job 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 14:1", "text": "Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 14:2", "text": "He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 14:3", "text": "And dost thou open thy eyes upon such one, and bring me into judgment with thee?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 14:4", "text": "Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 14:5", "text": "Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 14:6", "text": "Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 14:7", "text": "For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 14:8", "text": "Though its root shall become old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 14:9", "text": "[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 14:10", "text": "But man dieth, and wasteth away: yes, man yieldeth his breath, and where [is] he?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 14:11", "text": "[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 14:12", "text": "So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [shall be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 14:13", "text": "O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that thou wouldst keep me secret, until thy wrath is past, that thou wouldst appoint me a set time, and remember me!" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 14:14", "text": "If a man dieth, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change shall come." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 14:15", "text": "Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 14:16", "text": "For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 14:17", "text": "My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up my iniquity." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 14:18", "text": "And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, and the rock is removed out of its place." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 14:19", "text": "The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 14:20", "text": "Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 14:21", "text": "His sons come to honor, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 14:22", "text": "But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Job 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 15:1", "text": "Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 15:2", "text": "Should a wise men utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 15:3", "text": "Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 15:4", "text": "Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 15:5", "text": "For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 15:6", "text": "Thy own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yes, thy own lips testify against thee." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 15:7", "text": "[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 15:8", "text": "Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 15:9", "text": "What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 15:10", "text": "With us [are] both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than thy father." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 15:11", "text": "[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 15:12", "text": "Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at," }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 15:13", "text": "That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 15:14", "text": "What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he who is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 15:15", "text": "Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 15:16", "text": "How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, who drinketh iniquity like water?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 15:17", "text": "I will show thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen, I will declare;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 15:18", "text": "Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 15:19", "text": "To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 15:20", "text": "The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 15:21", "text": "A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 15:22", "text": "He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 15:23", "text": "He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 15:24", "text": "Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 15:25", "text": "For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 15:26", "text": "He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 15:27", "text": "Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 15:28", "text": "And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 15:29", "text": "He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 15:30", "text": "He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 15:31", "text": "Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 15:32", "text": "It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 15:33", "text": "He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 15:34", "text": "For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "name": "Job 15:35", "text": "They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Job 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 16:1", "text": "Then Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 16:2", "text": "I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 16:3", "text": "Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 16:4", "text": "I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 16:5", "text": "[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage [your grief]." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 16:6", "text": "Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 16:7", "text": "But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 16:8", "text": "And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 16:9", "text": "He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 16:10", "text": "They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 16:11", "text": "God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 16:12", "text": "I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 16:13", "text": "His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 16:14", "text": "He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 16:15", "text": "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 16:16", "text": "My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [are] the shades of death;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 16:17", "text": "Not for [any] injustice in my hands: also my prayer [is] pure." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 16:18", "text": "O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 16:19", "text": "Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 16:20", "text": "My friends scorn me: [but] my eye poureth out [tears] to God." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 16:21", "text": "O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbor!" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 16:22", "text": "When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Job 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 17:1", "text": "My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 17:2", "text": "[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 17:3", "text": "Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 17:4", "text": "For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 17:5", "text": "He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 17:6", "text": "He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 17:7", "text": "My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 17:8", "text": "Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 17:9", "text": "The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 17:10", "text": "But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 17:11", "text": "My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 17:12", "text": "They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 17:13", "text": "If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 17:14", "text": "I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 17:15", "text": "And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 17:16", "text": "They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Job 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 18:1", "text": "Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said," }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 18:2", "text": "How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 18:3", "text": "Why are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 18:4", "text": "He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 18:5", "text": "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 18:6", "text": "The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 18:7", "text": "The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 18:8", "text": "For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 18:9", "text": "The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 18:10", "text": "The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 18:11", "text": "Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 18:12", "text": "His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 18:13", "text": "It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the first-born of death shall devour his strength." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 18:14", "text": "His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 18:15", "text": "It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 18:16", "text": "His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 18:17", "text": "His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 18:18", "text": "He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 18:19", "text": "He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 18:20", "text": "They that come after [him] shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 18:21", "text": "Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Job 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 19:1", "text": "Then Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 19:2", "text": "How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 19:3", "text": "These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 19:4", "text": "And be it indeed [that] I have erred, my error remaineth with myself." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 19:5", "text": "If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 19:6", "text": "Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath encompassed me with his net." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 19:7", "text": "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 19:8", "text": "He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 19:9", "text": "He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 19:10", "text": "He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 19:11", "text": "He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as [one of] his enemies." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 19:12", "text": "His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 19:13", "text": "He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are verily estranged from me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 19:14", "text": "My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 19:15", "text": "They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 19:16", "text": "I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I entreated him with my mouth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 19:17", "text": "My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's [sake] of my own body." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 19:18", "text": "Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 19:19", "text": "All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 19:20", "text": "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 19:21", "text": "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 19:22", "text": "Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 19:23", "text": "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 19:24", "text": "That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 19:25", "text": "For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he will stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 19:26", "text": "And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 19:27", "text": "Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 19:28", "text": "But ye would say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 19:29", "text": "Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there] is a judgment." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Job 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 20:1", "text": "Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 20:2", "text": "Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 20:3", "text": "I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 20:4", "text": "Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth," }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 20:5", "text": "That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 20:6", "text": "Though his excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 20:7", "text": "[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 20:8", "text": "He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 20:9", "text": "The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 20:10", "text": "His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 20:11", "text": "His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 20:12", "text": "Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, [though] he may hide it under his tongue;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 20:13", "text": "[Though] he may spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 20:14", "text": "[Yet] his food in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 20:15", "text": "He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 20:16", "text": "He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 20:17", "text": "He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 20:18", "text": "That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it]: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [in it]." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 20:19", "text": "Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 20:20", "text": "Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 20:21", "text": "There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 20:22", "text": "In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 20:23", "text": "[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 20:24", "text": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 20:25", "text": "It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yes, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 20:26", "text": "All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 20:27", "text": "The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 20:28", "text": "The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 20:29", "text": "This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Job 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 21:1", "text": "But Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 21:2", "text": "Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 21:3", "text": "Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 21:4", "text": "As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 21:5", "text": "Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 21:6", "text": "Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 21:7", "text": "Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 21:8", "text": "Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 21:9", "text": "Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 21:10", "text": "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 21:11", "text": "They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 21:12", "text": "They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 21:13", "text": "They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 21:14", "text": "Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 21:15", "text": "What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 21:16", "text": "Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 21:17", "text": "How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them? [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 21:18", "text": "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 21:19", "text": "God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 21:20", "text": "His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 21:21", "text": "For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 21:22", "text": "Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 21:23", "text": "One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 21:24", "text": "His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 21:25", "text": "And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 21:26", "text": "They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 21:27", "text": "Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 21:28", "text": "For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 21:29", "text": "Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens," }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 21:30", "text": "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 21:31", "text": "Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 21:32", "text": "Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 21:33", "text": "The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 21:34", "text": "How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?" } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Job 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 22:1", "text": "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 22:2", "text": "Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 22:3", "text": "[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 22:4", "text": "Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 22:5", "text": "[Is] not thy wickedness great? and thy iniquities infinite?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 22:6", "text": "For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 22:7", "text": "Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 22:8", "text": "But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 22:9", "text": "Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 22:10", "text": "Therefore snares [are] around thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 22:11", "text": "Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 22:12", "text": "[Is] not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 22:13", "text": "And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 22:14", "text": "Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 22:15", "text": "Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 22:16", "text": "Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 22:17", "text": "Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 22:18", "text": "Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 22:19", "text": "The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent deride them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 22:20", "text": "Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 22:21", "text": "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 22:22", "text": "Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 22:23", "text": "If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 22:24", "text": "Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 22:25", "text": "Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of silver." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 22:26", "text": "For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 22:27", "text": "Thou shalt make thy prayer to him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 22:28", "text": "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 22:29", "text": "When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] exaltation; and he shall save the humble person." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 22:30", "text": "He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Job 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 23:1", "text": "Then Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 23:2", "text": "Even to-day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 23:3", "text": "Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 23:4", "text": "I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 23:5", "text": "I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 23:6", "text": "Would he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 23:7", "text": "There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 23:8", "text": "Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 23:9", "text": "On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 23:10", "text": "But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 23:11", "text": "My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 23:12", "text": "Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food]." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 23:13", "text": "But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 23:14", "text": "For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 23:15", "text": "Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 23:16", "text": "For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 23:17", "text": "Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Job 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 24:1", "text": "Why, seeing times [are] not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 24:2", "text": "[Some] remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and [their] feed." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 24:3", "text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 24:4", "text": "They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 24:5", "text": "Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 24:6", "text": "They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 24:7", "text": "They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 24:8", "text": "They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 24:9", "text": "They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 24:10", "text": "They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 24:11", "text": "[Who] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] wine-presses, and suffer thirst." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 24:12", "text": "Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them]." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 24:13", "text": "They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 24:14", "text": "The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 24:15", "text": "The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 24:16", "text": "In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 24:17", "text": "For the morning [is] to them even as the shades of death: if [one] knoweth [them], [they are in] the terrors of the shades of death." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 24:18", "text": "He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 24:19", "text": "Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: [so doth] the grave [those who] have sinned." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 24:20", "text": "The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 24:21", "text": "He oppresseth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 24:22", "text": "He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 24:23", "text": "[Though] it is given him [to be] in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 24:24", "text": "They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [others], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 24:25", "text": "And if [it is] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?" } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Job 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 25:1", "text": "Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 25:2", "text": "Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his high places." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 25:3", "text": "Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 25:4", "text": "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 25:5", "text": "Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; and the stars are not pure in his sight." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 25:6", "text": "How much less man, [that is] a worm; and the son of man, [who is] a worm?" } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Job 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 26:1", "text": "But Job answered and said," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 26:2", "text": "How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 26:3", "text": "How hast thou counseled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou abundantly declared the thing as it is?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 26:4", "text": "To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 26:5", "text": "Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 26:6", "text": "Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 26:7", "text": "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 26:8", "text": "He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 26:9", "text": "He holdeth back the face of [his] throne, [and] spreadeth his cloud upon it." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 26:10", "text": "He hath encompassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 26:11", "text": "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 26:12", "text": "He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 26:13", "text": "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 26:14", "text": "Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?" } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Job 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 27:1", "text": "Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said," }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 27:2", "text": "[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty [who] hath afflicted my soul;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 27:3", "text": "All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 27:4", "text": "My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 27:5", "text": "Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 27:6", "text": "My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 27:7", "text": "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 27:8", "text": "For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 27:9", "text": "Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 27:10", "text": "Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 27:11", "text": "I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 27:12", "text": "Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 27:13", "text": "This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 27:14", "text": "If his children are multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 27:15", "text": "Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 27:16", "text": "Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 27:17", "text": "He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 27:18", "text": "He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 27:19", "text": "The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 27:20", "text": "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 27:21", "text": "The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 27:22", "text": "For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 27:23", "text": "[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Job 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 28:1", "text": "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 28:2", "text": "Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] melted [out of] the stone." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 28:3", "text": "He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 28:4", "text": "The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: [even the waters] forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 28:5", "text": "[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 28:6", "text": "The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 28:7", "text": "[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 28:8", "text": "The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 28:9", "text": "He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 28:10", "text": "He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 28:11", "text": "He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid he bringeth forth to light." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 28:12", "text": "But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 28:13", "text": "Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 28:14", "text": "The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 28:15", "text": "It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price of it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 28:16", "text": "It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 28:17", "text": "The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 28:18", "text": "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 28:19", "text": "The topaz of Cush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 28:20", "text": "Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 28:21", "text": "Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 28:22", "text": "Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 28:23", "text": "God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 28:24", "text": "For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 28:25", "text": "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 28:26", "text": "When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 28:27", "text": "Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 28:28", "text": "And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Job 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 29:1", "text": "Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said," }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 29:2", "text": "Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 29:3", "text": "When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 29:4", "text": "As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 29:5", "text": "When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 29:6", "text": "When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 29:7", "text": "When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 29:8", "text": "The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 29:9", "text": "The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 29:10", "text": "The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 29:11", "text": "When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 29:12", "text": "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 29:13", "text": "The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 29:14", "text": "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 29:15", "text": "I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 29:16", "text": "I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 29:17", "text": "And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 29:18", "text": "Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 29:19", "text": "My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 29:20", "text": "My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 29:21", "text": "To me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 29:22", "text": "After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 29:23", "text": "And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 29:24", "text": "[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 29:25", "text": "I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Job 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 30:1", "text": "But now [they that are] younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 30:2", "text": "Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 30:3", "text": "For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 30:4", "text": "Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their food." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 30:5", "text": "They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief;)" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 30:6", "text": "To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 30:7", "text": "Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 30:8", "text": "[They were] children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 30:9", "text": "And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 30:10", "text": "They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 30:11", "text": "Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 30:12", "text": "Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 30:13", "text": "They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 30:14", "text": "They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 30:15", "text": "Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 30:16", "text": "And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 30:17", "text": "My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 30:18", "text": "By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 30:19", "text": "He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 30:20", "text": "I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 30:21", "text": "Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 30:22", "text": "Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 30:23", "text": "For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 30:24", "text": "Yet he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 30:25", "text": "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 30:26", "text": "When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 30:27", "text": "My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 30:28", "text": "I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 30:29", "text": "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 30:30", "text": "My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 30:31", "text": "My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Job 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 31:1", "text": "I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 31:2", "text": "For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 31:3", "text": "[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 31:4", "text": "Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 31:5", "text": "If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 31:6", "text": "Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 31:7", "text": "If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 31:8", "text": "[Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 31:9", "text": "If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 31:10", "text": "[Then] let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 31:11", "text": "For this [is] a hainous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 31:12", "text": "For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 31:13", "text": "If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 31:14", "text": "What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 31:15", "text": "Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 31:16", "text": "If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 31:17", "text": "Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 31:18", "text": "(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 31:19", "text": "If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 31:20", "text": "If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 31:21", "text": "If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 31:22", "text": "[Then] let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 31:23", "text": "For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 31:24", "text": "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 31:25", "text": "If I have rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because my hand had gained much;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 31:26", "text": "If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 31:27", "text": "And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 31:28", "text": "This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 31:29", "text": "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 31:30", "text": "Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 31:31", "text": "If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 31:32", "text": "The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveler." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 31:33", "text": "If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 31:34", "text": "Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of the door?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "name": "Job 31:35", "text": "Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is], [that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] my adversary had written a book." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "name": "Job 31:36", "text": "Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "name": "Job 31:37", "text": "I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "name": "Job 31:38", "text": "If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "name": "Job 31:39", "text": "If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "name": "Job 31:40", "text": "Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Job 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 32:1", "text": "So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he [was] righteous in his own eyes." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 32:2", "text": "Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 32:3", "text": "Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Job." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 32:4", "text": "Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they [were] older than he." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 32:5", "text": "When Elihu saw that [there was] no answer in the mouth of [these] three men, then his wrath was kindled." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 32:6", "text": "And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I [am] young, and ye [are] very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show you my opinion." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 32:7", "text": "I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 32:8", "text": "But [there is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 32:9", "text": "Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged understand judgment." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 32:10", "text": "Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show my opinion." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 32:11", "text": "Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 32:12", "text": "Yes, I attended to you, and behold, [there was] none of you that convinced Job, [or] that answered his words:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 32:13", "text": "Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 32:14", "text": "Now he hath not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 32:15", "text": "They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 32:16", "text": "When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, [and] answered no more;)" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 32:17", "text": "[I said], I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 32:18", "text": "For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 32:19", "text": "Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 32:20", "text": "I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 32:21", "text": "Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles to man." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 32:22", "text": "For I know not to give flattering titles; [in so doing], my Maker would soon take me away." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Job 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 33:1", "text": "Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 33:2", "text": "Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 33:3", "text": "My words [shall be of] the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 33:4", "text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 33:5", "text": "If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 33:6", "text": "Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 33:7", "text": "Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 33:8", "text": "Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 33:9", "text": "I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 33:10", "text": "Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 33:11", "text": "He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 33:12", "text": "Behold, [in] this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 33:13", "text": "Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 33:14", "text": "For God speaketh once, yes twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 33:15", "text": "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 33:16", "text": "Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 33:17", "text": "That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide pride from man." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 33:18", "text": "He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 33:19", "text": "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 33:20", "text": "So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 33:21", "text": "His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 33:22", "text": "Yes, his soul draweth near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 33:23", "text": "If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 33:24", "text": "Then he is gracious to him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 33:25", "text": "His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he will return to the days of his youth:" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 33:26", "text": "He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 33:27", "text": "He looketh upon men, and [if any] shall say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 33:28", "text": "He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 33:29", "text": "Lo, all these [things] God often worketh with man," }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 33:30", "text": "To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 33:31", "text": "Mark well, O Job, hearken to me: hold thy peace, and I will speak." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 33:32", "text": "If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 33:33", "text": "If not, hearken to me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Job 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 34:1", "text": "Furthermore Elihu answered and said," }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 34:2", "text": "Hear my words, O ye wise [men]; and give ear to me, ye that have knowledge." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 34:3", "text": "For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth food." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 34:4", "text": "Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 34:5", "text": "For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 34:6", "text": "Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 34:7", "text": "What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 34:8", "text": "Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 34:9", "text": "For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 34:10", "text": "Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, [that he should do] wickedness; and [from] the Almighty, [that he should commit] iniquity." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 34:11", "text": "For the work of a man he shall render to him, and cause every man to find according to [his] ways." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 34:12", "text": "Yes, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 34:13", "text": "Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 34:14", "text": "If he should set his heart upon man, [if] he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath;" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 34:15", "text": "All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 34:16", "text": "If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 34:17", "text": "Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 34:18", "text": "[Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou art] wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly?" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 34:19", "text": "[How much less to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all [are] the work of his hands." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 34:20", "text": "In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 34:21", "text": "For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 34:22", "text": "[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 34:23", "text": "For he will not lay upon man more [than right]; that he should enter into judgment with God." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 34:24", "text": "He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 34:25", "text": "Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 34:26", "text": "He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 34:27", "text": "Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 34:28", "text": "So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 34:29", "text": "When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 34:30", "text": "That the hypocrite may not reign, lest the people should be ensnared." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 34:31", "text": "Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 34:32", "text": "[That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 34:33", "text": "[Should it be] according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou shalt refuse, or whether thou shalt choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 34:34", "text": "Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken to me." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 35, "name": "Job 34:35", "text": "Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 36, "name": "Job 34:36", "text": "My desire [is that] Job may be tried to the end, because of [his] answers for wicked men." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 37, "name": "Job 34:37", "text": "For he addeth rebellion to his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God." } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "Job 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 35:1", "text": "Elihu spoke moreover, and said," }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 35:2", "text": "Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God's?" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 35:3", "text": "For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 35:4", "text": "I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 35:5", "text": "Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 35:6", "text": "If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 35:7", "text": "If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 35:8", "text": "Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]: and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 35:9", "text": "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 35:10", "text": "But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 35:11", "text": "Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 35:12", "text": "There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 35:13", "text": "Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 35:14", "text": "Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 35:15", "text": "But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 35:16", "text": "Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "Job 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 36:1", "text": "Elihu also proceeded, and said," }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 36:2", "text": "Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that [I have] yet to speak on God's behalf." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 36:3", "text": "I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 36:4", "text": "For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is perfect in knowledge [is] with thee." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 36:5", "text": "Behold, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not [any]: [he is] mighty in strength [and] wisdom." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 36:6", "text": "He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 36:7", "text": "He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings [are they] on the throne; yes, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 36:8", "text": "And if [they are] bound in fetters, [and] are held in cords of affliction;" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 36:9", "text": "Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 36:10", "text": "He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 36:11", "text": "If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 36:12", "text": "But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 36:13", "text": "But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 36:14", "text": "They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 36:15", "text": "He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 36:16", "text": "Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [would be] full of fatness." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 36:17", "text": "But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 36:18", "text": "Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 36:19", "text": "Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 36:20", "text": "Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 36:21", "text": "Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 36:22", "text": "Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 36:23", "text": "Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 36:24", "text": "Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 36:25", "text": "Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 36:26", "text": "Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 36:27", "text": "For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor of it." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 36:28", "text": "Which the clouds do drop [and] distill upon man abundantly." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 36:29", "text": "Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 36:30", "text": "Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 36:31", "text": "For by them he judgeth the people; he giveth food in abundance." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 36:32", "text": "With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the] intervening [cloud]." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 36:33", "text": "The noise of it showeth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor." } ] }, { "chapter": 37, "name": "Job 37", "verses": [ { "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 37:1", "text": "At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 37:2", "text": "Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 37:3", "text": "He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 37:4", "text": "After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellence; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 37:5", "text": "God thundereth marvelously with his voice; great things he doeth, which we cannot comprehend." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 37:6", "text": "For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 37:7", "text": "He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 37:8", "text": "Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 37:9", "text": "From the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold from the north." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 37:10", "text": "By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 37:11", "text": "Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 37:12", "text": "And it is turned around by his counsels: that they may do whatever he commandeth them upon the face of the world on the earth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 37:13", "text": "He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 37:14", "text": "Hearken to this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 37:15", "text": "Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 37:16", "text": "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 37:17", "text": "How thy garments [are] warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south [wind]?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 37:18", "text": "Hast thou with him spread out the sky [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking-glass?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 37:19", "text": "Teach us what we shall say to him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 37:20", "text": "Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man shall speak, surely he will be swallowed up." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 37:21", "text": "And now [men] see not the bright light which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 37:22", "text": "Fair weather cometh from the north: with God [is] terrible majesty." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 37:23", "text": "[Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice: he will not afflict." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 37:24", "text": "Men therefore fear him: he respecteth not any [that are] wise of heart." } ] }, { "chapter": 38, "name": "Job 38", "verses": [ { "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 38:1", "text": "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 38:2", "text": "Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 38:3", "text": "Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 38:4", "text": "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 38:5", "text": "Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 38:6", "text": "Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 38:7", "text": "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 38:8", "text": "Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 38:9", "text": "When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 38:10", "text": "And broke up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 38:11", "text": "And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 38:12", "text": "Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the day-spring to know its place;" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 38:13", "text": "That it might take hold of the ends of earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 38:14", "text": "It is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as a garment." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 38:15", "text": "And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 38:16", "text": "Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 38:17", "text": "Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 38:18", "text": "Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 38:19", "text": "Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] its place," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 38:20", "text": "That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] its house?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 38:21", "text": "Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or [because] the number of thy days [is] great?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 38:22", "text": "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 38:23", "text": "Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 38:24", "text": "By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the earth?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 38:25", "text": "Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 38:26", "text": "To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is]; [on] the wilderness in which [there is] no man;" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 38:27", "text": "To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 38:28", "text": "Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 38:29", "text": "Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 38:30", "text": "The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 38:31", "text": "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 38:32", "text": "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with its sons?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 38:33", "text": "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set its dominion on the earth?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 38:34", "text": "Canst thou lift thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 35, "name": "Job 38:35", "text": "Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we [are]?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 36, "name": "Job 38:36", "text": "Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 37, "name": "Job 38:37", "text": "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 38, "name": "Job 38:38", "text": "When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 39, "name": "Job 38:39", "text": "Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 40, "name": "Job 38:40", "text": "When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 41, "name": "Job 38:41", "text": "Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for want of food." } ] }, { "chapter": 39, "name": "Job 39", "verses": [ { "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 39:1", "text": "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 39:2", "text": "Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 39:3", "text": "They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 39:4", "text": "Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 39:5", "text": "Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 39:6", "text": "Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 39:7", "text": "He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 39:8", "text": "The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 39:9", "text": "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 39:10", "text": "Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 39:11", "text": "Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labor to him?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 39:12", "text": "Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 39:13", "text": "[Gavest thou] the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich!" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 39:14", "text": "Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust," }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 39:15", "text": "And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 39:16", "text": "She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labor is in vain without fear;" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 39:17", "text": "Because God hath withheld wisdom from her, neither hath he imparted to her understanding." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 39:18", "text": "When she lifteth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 39:19", "text": "Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 39:20", "text": "Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 39:21", "text": "He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 39:22", "text": "He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 39:23", "text": "The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 39:24", "text": "He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 39:25", "text": "He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 39:26", "text": "Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings towards the south?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 39:27", "text": "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?" }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 39:28", "text": "She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 39:29", "text": "From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 39:30", "text": "Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she." } ] }, { "chapter": 40, "name": "Job 40", "verses": [ { "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 40:1", "text": "Moreover, the LORD answered Job, and said," }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 40:2", "text": "Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 40:3", "text": "Then Job answered the LORD, and said," }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 40:4", "text": "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 40:5", "text": "Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yes, twice; but I will proceed no further." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 40:6", "text": "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said," }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 40:7", "text": "Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 40:8", "text": "Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 40:9", "text": "Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like his?" }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 40:10", "text": "Deck thyself now [with] majesty and excellence; and array thyself with glory and beauty." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 40:11", "text": "Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one [that is] proud, and abase him." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 40:12", "text": "Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 40:13", "text": "Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 40:14", "text": "Then will I also confess to thee that thy own right hand can save thee." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 40:15", "text": "Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 40:16", "text": "Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 40:17", "text": "He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his male organs are wrapped together." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 40:18", "text": "His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 40:19", "text": "He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [him]." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 40:20", "text": "Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 40:21", "text": "He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 40:22", "text": "The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook encompass him." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 40:23", "text": "Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 40:24", "text": "He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares." } ] }, { "chapter": 41, "name": "Job 41", "verses": [ { "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 41:1", "text": "Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 41:2", "text": "Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 41:3", "text": "Will he make many supplications to thee? will he speak soft [words] to thee?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 41:4", "text": "Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 41:5", "text": "Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 41:6", "text": "Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 41:7", "text": "Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 41:8", "text": "Lay thy hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 41:9", "text": "Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 41:10", "text": "None [is so] fierce that he dare rouse him: who then is able to stand before me?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 41:11", "text": "Who hath first benefited me, that I should repay [him]? [whatever is] under the whole heaven is mine." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 41:12", "text": "I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 41:13", "text": "Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 41:14", "text": "Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible around." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 41:15", "text": "[His] scales [are his] pride, shut together [as with] a close seal." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 41:16", "text": "One is so near to another, that no air can come between them." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 41:17", "text": "They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "name": "Job 41:18", "text": "His sneezings flash light, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 19, "name": "Job 41:19", "text": "Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire dart forth." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 20, "name": "Job 41:20", "text": "Out of his nostrils issueth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 21, "name": "Job 41:21", "text": "His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 22, "name": "Job 41:22", "text": "In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 23, "name": "Job 41:23", "text": "The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 24, "name": "Job 41:24", "text": "His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone]." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 25, "name": "Job 41:25", "text": "When he raiseth himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 26, "name": "Job 41:26", "text": "The sword of him that attacketh him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 27, "name": "Job 41:27", "text": "He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 28, "name": "Job 41:28", "text": "The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 29, "name": "Job 41:29", "text": "Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 30, "name": "Job 41:30", "text": "Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 31, "name": "Job 41:31", "text": "He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 32, "name": "Job 41:32", "text": "He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 33, "name": "Job 41:33", "text": "Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 34, "name": "Job 41:34", "text": "He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride." } ] }, { "chapter": 42, "name": "Job 42", "verses": [ { "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "name": "Job 42:1", "text": "Then Job answered the LORD, and said," }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "name": "Job 42:2", "text": "I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withheld from thee." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "name": "Job 42:3", "text": "Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "name": "Job 42:4", "text": "Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "name": "Job 42:5", "text": "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth thee." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "name": "Job 42:6", "text": "Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "name": "Job 42:7", "text": "And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath]." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "name": "Job 42:8", "text": "Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "name": "Job 42:9", "text": "So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "name": "Job 42:10", "text": "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "name": "Job 42:11", "text": "Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "name": "Job 42:12", "text": "So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "name": "Job 42:13", "text": "He had also seven sons, and three daughters." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "name": "Job 42:14", "text": "And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "name": "Job 42:15", "text": "And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "name": "Job 42:16", "text": "After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "name": "Job 42:17", "text": "So Job died, [being] old and full of days." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 19, "name": "Psalms", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Psalms 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 1:1", "text": "Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 1:2", "text": "But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 1:3", "text": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in season; its leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he doeth shall prosper." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 1:4", "text": "The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 1:5", "text": "Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 1:6", "text": "For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Psalms 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 2:1", "text": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 2:2", "text": "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 2:3", "text": "Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 2:4", "text": "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 2:5", "text": "Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and trouble them in his sore displeasure." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 2:6", "text": "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 2:7", "text": "I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said to me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 2:8", "text": "Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the heathen [for] thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 2:9", "text": "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 2:10", "text": "Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 2:11", "text": "Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 2:12", "text": "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Psalms 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 3:1", "text": "A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they multiplied that trouble me? many [are] they that rise up against me." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 3:2", "text": "Many [there are] who say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 3:3", "text": "But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 3:4", "text": "I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me from his holy hill. Selah." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 3:5", "text": "I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 3:6", "text": "I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me on all sides." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 3:7", "text": "Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all my enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 3:8", "text": "Salvation [belongeth] to the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Psalms 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 4:1", "text": "To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me [when I was] in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 4:2", "text": "O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after falsehood? Selah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 4:3", "text": "But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 4:4", "text": "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 4:5", "text": "Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 4:6", "text": "[There are] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD, lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 4:7", "text": "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [when] their corn and their wine increased." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 4:8", "text": "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou only, LORD, makest me dwell in safety." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Psalms 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 5:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 5:2", "text": "Hearken to the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for to thee will I pray." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 5:3", "text": "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct [my prayer] to thee, and will look up." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 5:4", "text": "For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 5:5", "text": "The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 5:6", "text": "Thou shalt destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 5:7", "text": "But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy temple." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 5:8", "text": "Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness, because of my enemies; make thy way straight before my face." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 5:9", "text": "For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 5:10", "text": "Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 5:11", "text": "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 5:12", "text": "For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Psalms 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 6:1", "text": "To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 6:2", "text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are agitated." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 6:3", "text": "My soul is also greatly disquieted: but thou, O LORD, how long?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 6:4", "text": "Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: Oh save me for thy mercies sake." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 6:5", "text": "For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who will give thee thanks?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 6:6", "text": "I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 6:7", "text": "My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 6:8", "text": "Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 6:9", "text": "The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 6:10", "text": "Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly disquieted: let them return [and] be suddenly ashamed." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Psalms 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 7:1", "text": "Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 7:2", "text": "Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 7:3", "text": "O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 7:4", "text": "If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 7:5", "text": "Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 7:6", "text": "Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that] thou hast commanded." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 7:7", "text": "So shall the congregation of the people encompass thee: for their sakes therefore return thou on high." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 7:8", "text": "The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity [that is] in me." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 7:9", "text": "Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 7:10", "text": "My defense [is] from God, who saveth the upright in heart." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 7:11", "text": "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked] every day." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 7:12", "text": "If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 7:13", "text": "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 7:14", "text": "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 7:15", "text": "He made a pit, and digged it, and hath fallen into the ditch [which] he made." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 7:16", "text": "His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 7:17", "text": "I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Psalms 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 8:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 8:2", "text": "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 8:3", "text": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 8:4", "text": "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 8:5", "text": "For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 8:6", "text": "Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 8:7", "text": "All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 8:8", "text": "The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 8:9", "text": "O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!" } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Psalms 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 9:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy wonderful works." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 9:2", "text": "I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 9:3", "text": "When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 9:4", "text": "For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou sattest on the throne judging right." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 9:5", "text": "Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 9:6", "text": "O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 9:7", "text": "But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 9:8", "text": "And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 9:9", "text": "The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 9:10", "text": "And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 9:11", "text": "Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 9:12", "text": "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 9:13", "text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer] from them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 9:14", "text": "That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 9:15", "text": "The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 9:16", "text": "The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 9:17", "text": "The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 9:18", "text": "For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 9:19", "text": "Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 9:20", "text": "Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Psalms 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 10:1", "text": "Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 10:2", "text": "The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 10:3", "text": "For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 10:4", "text": "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 10:5", "text": "His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 10:6", "text": "He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 10:7", "text": "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 10:8", "text": "He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 10:9", "text": "He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 10:10", "text": "He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 10:11", "text": "He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it]." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 10:12", "text": "Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the humble." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 10:13", "text": "Why doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 10:14", "text": "Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself to thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 10:15", "text": "Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou shalt find none." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 10:16", "text": "The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen have perished out of his land." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 10:17", "text": "LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thy ear to hear:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 10:18", "text": "To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Psalms 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 11:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 11:2", "text": "For lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 11:3", "text": "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 11:4", "text": "The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 11:5", "text": "The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 11:6", "text": "Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 11:7", "text": "For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance beholdeth the upright." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Psalms 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 12:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 12:2", "text": "They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 12:3", "text": "The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 12:4", "text": "Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 12:5", "text": "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 12:6", "text": "The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 12:7", "text": "Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 12:8", "text": "The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Psalms 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 13:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 13:2", "text": "How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 13:3", "text": "Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep [the sleep] of death;" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 13:4", "text": "Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 13:5", "text": "But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 13:6", "text": "I will sing to the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Psalms 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 14:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 14:2", "text": "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 14:3", "text": "They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 14:4", "text": "Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 14:5", "text": "There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 14:6", "text": "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 14:7", "text": "Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Psalms 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 15:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 15:2", "text": "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 15:3", "text": "[He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 15:4", "text": "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 15:5", "text": "[He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Psalms 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 16:1", "text": "Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 16:2", "text": "[O my soul], thou hast said to the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 16:3", "text": "[But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 16:4", "text": "Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take their names into my lips." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 16:5", "text": "The LORD [is] the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 16:6", "text": "The lines have fallen to me in pleasant [places]; yes, I have a goodly heritage." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 16:7", "text": "I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night season." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 16:8", "text": "I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right hand, I shall not be moved." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 16:9", "text": "Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 16:10", "text": "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 16:11", "text": "Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fullness of joy; at thy right hand [are] pleasures for evermore." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Psalms 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 17:1", "text": "A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 17:2", "text": "Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thy eyes behold the things that are equal." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 17:3", "text": "Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I have purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 17:4", "text": "Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 17:5", "text": "Uphold my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 17:6", "text": "I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thy ear to me, [and hear] my speech." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 17:7", "text": "Show thy wonderful loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them who put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them]." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 17:8", "text": "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shade of thy wings." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 17:9", "text": "From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] encompass me," }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 17:10", "text": "They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 17:11", "text": "They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 17:12", "text": "Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 17:13", "text": "Arise, O LORD disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [who is] thy sword:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 17:14", "text": "From men [who are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [who have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 17:15", "text": "As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Psalms 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 18:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 18:2", "text": "The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 18:3", "text": "I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 18:4", "text": "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 18:5", "text": "The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 18:6", "text": "In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 18:7", "text": "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 18:8", "text": "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 18:9", "text": "He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 18:10", "text": "And he rode upon a cherub, and flew; yes, he flew upon the wings of the wind." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 18:11", "text": "He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 18:12", "text": "At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 18:13", "text": "The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 18:14", "text": "Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 18:15", "text": "Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 18:16", "text": "He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 18:17", "text": "He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 18:18", "text": "They attacked me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 18:19", "text": "He brought me forth also in a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 18:20", "text": "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 18:21", "text": "For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 18:22", "text": "For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 18:23", "text": "I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 18:24", "text": "Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 18:25", "text": "With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 18:26", "text": "With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 18:27", "text": "For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 18:28", "text": "For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 18:29", "text": "For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 18:30", "text": "[As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 18:31", "text": "For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 18:32", "text": "[It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 18:33", "text": "He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 18:34", "text": "He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 18:35", "text": "Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up and thy gentleness hath made me great." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 18:36", "text": "Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 18:37", "text": "I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 18:38", "text": "I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 18:39", "text": "For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 18:40", "text": "Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 18:41", "text": "They cried, but [there was] none to save [them]: [even] to the LORD, but he answered them not." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 18:42", "text": "Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 18:43", "text": "Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have not known shall serve me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 44, "name": "Psalms 18:44", "text": "As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 45, "name": "Psalms 18:45", "text": "The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid from their close places." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 46, "name": "Psalms 18:46", "text": "The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 47, "name": "Psalms 18:47", "text": "[It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 48, "name": "Psalms 18:48", "text": "He delivereth me from my enemies: yes, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 49, "name": "Psalms 18:49", "text": "Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to thy name." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 50, "name": "Psalms 18:50", "text": "He giveth great deliverance to his king; and showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Psalms 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 19:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth the work of his hands." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 19:2", "text": "Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night showeth knowledge." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 19:3", "text": "[There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 19:4", "text": "Their line hath gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun," }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 19:5", "text": "Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 19:6", "text": "His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from his heat." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 19:7", "text": "The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 19:8", "text": "The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 19:9", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 19:10", "text": "More to be desired [are they] than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 19:11", "text": "Moreover, by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 19:12", "text": "Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults]." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 19:13", "text": "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 19:14", "text": "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Psalms 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 20:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 20:2", "text": "Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 20:3", "text": "Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt-sacrifice. Selah." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 20:4", "text": "Grant thee according to thy own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 20:5", "text": "We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our] banners: the LORD fulfill all thy petitions." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 20:6", "text": "Now I know that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 20:7", "text": "Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 20:8", "text": "They are brought down and fallen: but we are raised, and stand upright." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 20:9", "text": "Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Psalms 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 21:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 21:2", "text": "Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 21:3", "text": "For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness: thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 21:4", "text": "He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] to him, [even] length of days for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 21:5", "text": "His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honor and majesty hast thou laid upon him." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 21:6", "text": "For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 21:7", "text": "For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 21:8", "text": "Thy hand shall find out all thy enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 21:9", "text": "Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thy anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 21:10", "text": "Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 21:11", "text": "For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 21:12", "text": "Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thy arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 21:13", "text": "Be thou exalted, LORD, in thy own strength: [so] will we sing and praise thy power." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Psalms 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 22:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so far] from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 22:2", "text": "O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 22:3", "text": "But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 22:4", "text": "Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 22:5", "text": "They cried to thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 22:6", "text": "But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 22:7", "text": "All they that see me deride me: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 22:8", "text": "He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 22:9", "text": "But thou [art] he that brought me forth into life: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 22:10", "text": "I was cast upon thee from my birth: thou [art] my God from the time I was born." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 22:11", "text": "Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 22:12", "text": "Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 22:13", "text": "They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 22:14", "text": "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 22:15", "text": "My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 22:16", "text": "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 22:17", "text": "I may number all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 22:18", "text": "They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 22:19", "text": "But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 22:20", "text": "Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 22:21", "text": "Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 22:22", "text": "I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 22:23", "text": "Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 22:24", "text": "For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 22:25", "text": "My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 22:26", "text": "The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 22:27", "text": "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 22:28", "text": "For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among the nations." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 22:29", "text": "All [they that are] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 22:30", "text": "A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 22:31", "text": "They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this]." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Psalms 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 23:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 23:2", "text": "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 23:3", "text": "He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 23:4", "text": "Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 23:5", "text": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 23:6", "text": "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Psalms 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 24:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 24:2", "text": "For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 24:3", "text": "Who shall ascend upon the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 24:4", "text": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 24:5", "text": "He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 24:6", "text": "This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 24:7", "text": "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 24:8", "text": "Who [is] this King of glory? the LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 24:9", "text": "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 24:10", "text": "Who is this King of glory? the LORD of hosts, he [is] the King of glory. Selah." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Psalms 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 25:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. To thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 25:2", "text": "O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me," }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 25:3", "text": "Also, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 25:4", "text": "Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 25:5", "text": "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 25:6", "text": "Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 25:7", "text": "Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 25:8", "text": "Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 25:9", "text": "The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 25:10", "text": "All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 25:11", "text": "For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it [is] great." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 25:12", "text": "What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 25:13", "text": "His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 25:14", "text": "The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 25:15", "text": "My eyes [are] ever towards the LORD; for he will pluck my feet out of the net." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 25:16", "text": "Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 25:17", "text": "The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 25:18", "text": "Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 25:19", "text": "Consider my enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 25:20", "text": "O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 25:21", "text": "Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 25:22", "text": "Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Psalms 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 26:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 26:2", "text": "Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 26:3", "text": "For thy loving-kindness [is] before my eyes: and I have walked in thy truth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 26:4", "text": "I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 26:5", "text": "I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 26:6", "text": "I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass thy altar, O LORD:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 26:7", "text": "That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 26:8", "text": "LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy honor dwelleth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 26:9", "text": "Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 26:10", "text": "In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 26:11", "text": "But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 26:12", "text": "My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Psalms 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 27:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 27:2", "text": "When the wicked, [even] my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 27:3", "text": "Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 27:4", "text": "One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 27:5", "text": "For in the time of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle will he hide me; he will set me up upon a rock." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 27:6", "text": "And now shall my head be lifted above my enemies around me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 27:7", "text": "Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 27:8", "text": "[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said to thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 27:9", "text": "Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 27:10", "text": "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 27:11", "text": "Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 27:12", "text": "Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 27:13", "text": "[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 27:14", "text": "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he will strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Psalms 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 28:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 28:2", "text": "Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 28:3", "text": "Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief [is] in their hearts." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 28:4", "text": "Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 28:5", "text": "Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will destroy them, and not build them up." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 28:6", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 28:7", "text": "The LORD [is] my strength, and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 28:8", "text": "The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 28:9", "text": "Save thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Psalms 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 29:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. Give to the LORD, O ye mighty, give to the LORD glory and strength." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 29:2", "text": "Give to the LORD, the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 29:3", "text": "The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 29:4", "text": "The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 29:5", "text": "The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yes, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 29:6", "text": "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 29:7", "text": "The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 29:8", "text": "The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 29:9", "text": "The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and maketh bare the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his] glory." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 29:10", "text": "The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yes, the LORD sitteth king for ever." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 29:11", "text": "The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Psalms 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 30:1", "text": "A Psalm [and] Song, [at] the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 30:2", "text": "O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and thou hast healed me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 30:3", "text": "O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 30:4", "text": "Sing to the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 30:5", "text": "For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favor [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 30:6", "text": "And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 30:7", "text": "LORD, by thy favor thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 30:8", "text": "I cried to thee, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 30:9", "text": "What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 30:10", "text": "Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 30:11", "text": "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 30:12", "text": "To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Psalms 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 31:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 31:2", "text": "Bow down thy ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 31:3", "text": "For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 31:4", "text": "Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 31:5", "text": "Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 31:6", "text": "I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 31:7", "text": "I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 31:8", "text": "And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 31:9", "text": "Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, [yes], my soul and my belly." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 31:10", "text": "For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 31:11", "text": "I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 31:12", "text": "I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 31:13", "text": "For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 31:14", "text": "But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 31:15", "text": "My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 31:16", "text": "Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 31:17", "text": "Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 31:18", "text": "Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 31:19", "text": "[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 31:20", "text": "Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 31:21", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath showed me his wonderful kindness in a strong city." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 31:22", "text": "For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 31:23", "text": "O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 31:24", "text": "Be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Psalms 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 32:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David, Maschil. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 32:2", "text": "Blessed [is] the man to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 32:3", "text": "When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 32:4", "text": "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. Selah." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 32:5", "text": "I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 32:6", "text": "For this shall every one that is godly pray to thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh to him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 32:7", "text": "Thou [art] my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 32:8", "text": "I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 32:9", "text": "Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 32:10", "text": "Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall encompass him." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 32:11", "text": "Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Psalms 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 33:1", "text": "Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely for the upright." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 33:2", "text": "Praise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 33:3", "text": "Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 33:4", "text": "For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are done] in truth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 33:5", "text": "He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 33:6", "text": "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 33:7", "text": "He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the depth in store-houses." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 33:8", "text": "Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 33:9", "text": "For he spoke, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 33:10", "text": "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of no effect." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 33:11", "text": "The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 33:12", "text": "Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 33:13", "text": "The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 33:14", "text": "From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 33:15", "text": "He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 33:16", "text": "There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 33:17", "text": "A horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his great strength." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 33:18", "text": "Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 33:19", "text": "To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 33:20", "text": "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 33:21", "text": "For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 33:22", "text": "Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Psalms 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 34:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 34:2", "text": "My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [of it] and be glad." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 34:3", "text": "O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 34:4", "text": "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 34:5", "text": "They looked to him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 34:6", "text": "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 34:7", "text": "The angel of the LORD encampeth around them that fear him, and delivereth them." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 34:8", "text": "O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 34:9", "text": "O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 34:10", "text": "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing]." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 34:11", "text": "Come, ye children, hearken to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 34:12", "text": "What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?" }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 34:13", "text": "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 34:14", "text": "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 34:15", "text": "The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears [are open] to their cry." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 34:16", "text": "The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 34:17", "text": "[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 34:18", "text": "The LORD [is] nigh to them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 34:19", "text": "Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 34:20", "text": "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 34:21", "text": "Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 34:22", "text": "The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate." } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "Psalms 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 35:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 35:2", "text": "Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 35:3", "text": "Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I [am] thy salvation." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 35:4", "text": "Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 35:5", "text": "Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 35:6", "text": "Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 35:7", "text": "For without cause they have hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 35:8", "text": "Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 35:9", "text": "And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 35:10", "text": "All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, even the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 35:11", "text": "False witnesses arose; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 35:12", "text": "They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 35:13", "text": "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 35:14", "text": "I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 35:15", "text": "But in my adversity they rejoiced, and assembled themselves: [yes], the abjects assembled themselves against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 35:16", "text": "With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 35:17", "text": "Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 35:18", "text": "I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among many people." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 35:19", "text": "Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 35:20", "text": "For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 35:21", "text": "Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 35:22", "text": "[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 35:23", "text": "Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] to my cause, my God and my Lord." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 35:24", "text": "Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 35:25", "text": "Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 35:26", "text": "Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify [themselves] against me." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 35:27", "text": "Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 35:28", "text": "And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy praise all the day long." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "Psalms 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 36:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 36:2", "text": "For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 36:3", "text": "The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, [and] to do good." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 36:4", "text": "He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 36:5", "text": "Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] to the clouds." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 36:6", "text": "Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 36:7", "text": "How excellent [is] thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 36:8", "text": "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 36:9", "text": "For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 36:10", "text": "O continue thy loving-kindness to them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 36:11", "text": "Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 36:12", "text": "There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise." } ] }, { "chapter": 37, "name": "Psalms 37", "verses": [ { "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 37:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 37:2", "text": "For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 37:3", "text": "Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 37:4", "text": "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he will give thee the desires of thy heart." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 37:5", "text": "Commit thy way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he will bring [it] to pass." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 37:6", "text": "And he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 37:7", "text": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 37:8", "text": "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 37:9", "text": "For evil doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 37:10", "text": "For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yes, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be]." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 37:11", "text": "But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 37:12", "text": "The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 37:13", "text": "The Lord will laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 37:14", "text": "The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as are of upright deportment." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 37:15", "text": "Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 37:16", "text": "A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 37:17", "text": "For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 37:18", "text": "The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 37:19", "text": "They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 37:20", "text": "But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 37:21", "text": "The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 37:22", "text": "For [such as are] blessed by him shall inherit the earth; and [they that are] cursed by him shall be cut off." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 37:23", "text": "The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 37:24", "text": "Though he should fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 37:25", "text": "I have been young, and [now] am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 37:26", "text": "[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 37:27", "text": "Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 37:28", "text": "For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 37:29", "text": "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 37:30", "text": "The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 37:31", "text": "The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 37:32", "text": "The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 37:33", "text": "The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 37:34", "text": "Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it]." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 37:35", "text": "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 37:36", "text": "Yet he passed away, and lo, he [was] not: yes, I sought him, but he could not be found." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 37:37", "text": "Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the end of [that] man [is] peace." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 37:38", "text": "But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 37:39", "text": "But the salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is] their strength in the time of trouble." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 37:40", "text": "And the LORD will help them, and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him." } ] }, { "chapter": 38, "name": "Psalms 38", "verses": [ { "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 38:1", "text": "A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 38:2", "text": "For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 38:3", "text": "[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 38:4", "text": "For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 38:5", "text": "My wounds are offensive, [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 38:6", "text": "I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 38:7", "text": "For my loins are filled with a lothsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 38:8", "text": "I am feeble and grievously broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 38:9", "text": "Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 38:10", "text": "My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 38:11", "text": "My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction; and my kinsmen stand afar off." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 38:12", "text": "They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 38:13", "text": "But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 38:14", "text": "Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 38:15", "text": "For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 38:16", "text": "For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 38:17", "text": "For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 38:18", "text": "For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 38:19", "text": "But my enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 38:20", "text": "They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow [the thing that is] good." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 38:21", "text": "Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 38:22", "text": "Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation." } ] }, { "chapter": 39, "name": "Psalms 39", "verses": [ { "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 39:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 39:2", "text": "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 39:3", "text": "My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] I spoke with my tongue." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 39:4", "text": "LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it [is]; [that] I may know how frail I [am]." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 39:5", "text": "Behold, thou hast made my days [as] a hand-breadth; and my age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 39:6", "text": "Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 39:7", "text": "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 39:8", "text": "Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 39:9", "text": "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it]." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 39:10", "text": "Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 39:11", "text": "When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 39:12", "text": "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were]." }, { "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 39:13", "text": "O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more." } ] }, { "chapter": 40, "name": "Psalms 40", "verses": [ { "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 40:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 40:2", "text": "He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 40:3", "text": "And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 40:4", "text": "Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 40:5", "text": "Many, O LORD, my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 40:6", "text": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; my ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 40:7", "text": "Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me," }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 40:8", "text": "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 40:9", "text": "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 40:10", "text": "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 40:11", "text": "Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 40:12", "text": "For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 40:13", "text": "Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 40:14", "text": "Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 40:15", "text": "Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 40:16", "text": "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified." }, { "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 40:17", "text": "But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no delay, O my God." } ] }, { "chapter": 41, "name": "Psalms 41", "verses": [ { "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 41:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in the time of trouble." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 41:2", "text": "The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 41:3", "text": "The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 41:4", "text": "I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 41:5", "text": "My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?" }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 41:6", "text": "And if he cometh to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it]." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 41:7", "text": "All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 41:8", "text": "An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast to him: and [now] that he lieth he shall rise no more." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 41:9", "text": "Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 41:10", "text": "But thou, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 41:11", "text": "By this I know that thou favorest me, because my enemy doth not triumph over me." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 41:12", "text": "And as for me, thou upholdest me in my integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever." }, { "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 41:13", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and amen." } ] }, { "chapter": 42, "name": "Psalms 42", "verses": [ { "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 42:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, O God." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 42:2", "text": "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 42:3", "text": "My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where [is] thy God?" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 42:4", "text": "When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy-day." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 42:5", "text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 42:6", "text": "O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 42:7", "text": "Deep calleth to deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 42:8", "text": "[Yet] the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer to the God of my life." }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 42:9", "text": "I will say to God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 42:10", "text": "[As] with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where [is] thy God?" }, { "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 42:11", "text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God." } ] }, { "chapter": 43, "name": "Psalms 43", "verses": [ { "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 43:1", "text": "Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 43:2", "text": "For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 43:3", "text": "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 43:4", "text": "Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy: yes, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God." }, { "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 43:5", "text": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who] is the health of my countenance, and my God." } ] }, { "chapter": 44, "name": "Psalms 44", "verses": [ { "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 44:1", "text": "To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 44:2", "text": "[How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 44:3", "text": "For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor to them." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 44:4", "text": "Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 44:5", "text": "Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 44:6", "text": "For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 44:7", "text": "But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 44:8", "text": "In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 44:9", "text": "But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 44:10", "text": "Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 44:11", "text": "Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 44:12", "text": "Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 44:13", "text": "Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 44:14", "text": "Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 44:15", "text": "My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me," }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 44:16", "text": "For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 44:17", "text": "All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 44:18", "text": "Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 44:19", "text": "Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 44:20", "text": "If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 44:21", "text": "Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 44:22", "text": "Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 44:23", "text": "Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 44:24", "text": "Why hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?" }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 44:25", "text": "For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth." }, { "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 44:26", "text": "Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake." } ] }, { "chapter": 45, "name": "Psalms 45", "verses": [ { "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 45:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 45:2", "text": "Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 45:3", "text": "Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 45:4", "text": "And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 45:5", "text": "Thy arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; [by which] the people fall under thee." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 45:6", "text": "Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the scepter of thy kingdom [is] a scepter of justice." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 45:7", "text": "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 45:8", "text": "All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made thee glad." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 45:9", "text": "Kings daughters [were] among thy honorable women: upon thy right hand stood the queen in gold of Ophir." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 45:10", "text": "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thy ear; forget also thy own people, and thy father's house;" }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 45:11", "text": "So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy lord; and worship thou him." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 45:12", "text": "And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; [even] the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 45:13", "text": "The king's daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 45:14", "text": "She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needle-work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to thee." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 45:15", "text": "With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 45:16", "text": "Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth." }, { "chapter": 45, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 45:17", "text": "I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 46, "name": "Psalms 46", "verses": [ { "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 46:1", "text": "To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 46:2", "text": "Therefore will we not fear, though the earth shall be removed, and though the mountains shall be carried into the midst of the sea;" }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 46:3", "text": "[Though] its waters shall roar [and] be disturbed, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 46:4", "text": "[There is] a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the Most High." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 46:5", "text": "God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, [and that] right early." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 46:6", "text": "The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 46:7", "text": "The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 46:8", "text": "Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 46:9", "text": "He maketh wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear asunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 46:10", "text": "Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." }, { "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 46:11", "text": "The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah." } ] }, { "chapter": 47, "name": "Psalms 47", "verses": [ { "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 47:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout to God with the voice of triumph." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 47:2", "text": "For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over all the earth." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 47:3", "text": "He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 47:4", "text": "He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 47:5", "text": "God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 47:6", "text": "Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 47:7", "text": "For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 47:8", "text": "God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness." }, { "chapter": 47, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 47:9", "text": "The princes of the people are assembled, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] to God: he is greatly exalted." } ] }, { "chapter": 48, "name": "Psalms 48", "verses": [ { "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 48:1", "text": "A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 48:2", "text": "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 48:3", "text": "God is known in her palaces for a refuge." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 48:4", "text": "For lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 48:5", "text": "They saw [it], [and] so they wondered; they were troubled, [and] hasted away." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 48:6", "text": "Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 48:7", "text": "Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 48:8", "text": "As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 48:9", "text": "We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 48:10", "text": "According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise to the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 48:11", "text": "Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 48:12", "text": "Walk about Zion, and go round her: number her towers." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 48:13", "text": "Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following." }, { "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 48:14", "text": "For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] to death." } ] }, { "chapter": 49, "name": "Psalms 49", "verses": [ { "chapter": 49, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 49:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of the world:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 49:2", "text": "Both low and high, rich and poor together." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 49:3", "text": "My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart [shall be] of understanding." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 49:4", "text": "I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 49:5", "text": "Why should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity of my heels shall encompass me?" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 49:6", "text": "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 49:7", "text": "None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 49:8", "text": "(For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 49:9", "text": "That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 49:10", "text": "For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 49:11", "text": "Their inward thought [is], [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 49:12", "text": "Nevertheless man [being] in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 49:13", "text": "This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 49:14", "text": "Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 49:15", "text": "But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 49:16", "text": "Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;" }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 49:17", "text": "For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 49:18", "text": "Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 49:19", "text": "He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light." }, { "chapter": 49, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 49:20", "text": "Man [that is] in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish." } ] }, { "chapter": 50, "name": "Psalms 50", "verses": [ { "chapter": 50, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 50:1", "text": "A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 50:2", "text": "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 50:3", "text": "Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 50:4", "text": "He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 50:5", "text": "Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 50:6", "text": "And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 50:7", "text": "Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 50:8", "text": "I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] continually before me." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 50:9", "text": "I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 50:10", "text": "For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 50:11", "text": "I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 50:12", "text": "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 50:13", "text": "Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?" }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 50:14", "text": "Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:" }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 50:15", "text": "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 50:16", "text": "But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?" }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 50:17", "text": "Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 50:18", "text": "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 50:19", "text": "Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 50:20", "text": "Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 50:21", "text": "These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 50:22", "text": "Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver." }, { "chapter": 50, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 50:23", "text": "Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show the salvation of God." } ] }, { "chapter": 51, "name": "Psalms 51", "verses": [ { "chapter": 51, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 51:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 51:2", "text": "Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 51:3", "text": "For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 51:4", "text": "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 51:5", "text": "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 51:6", "text": "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 51:7", "text": "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 51:8", "text": "Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 51:9", "text": "Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 51:10", "text": "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 51:11", "text": "Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 51:12", "text": "Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 51:13", "text": "[Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted to thee." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 51:14", "text": "Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 51:15", "text": "O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 51:16", "text": "For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt-offering." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 51:17", "text": "The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 51:18", "text": "Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 51, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 51:19", "text": "Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thy altar." } ] }, { "chapter": 52, "name": "Psalms 52", "verses": [ { "chapter": 52, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 52:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 52:2", "text": "Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 52:3", "text": "Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 52:4", "text": "Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 52:5", "text": "God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling-place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 52:6", "text": "The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:" }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 52:7", "text": "Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 52:8", "text": "But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 52, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 52:9", "text": "I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]: and I will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy saints." } ] }, { "chapter": 53, "name": "Psalms 53", "verses": [ { "chapter": 53, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 53:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good." }, { "chapter": 53, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 53:2", "text": "God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God." }, { "chapter": 53, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 53:3", "text": "Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one." }, { "chapter": 53, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 53:4", "text": "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread! they have not called upon God." }, { "chapter": 53, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 53:5", "text": "There they were in great fear, [where] no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth [against] thee: thou hast put [them] to shame, because God hath despised them." }, { "chapter": 53, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 53:6", "text": "O that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad." } ] }, { "chapter": 54, "name": "Psalms 54", "verses": [ { "chapter": 54, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 54:1", "text": "To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength." }, { "chapter": 54, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 54:2", "text": "Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth." }, { "chapter": 54, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 54:3", "text": "For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah." }, { "chapter": 54, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 54:4", "text": "Behold, God [is] my helper: the Lord [is] with them that uphold my soul." }, { "chapter": 54, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 54:5", "text": "He will reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in thy truth." }, { "chapter": 54, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 54:6", "text": "I will freely sacrifice to thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for [it is] good." }, { "chapter": 54, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 54:7", "text": "For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath seen [its desire] upon my enemies." } ] }, { "chapter": 55, "name": "Psalms 55", "verses": [ { "chapter": 55, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 55:1", "text": "To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 55:2", "text": "Attend to me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;" }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 55:3", "text": "Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 55:4", "text": "My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 55:5", "text": "Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 55:6", "text": "And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! [for then] I would fly away, and be at rest." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 55:7", "text": "Lo, [then] I would wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 55:8", "text": "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 55:9", "text": "Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 55:10", "text": "Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 55:11", "text": "Wickedness [is] in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 55:12", "text": "For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] magnified [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:" }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 55:13", "text": "But [it was] thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 55:14", "text": "We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked to the house of God in company." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 55:15", "text": "Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 55:16", "text": "As for me, I will call upon God: and the LORD will save me." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 55:17", "text": "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he will hear my voice." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 55:18", "text": "He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me: for there were many with me." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 55:19", "text": "God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 55:20", "text": "He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 55:21", "text": "[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 55:22", "text": "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved." }, { "chapter": 55, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 55:23", "text": "But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 56, "name": "Psalms 56", "verses": [ { "chapter": 56, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 56:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 56:2", "text": "My enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they are] many that fight against me, O thou Most High." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 56:3", "text": "In the time when I am afraid, I will trust in thee." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 56:4", "text": "In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 56:5", "text": "Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 56:6", "text": "They assemble themselves, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 56:7", "text": "Shall they escape by iniquity; in [thy] anger cast down the people, O God." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 56:8", "text": "Thou numberest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?" }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 56:9", "text": "When I cry [to thee], then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God [is] for me." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 56:10", "text": "In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] word." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 56:11", "text": "In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 56:12", "text": "Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises to thee." }, { "chapter": 56, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 56:13", "text": "For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt thou] not [deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?" } ] }, { "chapter": 57, "name": "Psalms 57", "verses": [ { "chapter": 57, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 57:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yes, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities are overpast." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 57:2", "text": "I will cry to God most high; to God that performeth [all things] for me." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 57:3", "text": "He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 57:4", "text": "My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 57:5", "text": "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 57:6", "text": "They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen [themselves]. Selah." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 57:7", "text": "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 57:8", "text": "Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 57:9", "text": "I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing to thee among the nations." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 57:10", "text": "For thy mercy [is] great to the heavens, and thy truth to the clouds." }, { "chapter": 57, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 57:11", "text": "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth." } ] }, { "chapter": 58, "name": "Psalms 58", "verses": [ { "chapter": 58, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 58:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?" }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 58:2", "text": "Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 58:3", "text": "The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 58:4", "text": "Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;" }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 58:5", "text": "Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 58:6", "text": "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 58:7", "text": "Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 58:8", "text": "As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 58:9", "text": "Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 58:10", "text": "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 58, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 58:11", "text": "So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth." } ] }, { "chapter": 59, "name": "Psalms 59", "verses": [ { "chapter": 59, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 59:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 59:2", "text": "Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 59:3", "text": "For lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 59:4", "text": "They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to help me, and behold." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 59:5", "text": "Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 59:6", "text": "They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go about the city." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 59:7", "text": "Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?" }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 59:8", "text": "But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 59:9", "text": "[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defense." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 59:10", "text": "The God of my mercy will succor me: God will let me see [my desire] upon my enemies." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 59:11", "text": "Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 59:12", "text": "[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 59:13", "text": "Consume [them] in wrath, consume [them], that they [may] not [be]: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 59:14", "text": "And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go about the city." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 59:15", "text": "Let them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they are not satisfied." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 59:16", "text": "But I will sing of thy power; yes, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble." }, { "chapter": 59, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 59:17", "text": "To thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defense, [and] the God of my mercy." } ] }, { "chapter": 60, "name": "Psalms 60", "verses": [ { "chapter": 60, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 60:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 60:2", "text": "Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal its breaches; for it shaketh." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 60:3", "text": "Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 60:4", "text": "Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 60:5", "text": "That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand, and hear me." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 60:6", "text": "God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 60:7", "text": "Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of my head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;" }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 60:8", "text": "Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 60:9", "text": "Who will bring me [into] the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?" }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 60:10", "text": "[Wilt] thou not, O God, [who] hadst cast us off? and [thou], O God, [who] didst not go out with our armies?" }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 60:11", "text": "Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man." }, { "chapter": 60, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 60:12", "text": "Through God we shall do valiantly: for he will tread down our enemies." } ] }, { "chapter": 61, "name": "Psalms 61", "verses": [ { "chapter": 61, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 61:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Neginah, [A Psalm] of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 61:2", "text": "From the end of the earth will I cry to thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 61:3", "text": "For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 61:4", "text": "I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 61:5", "text": "For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the heritage of those that fear thy name." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 61:6", "text": "Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many generations." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 61:7", "text": "He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, [which] may preserve him." }, { "chapter": 61, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 61:8", "text": "So will I sing praise to thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows." } ] }, { "chapter": 62, "name": "Psalms 62", "verses": [ { "chapter": 62, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 62:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my salvation." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 62:2", "text": "He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defense; I shall not be greatly moved." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 62:3", "text": "How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be], [and as] a tottering fence." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 62:4", "text": "They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellence: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 62:5", "text": "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 62:6", "text": "He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defense; I shall not be moved." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 62:7", "text": "In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, [and] my refuge, [is] in God." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 62:8", "text": "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 62:9", "text": "Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 62:10", "text": "Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them]." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 62:11", "text": "God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power [belongeth] to God." }, { "chapter": 62, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 62:12", "text": "Also to thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work." } ] }, { "chapter": 63, "name": "Psalms 63", "verses": [ { "chapter": 63, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 63:1", "text": "A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;" }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 63:2", "text": "To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 63:3", "text": "Because thy loving-kindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 63:4", "text": "Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 63:5", "text": "My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:" }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 63:6", "text": "When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 63:7", "text": "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 63:8", "text": "My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 63:9", "text": "But those [that] seek my soul to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 63:10", "text": "They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes." }, { "chapter": 63, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 63:11", "text": "But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped." } ] }, { "chapter": 64, "name": "Psalms 64", "verses": [ { "chapter": 64, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 64:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy." }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 64:2", "text": "Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:" }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 64:3", "text": "Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:" }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 64:4", "text": "That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not." }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 64:5", "text": "They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who will see them?" }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 64:6", "text": "They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep." }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 64:7", "text": "But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded." }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 64:8", "text": "So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away." }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 64:9", "text": "And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing." }, { "chapter": 64, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 64:10", "text": "The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory." } ] }, { "chapter": 65, "name": "Psalms 65", "verses": [ { "chapter": 65, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 65:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and] Song of David. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion: and to thee shall the vow be performed." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 65:2", "text": "O thou that hearest prayer, to thee shall all flesh come." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 65:3", "text": "Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 65:4", "text": "Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [to thee], [that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 65:5", "text": "[By] terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the sea:" }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 65:6", "text": "Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains; [being] girded with power:" }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 65:7", "text": "Who stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 65:8", "text": "They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 65:9", "text": "Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, [which] is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 65:10", "text": "Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 65:11", "text": "Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 65:12", "text": "They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side." }, { "chapter": 65, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 65:13", "text": "The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing." } ] }, { "chapter": 66, "name": "Psalms 66", "verses": [ { "chapter": 66, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 66:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm. Make a joyful noise to God, all ye lands:" }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 66:2", "text": "Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 66:3", "text": "Say to God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thy enemies submit themselves to thee." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 66:4", "text": "All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing to thee; they shall sing [to] thy name. Selah." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 66:5", "text": "Come and see the works of God: [he is] terrible [in his] doing towards the children of men." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 66:6", "text": "He turned the sea into dry [land]: they went through the flood on foot: there we rejoiced in him." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 66:7", "text": "He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 66:8", "text": "O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:" }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 66:9", "text": "Who holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 66:10", "text": "For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 66:11", "text": "Thou hast brought us into the net; thou hast laid affliction upon our loins." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 66:12", "text": "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy [place]." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 66:13", "text": "I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings: I will pay thee my vows," }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 66:14", "text": "Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 66:15", "text": "I will offer to thee burnt-sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 66:16", "text": "Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 66:17", "text": "I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 66:18", "text": "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]:" }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 66:19", "text": "[But] verily God hath heard [me]; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer." }, { "chapter": 66, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 66:20", "text": "Blessed [be] God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me." } ] }, { "chapter": 67, "name": "Psalms 67", "verses": [ { "chapter": 67, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 67:1", "text": "To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song. God be merciful to us, and bless us; [and] cause his face to shine upon us. Selah." }, { "chapter": 67, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 67:2", "text": "That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations." }, { "chapter": 67, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 67:3", "text": "Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee." }, { "chapter": 67, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 67:4", "text": "O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah." }, { "chapter": 67, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 67:5", "text": "Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee." }, { "chapter": 67, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 67:6", "text": "[Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, will bless us." }, { "chapter": 67, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 67:7", "text": "God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him." } ] }, { "chapter": 68, "name": "Psalms 68", "verses": [ { "chapter": 68, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 68:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 68:2", "text": "As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of God." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 68:3", "text": "But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 68:4", "text": "Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 68:5", "text": "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 68:6", "text": "God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land]." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 68:7", "text": "O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:" }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 68:8", "text": "The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 68:9", "text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thy inheritance, when it was weary." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 68:10", "text": "Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 68:11", "text": "The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that published [it]." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 68:12", "text": "Kings of armies fled apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 68:13", "text": "Though ye have lain among the pots, [yet shall ye be as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 68:14", "text": "When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow in Salmon." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 68:15", "text": "The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; a high hill [as] the hill of Bashan." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 68:16", "text": "Why leap ye, ye lofty hills? [this is] the hill [which] God desireth to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 68:17", "text": "The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even] thousands of angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai, in the holy [place]." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 68:18", "text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yes, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them]." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 68:19", "text": "Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with benefits], [even] the God of our salvation. Selah." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 68:20", "text": "[He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord [belong] the issues from death." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 68:21", "text": "But God will wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy scalp of such one as goeth on still in his trespasses." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 68:22", "text": "The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [my people] again from the depths of the sea." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 68:23", "text": "That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 68:24", "text": "They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 68:25", "text": "The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 68:26", "text": "Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the fountain of Israel." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 68:27", "text": "There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of Judah [and] their counsel, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the princes of Naphtali." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 68:28", "text": "Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 68:29", "text": "Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to thee." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 68:30", "text": "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one shall] submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 68:31", "text": "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Cush shall soon stretch out her hands to God." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 68:32", "text": "Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises [to] the Lord; Selah:" }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 68:33", "text": "To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, [and that] a mighty voice." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 68:34", "text": "Ascribe ye strength to God: his excellence [is] over Israel, and his strength [is] in the clouds." }, { "chapter": 68, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 68:35", "text": "O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power to [his] people. Blessed [be] God." } ] }, { "chapter": 69, "name": "Psalms 69", "verses": [ { "chapter": 69, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 69:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to [my] soul." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 69:2", "text": "I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 69:3", "text": "I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 69:4", "text": "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, [being] my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 69:5", "text": "O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 69:6", "text": "Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 69:7", "text": "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 69:8", "text": "I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 69:9", "text": "For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 69:10", "text": "When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 69:11", "text": "I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 69:12", "text": "They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 69:13", "text": "But as for me, my prayer [is] to thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 69:14", "text": "Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 69:15", "text": "Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 69:16", "text": "Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness [is] good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 69:17", "text": "And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 69:18", "text": "Draw nigh to my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 69:19", "text": "Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries [are] all before thee." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 69:20", "text": "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 69:21", "text": "They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 69:22", "text": "Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 69:23", "text": "Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 69:24", "text": "Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 69:25", "text": "Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 69:26", "text": "For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 69:27", "text": "Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 69:28", "text": "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 69:29", "text": "But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 69:30", "text": "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 69:31", "text": "[This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 69:32", "text": "The humble shall see [this], [and] be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 69:33", "text": "For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 69:34", "text": "Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 69:35", "text": "For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession." }, { "chapter": 69, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 69:36", "text": "The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein." } ] }, { "chapter": 70, "name": "Psalms 70", "verses": [ { "chapter": 70, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 70:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 70, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 70:2", "text": "Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt." }, { "chapter": 70, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 70:3", "text": "Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha." }, { "chapter": 70, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 70:4", "text": "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified." }, { "chapter": 70, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 70:5", "text": "But I [am] poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no delay." } ] }, { "chapter": 71, "name": "Psalms 71", "verses": [ { "chapter": 71, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 71:1", "text": "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 71:2", "text": "Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thy ear to me, and save me." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 71:3", "text": "Be thou my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock and my fortress." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 71:4", "text": "Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 71:5", "text": "For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 71:6", "text": "By thee have I been sustained from my birth: thou art he that brought me into life: my praise [shall be] continually of thee." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 71:7", "text": "I am as a wonder to many; but thou [art] my strong refuge." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 71:8", "text": "Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise [and with] thy honor all the day." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 71:9", "text": "Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 71:10", "text": "For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together," }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 71:11", "text": "Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for [there is] none to deliver [him]." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 71:12", "text": "O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 71:13", "text": "Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 71:14", "text": "But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 71:15", "text": "My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof]." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 71:16", "text": "I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 71:17", "text": "O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 71:18", "text": "Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 71:19", "text": "Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like to thee!" }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 71:20", "text": "[Thou], who hast shown me great and severe troubles, wilt revive me again, and wilt bring me again from the depths of the earth." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 71:21", "text": "Thou wilt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 71:22", "text": "I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy truth, O my God: to thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 71:23", "text": "My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed." }, { "chapter": 71, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 71:24", "text": "My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt." } ] }, { "chapter": 72, "name": "Psalms 72", "verses": [ { "chapter": 72, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 72:1", "text": "[A Psalm] for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness to the king's son." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 72:2", "text": "He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 72:3", "text": "The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 72:4", "text": "He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 72:5", "text": "They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 72:6", "text": "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the earth." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 72:7", "text": "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 72:8", "text": "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 72:9", "text": "They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 72:10", "text": "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 72:11", "text": "Yes, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 72:12", "text": "For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and [him] that hath no helper." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 72:13", "text": "He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 72:14", "text": "He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 72:15", "text": "And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; [and] daily shall he be praised." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 72:16", "text": "There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit of it shall shake like Lebanon: and [they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 72:17", "text": "His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 72:18", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 72:19", "text": "And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled [with] his glory; Amen, and amen." }, { "chapter": 72, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 72:20", "text": "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended." } ] }, { "chapter": 73, "name": "Psalms 73", "verses": [ { "chapter": 73, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 73:1", "text": "A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 73:2", "text": "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 73:3", "text": "For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 73:4", "text": "For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 73:5", "text": "They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they afflicted like [other] men." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 73:6", "text": "Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 73:7", "text": "Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 73:8", "text": "They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 73:9", "text": "They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 73:10", "text": "Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 73:11", "text": "And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?" }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 73:12", "text": "Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 73:13", "text": "Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocence." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 73:14", "text": "For all the day long have I been afflicted, and chastened every morning." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 73:15", "text": "If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 73:16", "text": "When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;" }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 73:17", "text": "Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] I understood their end." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 73:18", "text": "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 73:19", "text": "How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 73:20", "text": "As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 73:21", "text": "Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 73:22", "text": "So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 73:23", "text": "Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast held [me] by my right hand." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 73:24", "text": "Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 73:25", "text": "Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire besides thee." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 73:26", "text": "My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 73:27", "text": "For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go astray from thee." }, { "chapter": 73, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 73:28", "text": "But [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works." } ] }, { "chapter": 74, "name": "Psalms 74", "verses": [ { "chapter": 74, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 74:1", "text": "Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?" }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 74:2", "text": "Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 74:3", "text": "Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 74:4", "text": "Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 74:5", "text": "[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 74:6", "text": "But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 74:7", "text": "They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 74:8", "text": "They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 74:9", "text": "We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 74:10", "text": "O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?" }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 74:11", "text": "Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 74:12", "text": "For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 74:13", "text": "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 74:14", "text": "Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, [and] didst give him [to be] food to the people inhabiting the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 74:15", "text": "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 74:16", "text": "The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 74:17", "text": "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 74:18", "text": "Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 74:19", "text": "O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove to the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 74:20", "text": "Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 74:21", "text": "O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 74:22", "text": "Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily." }, { "chapter": 74, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 74:23", "text": "Forget not the voice of thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually." } ] }, { "chapter": 75, "name": "Psalms 75", "verses": [ { "chapter": 75, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 75:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. To thee, O God, do we give thanks, [to thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 75:2", "text": "When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 75:3", "text": "The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 75:4", "text": "I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:" }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 75:5", "text": "Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 75:6", "text": "For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 75:7", "text": "But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 75:8", "text": "For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs of it all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them]." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 75:9", "text": "But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 75, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 75:10", "text": "All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted." } ] }, { "chapter": 76, "name": "Psalms 76", "verses": [ { "chapter": 76, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 76:1", "text": "To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. In Judah [is] God known: his name [is] great in Israel." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 76:2", "text": "In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 76:3", "text": "There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 76:4", "text": "Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of prey." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 76:5", "text": "The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 76:6", "text": "At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 76:7", "text": "Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?" }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 76:8", "text": "Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still," }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 76:9", "text": "When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 76:10", "text": "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath wilt thou restrain." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 76:11", "text": "Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that are about him bring presents to him that ought to be feared." }, { "chapter": 76, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 76:12", "text": "He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth." } ] }, { "chapter": 77, "name": "Psalms 77", "verses": [ { "chapter": 77, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 77:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, [even] to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 77:2", "text": "In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 77:3", "text": "I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 77:4", "text": "Thou holdest my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 77:5", "text": "I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 77:6", "text": "I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 77:7", "text": "Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?" }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 77:8", "text": "Is his mercy wholly gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?" }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 77:9", "text": "Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 77:10", "text": "And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the Most High." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 77:11", "text": "I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 77:12", "text": "I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 77:13", "text": "Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as [our] God!" }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 77:14", "text": "Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 77:15", "text": "Thou hast with [thy] arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 77:16", "text": "The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were disturbed." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 77:17", "text": "The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thy arrows also went abroad." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 77:18", "text": "The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 77:19", "text": "Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known." }, { "chapter": 77, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 77:20", "text": "Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron." } ] }, { "chapter": 78, "name": "Psalms 78", "verses": [ { "chapter": 78, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 78:1", "text": "Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 78:2", "text": "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 78:3", "text": "Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 78:4", "text": "We will not hide [them] from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 78:5", "text": "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 78:6", "text": "That the generation to come might know [them], [even] the children [who] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 78:7", "text": "That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 78:8", "text": "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 78:9", "text": "The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 78:10", "text": "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 78:11", "text": "And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 78:12", "text": "Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 78:13", "text": "He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 78:14", "text": "In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 78:15", "text": "He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 78:16", "text": "He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 78:17", "text": "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 78:18", "text": "And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 78:19", "text": "Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 78:20", "text": "Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 78:21", "text": "Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 78:22", "text": "Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 78:23", "text": "Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven," }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 78:24", "text": "And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 78:25", "text": "Man ate angels' food: he sent them food to the full." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 78:26", "text": "He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 78:27", "text": "He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 78:28", "text": "And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 78:29", "text": "So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 78:30", "text": "They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat [was] yet in their mouths," }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 78:31", "text": "The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 78:32", "text": "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 78:33", "text": "Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 78:34", "text": "When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 78:35", "text": "And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 78:36", "text": "Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 78:37", "text": "For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 78:38", "text": "But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yes, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 78:39", "text": "For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 78:40", "text": "How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 78:41", "text": "Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 78:42", "text": "They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 78:43", "text": "How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 44, "name": "Psalms 78:44", "text": "And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 45, "name": "Psalms 78:45", "text": "He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 46, "name": "Psalms 78:46", "text": "He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 47, "name": "Psalms 78:47", "text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 48, "name": "Psalms 78:48", "text": "He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 49, "name": "Psalms 78:49", "text": "He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them]." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 50, "name": "Psalms 78:50", "text": "He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 51, "name": "Psalms 78:51", "text": "And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 52, "name": "Psalms 78:52", "text": "But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 53, "name": "Psalms 78:53", "text": "And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 54, "name": "Psalms 78:54", "text": "And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 55, "name": "Psalms 78:55", "text": "He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 56, "name": "Psalms 78:56", "text": "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 57, "name": "Psalms 78:57", "text": "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 58, "name": "Psalms 78:58", "text": "For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 59, "name": "Psalms 78:59", "text": "When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 60, "name": "Psalms 78:60", "text": "So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 61, "name": "Psalms 78:61", "text": "And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 62, "name": "Psalms 78:62", "text": "He gave over his people also to the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 63, "name": "Psalms 78:63", "text": "The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 64, "name": "Psalms 78:64", "text": "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 65, "name": "Psalms 78:65", "text": "Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 66, "name": "Psalms 78:66", "text": "And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 67, "name": "Psalms 78:67", "text": "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 68, "name": "Psalms 78:68", "text": "But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 69, "name": "Psalms 78:69", "text": "And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 70, "name": "Psalms 78:70", "text": "He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:" }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 71, "name": "Psalms 78:71", "text": "From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 78, "verse": 72, "name": "Psalms 78:72", "text": "So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands." } ] }, { "chapter": 79, "name": "Psalms 79", "verses": [ { "chapter": 79, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 79:1", "text": "A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 79:2", "text": "The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to the beasts of the earth." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 79:3", "text": "Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them]." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 79:4", "text": "We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 79:5", "text": "How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?" }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 79:6", "text": "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 79:7", "text": "For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 79:8", "text": "O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 79:9", "text": "Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 79:10", "text": "Why should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] avenging the blood of thy servants [which is] shed." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 79:11", "text": "Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;" }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 79:12", "text": "And render to our neighbors seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord." }, { "chapter": 79, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 79:13", "text": "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will show forth thy praise to all generations." } ] }, { "chapter": 80, "name": "Psalms 80", "verses": [ { "chapter": 80, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 80:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubim, shine forth." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 80:2", "text": "Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 80:3", "text": "Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 80:4", "text": "O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?" }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 80:5", "text": "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 80:6", "text": "Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 80:7", "text": "Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 80:8", "text": "Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 80:9", "text": "Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 80:10", "text": "The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs [were like] the goodly cedars." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 80:11", "text": "She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 80:12", "text": "Why hast thou [then] broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?" }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 80:13", "text": "The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 80:14", "text": "Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;" }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 80:15", "text": "And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 80:16", "text": "[It is] burnt with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 80:17", "text": "Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 80:18", "text": "So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name." }, { "chapter": 80, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 80:19", "text": "Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." } ] }, { "chapter": 81, "name": "Psalms 81", "verses": [ { "chapter": 81, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 81:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 81:2", "text": "Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 81:3", "text": "Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 81:4", "text": "For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 81:5", "text": "This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] I understood not." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 81:6", "text": "I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 81:7", "text": "Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 81:8", "text": "Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;" }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 81:9", "text": "There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 81:10", "text": "I [am] the LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 81:11", "text": "But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 81:12", "text": "So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 81:13", "text": "O that my people had hearkened to me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!" }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 81:14", "text": "I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 81:15", "text": "The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever." }, { "chapter": 81, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 81:16", "text": "He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 82, "name": "Psalms 82", "verses": [ { "chapter": 82, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 82:1", "text": "A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 82:2", "text": "How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 82:3", "text": "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 82:4", "text": "Deliver the poor and needy: deliver [them] from the hand of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 82:5", "text": "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 82:6", "text": "I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the Most High." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 82:7", "text": "But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." }, { "chapter": 82, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 82:8", "text": "Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou wilt inherit all nations." } ] }, { "chapter": 83, "name": "Psalms 83", "verses": [ { "chapter": 83, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 83:1", "text": "A song, [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 83:2", "text": "For lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 83:3", "text": "They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 83:4", "text": "They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 83:5", "text": "For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee," }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 83:6", "text": "The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;" }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 83:7", "text": "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;" }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 83:8", "text": "Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 83:9", "text": "Do to them as [to] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:" }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 83:10", "text": "[Who] perished at En-dor: they became [as] dung for the earth." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 83:11", "text": "Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:" }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 83:12", "text": "Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 83:13", "text": "O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 83:14", "text": "As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;" }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 83:15", "text": "So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 83:16", "text": "Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 83:17", "text": "Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish:" }, { "chapter": 83, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 83:18", "text": "That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth." } ] }, { "chapter": 84, "name": "Psalms 84", "verses": [ { "chapter": 84, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 84:1", "text": "To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!" }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 84:2", "text": "My soul longeth, and even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 84:3", "text": "Yes, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 84:4", "text": "Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 84:5", "text": "Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them]." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 84:6", "text": "[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 84:7", "text": "They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 84:8", "text": "O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 84:9", "text": "Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thy anointed." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 84:10", "text": "For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 84:11", "text": "For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." }, { "chapter": 84, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 84:12", "text": "O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 85, "name": "Psalms 85", "verses": [ { "chapter": 85, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 85:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favorable to thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 85:2", "text": "Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 85:3", "text": "Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned [thyself] from the fierceness of thy anger." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 85:4", "text": "Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thy anger towards us to cease." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 85:5", "text": "Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thy anger to all generations?" }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 85:6", "text": "Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?" }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 85:7", "text": "Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 85:8", "text": "I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 85:9", "text": "Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 85:10", "text": "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other]." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 85:11", "text": "Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 85:12", "text": "Yes, the LORD will give [that which is] good; and our land shall yield her increase." }, { "chapter": 85, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 85:13", "text": "Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the way of his steps." } ] }, { "chapter": 86, "name": "Psalms 86", "verses": [ { "chapter": 86, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 86:1", "text": "A Prayer of David. Bow down thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 86:2", "text": "Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 86:3", "text": "Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to thee daily." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 86:4", "text": "Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 86:5", "text": "For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon thee." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 86:6", "text": "Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 86:7", "text": "In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 86:8", "text": "Among the gods [there is] none like thee, O Lord; neither [are there any works] like thy works." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 86:9", "text": "All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 86:10", "text": "For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God alone." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 86:11", "text": "Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 86:12", "text": "I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 86:13", "text": "For great [is] thy mercy towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 86:14", "text": "O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 86:15", "text": "But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 86:16", "text": "O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid." }, { "chapter": 86, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 86:17", "text": "Show me a token for good; that they who hate me may see [it], and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me." } ] }, { "chapter": 87, "name": "Psalms 87", "verses": [ { "chapter": 87, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 87:1", "text": "A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation [is] in the holy mountains." }, { "chapter": 87, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 87:2", "text": "The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 87, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 87:3", "text": "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah." }, { "chapter": 87, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 87:4", "text": "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Cush; this [man] was born there." }, { "chapter": 87, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 87:5", "text": "And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the Highest himself shall establish her." }, { "chapter": 87, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 87:6", "text": "The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah." }, { "chapter": 87, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 87:7", "text": "As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 88, "name": "Psalms 88", "verses": [ { "chapter": 88, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 88:1", "text": "A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before thee:" }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 88:2", "text": "Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;" }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 88:3", "text": "For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 88:4", "text": "I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:" }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 88:5", "text": "Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 88:6", "text": "Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 88:7", "text": "Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 88:8", "text": "Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 88:9", "text": "My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 88:10", "text": "Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 88:11", "text": "Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?" }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 88:12", "text": "Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?" }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 88:13", "text": "But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 88:14", "text": "LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?" }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 88:15", "text": "I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 88:16", "text": "Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 88:17", "text": "They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together." }, { "chapter": 88, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 88:18", "text": "Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] my acquaintance into darkness." } ] }, { "chapter": 89, "name": "Psalms 89", "verses": [ { "chapter": 89, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 89:1", "text": "Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 89:2", "text": "For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 89:3", "text": "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant," }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 89:4", "text": "Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 89:5", "text": "And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD; thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 89:6", "text": "For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? [who] among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 89:7", "text": "God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence by all [them that are] about him." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 89:8", "text": "O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like to thee? or to thy faithfulness around thee?" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 89:9", "text": "Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou stillest them." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 89:10", "text": "Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thy enemies with thy strong arm." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 89:11", "text": "The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world, and the fullness of it, thou hast founded them." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 89:12", "text": "The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 89:13", "text": "Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 89:14", "text": "Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 89:15", "text": "Blessed [are] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 89:16", "text": "In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 89:17", "text": "For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 89:18", "text": "For the LORD [is] our defense; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 89:19", "text": "Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one, and say, I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 89:20", "text": "I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 89:21", "text": "With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 89:22", "text": "The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 89:23", "text": "And I will beat down his foes before his face, and afflict them that hate him." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 89:24", "text": "But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 89:25", "text": "I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 89:26", "text": "He shall cry to me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 89:27", "text": "Also I will make him [my] first-born, higher than the kings of the earth." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 89:28", "text": "My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 89:29", "text": "His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 89:30", "text": "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 89:31", "text": "If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 89:32", "text": "Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 89:33", "text": "Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 89:34", "text": "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that hath gone out of my lips." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 89:35", "text": "Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 89:36", "text": "His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 89:37", "text": "It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful witness in heaven. Selah." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 89:38", "text": "But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thy anointed." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 89:39", "text": "Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 89:40", "text": "Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 89:41", "text": "All that pass by the way plunder him: he is a reproach to his neighbors." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 89:42", "text": "Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 89:43", "text": "Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 44, "name": "Psalms 89:44", "text": "Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 45, "name": "Psalms 89:45", "text": "The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 46, "name": "Psalms 89:46", "text": "How long, LORD, wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 47, "name": "Psalms 89:47", "text": "Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 48, "name": "Psalms 89:48", "text": "What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah." }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 49, "name": "Psalms 89:49", "text": "Lord, where [are] thy former loving-kindnesses, [which] thou didst swear to David in thy truth?" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 50, "name": "Psalms 89:50", "text": "Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 51, "name": "Psalms 89:51", "text": "With which thy enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of thy anointed" }, { "chapter": 89, "verse": 52, "name": "Psalms 89:52", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen and amen." } ] }, { "chapter": 90, "name": "Psalms 90", "verses": [ { "chapter": 90, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 90:1", "text": "A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 90:2", "text": "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 90:3", "text": "Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 90:4", "text": "For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 90:5", "text": "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep; in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 90:6", "text": "In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 90:7", "text": "For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 90:8", "text": "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 90:9", "text": "For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale [that is told]." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 90:10", "text": "The days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 90:11", "text": "Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 90:12", "text": "So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 90:13", "text": "Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 90:14", "text": "O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 90:15", "text": "Make us glad according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 90:16", "text": "Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children." }, { "chapter": 90, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 90:17", "text": "And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it." } ] }, { "chapter": 91, "name": "Psalms 91", "verses": [ { "chapter": 91, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 91:1", "text": "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 91:2", "text": "I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 91:3", "text": "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 91:4", "text": "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 91:5", "text": "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the arrow [that] flieth by day;" }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 91:6", "text": "[Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noon-day." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 91:7", "text": "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 91:8", "text": "Only with thy eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 91:9", "text": "Because thou hast made the LORD [who is] my refuge, [even] the Most High, thy habitation;" }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 91:10", "text": "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 91:11", "text": "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 91:12", "text": "They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 91:13", "text": "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 91:14", "text": "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 91:15", "text": "He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him." }, { "chapter": 91, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 91:16", "text": "With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." } ] }, { "chapter": 92, "name": "Psalms 92", "verses": [ { "chapter": 92, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 92:1", "text": "A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day. [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to thy name, O Most High." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 92:2", "text": "To show forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 92:3", "text": "Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 92:4", "text": "For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 92:5", "text": "O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 92:6", "text": "A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 92:7", "text": "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:" }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 92:8", "text": "But thou, LORD, [art most] high for evermore." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 92:9", "text": "For lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for lo, thy enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 92:10", "text": "But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 92:11", "text": "My eye also shall see [my desire] on my enemies, [and] my ears shall hear [my desire] of the wicked that rise up against me." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 92:12", "text": "The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 92:13", "text": "Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God." }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 92:14", "text": "They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;" }, { "chapter": 92, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 92:15", "text": "To show that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there is] no unrighteousness in him." } ] }, { "chapter": 93, "name": "Psalms 93", "verses": [ { "chapter": 93, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 93:1", "text": "The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, [with which] he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved." }, { "chapter": 93, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 93:2", "text": "Thy throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting." }, { "chapter": 93, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 93:3", "text": "The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift their waves." }, { "chapter": 93, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 93:4", "text": "The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yes], [than] the mighty waves of the sea." }, { "chapter": 93, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 93:5", "text": "Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thy house, O LORD, for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 94, "name": "Psalms 94", "verses": [ { "chapter": 94, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 94:1", "text": "O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 94:2", "text": "Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 94:3", "text": "LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 94:4", "text": "[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 94:5", "text": "They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 94:6", "text": "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 94:7", "text": "Yet they say, The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it]." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 94:8", "text": "Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 94:9", "text": "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 94:10", "text": "He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, [shall he not know]?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 94:11", "text": "The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 94:12", "text": "Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 94:13", "text": "That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 94:14", "text": "For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 94:15", "text": "But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 94:16", "text": "Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? [or] who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 94:17", "text": "Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 94:18", "text": "When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 94:19", "text": "In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 94:20", "text": "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?" }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 94:21", "text": "They assemble themselves against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 94:22", "text": "But the LORD is my defense; and my God [is] the rock of my refuge." }, { "chapter": 94, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 94:23", "text": "And he will bring upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness; [yes], the LORD our God will cut them off." } ] }, { "chapter": 95, "name": "Psalms 95", "verses": [ { "chapter": 95, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 95:1", "text": "O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 95:2", "text": "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 95:3", "text": "For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 95:4", "text": "In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills [is] his also." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 95:5", "text": "The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land]." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 95:6", "text": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 95:7", "text": "For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, if ye will hear his voice," }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 95:8", "text": "Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:" }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 95:9", "text": "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work." }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 95:10", "text": "Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:" }, { "chapter": 95, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 95:11", "text": "To whom I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest." } ] }, { "chapter": 96, "name": "Psalms 96", "verses": [ { "chapter": 96, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 96:1", "text": "O sing to the LORD a new song: sing to the LORD, all the earth." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 96:2", "text": "Sing to the LORD, bless his name; show forth his salvation from day to day." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 96:3", "text": "Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 96:4", "text": "For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 96:5", "text": "For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made the heavens." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 96:6", "text": "Honor and majesty [are] before him: strength and beauty [are] in his sanctuary." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 96:7", "text": "Give to the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give to the LORD glory and strength." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 96:8", "text": "Give to the LORD the glory [due to] his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 96:9", "text": "O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 96:10", "text": "Say among the heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he will judge the people righteously." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 96:11", "text": "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness of it." }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 96:12", "text": "Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 96, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 96:13", "text": "For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth." } ] }, { "chapter": 97, "name": "Psalms 97", "verses": [ { "chapter": 97, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 97:1", "text": "The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 97:2", "text": "Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 97:3", "text": "A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 97:4", "text": "His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 97:5", "text": "The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 97:6", "text": "The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 97:7", "text": "Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols; worship him, all [ye] gods." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 97:8", "text": "Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 97:9", "text": "For thou, LORD, [art] high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 97:10", "text": "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 97:11", "text": "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." }, { "chapter": 97, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 97:12", "text": "Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." } ] }, { "chapter": 98, "name": "Psalms 98", "verses": [ { "chapter": 98, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 98:1", "text": "A Psalm. O sing to the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 98:2", "text": "The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shown in the sight of the heathen." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 98:3", "text": "He hath remembered his mercy and his truth towards the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 98:4", "text": "Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 98:5", "text": "Sing to the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 98:6", "text": "With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 98:7", "text": "Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it, the world, and they that dwell therein." }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 98:8", "text": "Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together" }, { "chapter": 98, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 98:9", "text": "Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness will he judge the world, and the people with equity." } ] }, { "chapter": 99, "name": "Psalms 99", "verses": [ { "chapter": 99, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 99:1", "text": "The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he setteth [between] the cherubim; let the earth be moved." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 99:2", "text": "The LORD [is] great in Zion; and he [is] high above all people." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 99:3", "text": "Let them praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 99:4", "text": "The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 99:5", "text": "Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for] he [is] holy." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 99:6", "text": "Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 99:7", "text": "He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance [that] he gave them." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 99:8", "text": "Thou didst answer them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions." }, { "chapter": 99, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 99:9", "text": "Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God [is] holy." } ] }, { "chapter": 100, "name": "Psalms 100", "verses": [ { "chapter": 100, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 100:1", "text": "A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all ye lands." }, { "chapter": 100, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 100:2", "text": "Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing." }, { "chapter": 100, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 100:3", "text": "Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture." }, { "chapter": 100, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 100:4", "text": "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful to him, [and] bless his name." }, { "chapter": 100, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 100:5", "text": "For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations." } ] }, { "chapter": 101, "name": "Psalms 101", "verses": [ { "chapter": 101, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 101:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: to thee, O LORD, will I sing." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 101:2", "text": "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 101:3", "text": "I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 101:4", "text": "A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked [person]." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 101:5", "text": "Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 101:6", "text": "My eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 101:7", "text": "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." }, { "chapter": 101, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 101:8", "text": "I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all who practice wickedness from the city of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 102, "name": "Psalms 102", "verses": [ { "chapter": 102, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 102:1", "text": "A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to thee." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 102:2", "text": "Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble; incline thy ear to me: in the day [when] I call, answer me speedily." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 102:3", "text": "For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 102:4", "text": "My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 102:5", "text": "By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 102:6", "text": "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 102:7", "text": "I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 102:8", "text": "My enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are enraged against me are sworn against me." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 102:9", "text": "For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping," }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 102:10", "text": "Because of thy indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 102:11", "text": "My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 102:12", "text": "But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance to all generations." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 102:13", "text": "Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, is come." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 102:14", "text": "For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 102:15", "text": "So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD: and all the kings of the earth thy glory." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 102:16", "text": "When the LORD shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 102:17", "text": "He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 102:18", "text": "This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 102:19", "text": "For he hath looked down from the hight of his sanctuary; from heaven hath the LORD beheld the earth;" }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 102:20", "text": "To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;" }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 102:21", "text": "To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;" }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 102:22", "text": "When the people are assembled, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 102:23", "text": "He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 102:24", "text": "I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] throughout all generations." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 102:25", "text": "Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 102:26", "text": "They shall perish, but thou wilt endure: yes, all of them shall grow old like a garment; as a vesture wilt thou change them, and they shall be changed:" }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 102:27", "text": "But thou [art] the same, and thy years will have no end." }, { "chapter": 102, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 102:28", "text": "The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 103, "name": "Psalms 103", "verses": [ { "chapter": 103, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 103:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 103:2", "text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:" }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 103:3", "text": "Who forgiveth all thy iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 103:4", "text": "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;" }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 103:5", "text": "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things]; [so that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 103:6", "text": "The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 103:7", "text": "He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 103:8", "text": "The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 103:9", "text": "He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for ever." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 103:10", "text": "He hath not dealt with us according to our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 103:11", "text": "For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy towards them that fear him." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 103:12", "text": "As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 103:13", "text": "Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 103:14", "text": "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 103:15", "text": "[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 103:16", "text": "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 103:17", "text": "But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;" }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 103:18", "text": "To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 103:19", "text": "The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 103:20", "text": "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 103:21", "text": "Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his, that do his pleasure." }, { "chapter": 103, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 103:22", "text": "Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul." } ] }, { "chapter": 104, "name": "Psalms 104", "verses": [ { "chapter": 104, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 104:1", "text": "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 104:2", "text": "Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:" }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 104:3", "text": "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:" }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 104:4", "text": "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:" }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 104:5", "text": "[Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not be removed for ever." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 104:6", "text": "Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 104:7", "text": "At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 104:8", "text": "They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which thou hast founded for them." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 104:9", "text": "Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 104:10", "text": "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, [which] run among the hills." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 104:11", "text": "They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 104:12", "text": "By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, [which] sing among the branches." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 104:13", "text": "He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 104:14", "text": "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;" }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 104:15", "text": "And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man's heart." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 104:16", "text": "The trees of the LORD are full [of sap]; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;" }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 104:17", "text": "Where the birds make their nests: [as for] the stork, the fir-trees [are] her house." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 104:18", "text": "The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the rocks for the conies." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 104:19", "text": "He appointeth the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 104:20", "text": "Thou makest darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth]." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 104:21", "text": "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 104:22", "text": "The sun ariseth, they collect, and lay themselves down in their dens." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 104:23", "text": "Man goeth forth to his work and to his labor until the evening." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 104:24", "text": "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 104:25", "text": "[So is] this great and wide sea, in which [are] creeping animals innumerable, both small and great beasts." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 104:26", "text": "There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [which] thou hast made to play therein." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 104:27", "text": "These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their food in due season." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 104:28", "text": "[That which] thou givest them, they gather: thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 104:29", "text": "Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 104:30", "text": "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 104:31", "text": "The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 104:32", "text": "He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 104:33", "text": "I will sing to the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 104:34", "text": "My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD." }, { "chapter": 104, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 104:35", "text": "Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 105, "name": "Psalms 105", "verses": [ { "chapter": 105, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 105:1", "text": "O give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 105:2", "text": "Sing to him, sing psalms to him: talk ye of all his wondrous works." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 105:3", "text": "Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 105:4", "text": "Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 105:5", "text": "Remember his wonderful works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 105:6", "text": "O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 105:7", "text": "He [is] the LORD our God: his judgments [are] in all the earth." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 105:8", "text": "He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 105:9", "text": "Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 105:10", "text": "And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant:" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 105:11", "text": "Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 105:12", "text": "When they were a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 105:13", "text": "When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom to another people;" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 105:14", "text": "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yes, he reproved kings for their sakes;" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 105:15", "text": "[Saying], Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 105:16", "text": "Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke the whole staff of bread." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 105:17", "text": "He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant:" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 105:18", "text": "Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 105:19", "text": "Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 105:20", "text": "The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people, and let him go free." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 105:21", "text": "He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 105:22", "text": "To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 105:23", "text": "Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 105:24", "text": "And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 105:25", "text": "He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 105:26", "text": "He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 105:27", "text": "They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 105:28", "text": "He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 105:29", "text": "He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 105:30", "text": "Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 105:31", "text": "He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their borders." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 105:32", "text": "He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 105:33", "text": "He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 105:34", "text": "He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number," }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 105:35", "text": "And ate up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 105:36", "text": "He smote also all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 105:37", "text": "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there was] not one feeble [person] among their tribes." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 105:38", "text": "Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 105:39", "text": "He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 105:40", "text": "[The people] asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 105:41", "text": "He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places [like] a river." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 105:42", "text": "For he remembered his holy promise, [and] Abraham his servant." }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 105:43", "text": "And he brought forth his people with joy, [and] his chosen with gladness:" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 44, "name": "Psalms 105:44", "text": "And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people;" }, { "chapter": 105, "verse": 45, "name": "Psalms 105:45", "text": "That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 106, "name": "Psalms 106", "verses": [ { "chapter": 106, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 106:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 106:2", "text": "Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can show forth all his praise?" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 106:3", "text": "Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 106:4", "text": "Remember me, O LORD, with the favor [that thou bearest to] thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 106:5", "text": "That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy inheritance." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 106:6", "text": "We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 106:7", "text": "Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 106:8", "text": "Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 106:9", "text": "He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 106:10", "text": "And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 106:11", "text": "And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 106:12", "text": "Then they believed his words; they sang his praise." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 106:13", "text": "They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 106:14", "text": "But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 106:15", "text": "And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 106:16", "text": "They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 106:17", "text": "The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 106:18", "text": "And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 106:19", "text": "They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 106:20", "text": "Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 106:21", "text": "They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 106:22", "text": "Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 106:23", "text": "Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them]." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 106:24", "text": "Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 106:25", "text": "But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not to the voice of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 106:26", "text": "Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 106:27", "text": "To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 106:28", "text": "They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 106:29", "text": "Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in upon them." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 106:30", "text": "Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 106:31", "text": "And that was counted to him for righteousness to all generations for ever." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 106:32", "text": "They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 106:33", "text": "Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 106:34", "text": "They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 106:35", "text": "But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 106:36", "text": "And they served their idols: which were a snare to them." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 106:37", "text": "Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons," }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 106:38", "text": "And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 106:39", "text": "Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 106:40", "text": "Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 106:41", "text": "And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 106:42", "text": "Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 106:43", "text": "Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel; and were brought low for their iniquity." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 44, "name": "Psalms 106:44", "text": "Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:" }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 45, "name": "Psalms 106:45", "text": "And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 46, "name": "Psalms 106:46", "text": "He made them also to be pitied by all those that carried them captives." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 47, "name": "Psalms 106:47", "text": "Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise." }, { "chapter": 106, "verse": 48, "name": "Psalms 106:48", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 107, "name": "Psalms 107", "verses": [ { "chapter": 107, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 107:1", "text": "O give thanks to the LORD, for [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 107:2", "text": "Let the redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 107:3", "text": "And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 107:4", "text": "They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 107:5", "text": "Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 107:6", "text": "Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 107:7", "text": "And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 107:8", "text": "Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 107:9", "text": "For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 107:10", "text": "Such as sit in darkness and in the shades of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 107:11", "text": "Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High:" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 107:12", "text": "Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and [there was] none to help." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 107:13", "text": "Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 107:14", "text": "He brought them out of darkness and the shades of death, and broke their bands asunder." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 107:15", "text": "Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 107:16", "text": "For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron asunder." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 107:17", "text": "Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 107:18", "text": "Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 107:19", "text": "Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saveth them out of their distresses." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 107:20", "text": "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from their destructions." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 107:21", "text": "Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 107:22", "text": "And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 107:23", "text": "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business on great waters;" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 107:24", "text": "These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 107:25", "text": "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up its waves." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 107:26", "text": "They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 107:27", "text": "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 107:28", "text": "Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 107:29", "text": "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves [of the sea] are still." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 107:30", "text": "Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he bringeth them to their desired haven." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 107:31", "text": "Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 107:32", "text": "Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 107:33", "text": "He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground;" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 107:34", "text": "A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 107:35", "text": "He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water-springs." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 107:36", "text": "And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;" }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 107:37", "text": "And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 107:38", "text": "He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 107:39", "text": "Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 107:40", "text": "He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 107:41", "text": "Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 107:42", "text": "The righteous shall see [it], and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth." }, { "chapter": 107, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 107:43", "text": "Whoever [is] wise, and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 108, "name": "Psalms 108", "verses": [ { "chapter": 108, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 108:1", "text": "A Song [or] Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 108:2", "text": "Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 108:3", "text": "I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to thee among the nations." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 108:4", "text": "For thy mercy [is] great above the heavens: and thy truth [reacheth] to the clouds." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 108:5", "text": "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;" }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 108:6", "text": "That thy beloved may be delivered: save [with] thy right hand, and answer me." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 108:7", "text": "God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 108:8", "text": "Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of my head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;" }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 108:9", "text": "Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 108:10", "text": "Who will bring me into the strong city: who will lead me into Edom?" }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 108:11", "text": "[Wilt] not [thou], O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies?" }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 108:12", "text": "Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man." }, { "chapter": 108, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 108:13", "text": "Through God we shall do valiantly: for he will tread down our enemies." } ] }, { "chapter": 109, "name": "Psalms 109", "verses": [ { "chapter": 109, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 109:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;" }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 109:2", "text": "For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 109:3", "text": "They encompassed me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 109:4", "text": "For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself to] prayer." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 109:5", "text": "And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 109:6", "text": "Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 109:7", "text": "When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 109:8", "text": "Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 109:9", "text": "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 109:10", "text": "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 109:11", "text": "Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labor." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 109:12", "text": "Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 109:13", "text": "Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 109:14", "text": "Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 109:15", "text": "Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 109:16", "text": "Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 109:17", "text": "As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 109:18", "text": "As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 109:19", "text": "Let it be to him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 109:20", "text": "[Let] this [be] the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 109:21", "text": "But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 109:22", "text": "For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 109:23", "text": "I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 109:24", "text": "My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 109:25", "text": "I became also a reproach to them: [when] they looked upon me they shook their heads." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 109:26", "text": "Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:" }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 109:27", "text": "That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD, hast done it." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 109:28", "text": "Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 109:29", "text": "Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 109:30", "text": "I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude." }, { "chapter": 109, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 109:31", "text": "For he will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul." } ] }, { "chapter": 110, "name": "Psalms 110", "verses": [ { "chapter": 110, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 110:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool." }, { "chapter": 110, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 110:2", "text": "The LORD will send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies." }, { "chapter": 110, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 110:3", "text": "Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness: from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth." }, { "chapter": 110, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 110:4", "text": "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek." }, { "chapter": 110, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 110:5", "text": "The Lord at thy right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath." }, { "chapter": 110, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 110:6", "text": "He will judge among the heathen, he will fill [the places] with the dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries." }, { "chapter": 110, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 110:7", "text": "He will drink of the brook in the way: therefore will he lift up the head." } ] }, { "chapter": 111, "name": "Psalms 111", "verses": [ { "chapter": 111, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 111:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with [my] whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and [in] the congregation." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 111:2", "text": "The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out by all them that have pleasure in them." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 111:3", "text": "His work [is] honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 111:4", "text": "He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD [is] gracious and full of compassion." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 111:5", "text": "He hath given food to them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 111:6", "text": "He hath shown his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 111:7", "text": "The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his commandments [are] sure." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 111:8", "text": "They stand fast for ever and ever, [and are] done in truth and uprightness." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 111:9", "text": "He sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend [is] his name." }, { "chapter": 111, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 111:10", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 112, "name": "Psalms 112", "verses": [ { "chapter": 112, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 112:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 112:2", "text": "His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 112:3", "text": "Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 112:4", "text": "To the upright there ariseth light in darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 112:5", "text": "A good man showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 112:6", "text": "Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 112:7", "text": "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 112:8", "text": "His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until he seeth [his desire] upon his enemies." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 112:9", "text": "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor." }, { "chapter": 112, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 112:10", "text": "The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish." } ] }, { "chapter": 113, "name": "Psalms 113", "verses": [ { "chapter": 113, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 113:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 113:2", "text": "Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore." }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 113:3", "text": "From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD'S name [is] to be praised." }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 113:4", "text": "The LORD [is] high above all nations, [and] his glory above the heavens." }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 113:5", "text": "Who [is] like to the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high." }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 113:6", "text": "Who humbleth [himself] to behold [the things that are] in heaven, and in the earth!" }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 113:7", "text": "He raiseth the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;" }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 113:8", "text": "That he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of his people." }, { "chapter": 113, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 113:9", "text": "He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 114, "name": "Psalms 114", "verses": [ { "chapter": 114, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 114:1", "text": "When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a foreign language;" }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 114:2", "text": "Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion." }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 114:3", "text": "The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back." }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 114:4", "text": "The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs." }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 114:5", "text": "What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?" }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 114:6", "text": "Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little hills, like lambs?" }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 114:7", "text": "Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;" }, { "chapter": 114, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 114:8", "text": "Who turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters." } ] }, { "chapter": 115, "name": "Psalms 115", "verses": [ { "chapter": 115, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 115:1", "text": "Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 115:2", "text": "Why should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?" }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 115:3", "text": "But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatever he pleased." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 115:4", "text": "Their idols [are] silver and gold; the work of men's hands." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 115:5", "text": "They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:" }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 115:6", "text": "They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:" }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 115:7", "text": "They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 115:8", "text": "They that make them are like them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 115:9", "text": "O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 115:10", "text": "O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 115:11", "text": "Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 115:12", "text": "The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us]; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 115:13", "text": "He will bless them that fear the LORD, [both] small and great." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 115:14", "text": "The LORD will increase you more and more, you and your children." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 115:15", "text": "Ye [are] blessed of the LORD who made heaven and earth." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 115:16", "text": "The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 115:17", "text": "The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence." }, { "chapter": 115, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 115:18", "text": "But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for ever. Praise the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 116, "name": "Psalms 116", "verses": [ { "chapter": 116, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 116:1", "text": "I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 116:2", "text": "Because he hath inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 116:3", "text": "The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 116:4", "text": "Then I called upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 116:5", "text": "Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God [is] merciful." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 116:6", "text": "The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 116:7", "text": "Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 116:8", "text": "For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 116:9", "text": "I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 116:10", "text": "I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:" }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 116:11", "text": "I said in my haste, All men [are] liars." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 116:12", "text": "What shall I render to the LORD [for] all his benefits towards me?" }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 116:13", "text": "I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 116:14", "text": "I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 116:15", "text": "Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 116:16", "text": "O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I [am] thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 116:17", "text": "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 116:18", "text": "I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people," }, { "chapter": 116, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 116:19", "text": "In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 117, "name": "Psalms 117", "verses": [ { "chapter": 117, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 117:1", "text": "O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people." }, { "chapter": 117, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 117:2", "text": "For his merciful kindness is great towards us: and the truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 118, "name": "Psalms 118", "verses": [ { "chapter": 118, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 118:1", "text": "O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: because his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 118:2", "text": "Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 118:3", "text": "Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 118:4", "text": "Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 118:5", "text": "I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 118:6", "text": "The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me?" }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 118:7", "text": "The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 118:8", "text": "[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 118:9", "text": "[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 118:10", "text": "All nations encompassed me: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 118:11", "text": "They encompassed me; yes, they encompassed me: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 118:12", "text": "They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 118:13", "text": "Thou hast violently thrust at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 118:14", "text": "The LORD [is] my strength and song, and is become my salvation." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 118:15", "text": "The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 118:16", "text": "The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 118:17", "text": "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 118:18", "text": "The LORD hath chastened me severely: but he hath not given me over to death." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 118:19", "text": "Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter them, [and] I will praise the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 118:20", "text": "This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 118:21", "text": "I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 118:22", "text": "The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 118:23", "text": "This is the LORD'S doing; it [is] wonderful in our eyes." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 118:24", "text": "This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 118:25", "text": "Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 118:26", "text": "Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 118:27", "text": "God [is] the LORD, who hath shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, [even] to the horns of the altar." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 118:28", "text": "Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God, I will exalt thee." }, { "chapter": 118, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 118:29", "text": "O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 119, "name": "Psalms 119", "verses": [ { "chapter": 119, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 119:1", "text": "ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 119:2", "text": "Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 119:3", "text": "They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 119:4", "text": "Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 119:5", "text": "O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!" }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 119:6", "text": "Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 119:7", "text": "I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 119:8", "text": "I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 119:9", "text": "BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [to it], according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 119:10", "text": "With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 119:11", "text": "Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 119:12", "text": "Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 119:13", "text": "With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 119:14", "text": "I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 119:15", "text": "I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect to thy ways." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 119:16", "text": "I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 119:17", "text": "GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 119:18", "text": "Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 119:19", "text": "I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 119:20", "text": "My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] to thy judgments at all times." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 119:21", "text": "Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, who do err from thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 119:22", "text": "Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 119:23", "text": "Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 119:24", "text": "Thy testimonies also [are] my delight, [and] my counselors." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 119:25", "text": "DALETH. My soul cleaveth to the dust: revive thou me according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 119:26", "text": "I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 27, "name": "Psalms 119:27", "text": "Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 28, "name": "Psalms 119:28", "text": "My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 29, "name": "Psalms 119:29", "text": "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 30, "name": "Psalms 119:30", "text": "I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me]." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 31, "name": "Psalms 119:31", "text": "I have adhered to thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 32, "name": "Psalms 119:32", "text": "I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 33, "name": "Psalms 119:33", "text": "HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [to] the end." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 34, "name": "Psalms 119:34", "text": "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yes, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 35, "name": "Psalms 119:35", "text": "Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for in that do I delight." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 36, "name": "Psalms 119:36", "text": "Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 37, "name": "Psalms 119:37", "text": "Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; [and] revive thou me in thy way." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 38, "name": "Psalms 119:38", "text": "Establish thy word to thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 39, "name": "Psalms 119:39", "text": "Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 40, "name": "Psalms 119:40", "text": "Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: revive me in thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 41, "name": "Psalms 119:41", "text": "VAU. Let thy mercies come also to me, O LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 42, "name": "Psalms 119:42", "text": "So shall I have with which to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 43, "name": "Psalms 119:43", "text": "And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 44, "name": "Psalms 119:44", "text": "So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 45, "name": "Psalms 119:45", "text": "And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 46, "name": "Psalms 119:46", "text": "I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 47, "name": "Psalms 119:47", "text": "And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 48, "name": "Psalms 119:48", "text": "My hands also will I lift to thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 49, "name": "Psalms 119:49", "text": "ZAIN. Remember the word to thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 50, "name": "Psalms 119:50", "text": "This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath revived me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 51, "name": "Psalms 119:51", "text": "The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] I have not declined from thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 52, "name": "Psalms 119:52", "text": "I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 53, "name": "Psalms 119:53", "text": "Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 54, "name": "Psalms 119:54", "text": "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 55, "name": "Psalms 119:55", "text": "I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 56, "name": "Psalms 119:56", "text": "This I had, because I kept thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 57, "name": "Psalms 119:57", "text": "CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 58, "name": "Psalms 119:58", "text": "I entreated thy favor with [my] whole heart: be merciful to me according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 59, "name": "Psalms 119:59", "text": "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 60, "name": "Psalms 119:60", "text": "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 61, "name": "Psalms 119:61", "text": "The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 62, "name": "Psalms 119:62", "text": "At midnight I will rise to give thanks to thee, because of thy righteous judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 63, "name": "Psalms 119:63", "text": "I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 64, "name": "Psalms 119:64", "text": "The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 65, "name": "Psalms 119:65", "text": "TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 66, "name": "Psalms 119:66", "text": "Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 67, "name": "Psalms 119:67", "text": "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 68, "name": "Psalms 119:68", "text": "Thou [art] good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 69, "name": "Psalms 119:69", "text": "The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 70, "name": "Psalms 119:70", "text": "Their heart is as gross as fat; [but] I delight in thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 71, "name": "Psalms 119:71", "text": "[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 72, "name": "Psalms 119:72", "text": "The law of thy mouth [is] better to me than thousands of gold and silver." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 73, "name": "Psalms 119:73", "text": "JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 74, "name": "Psalms 119:74", "text": "They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 75, "name": "Psalms 119:75", "text": "I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 76, "name": "Psalms 119:76", "text": "Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 77, "name": "Psalms 119:77", "text": "Let thy tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 78, "name": "Psalms 119:78", "text": "Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 79, "name": "Psalms 119:79", "text": "Let those that fear thee turn to me, and those that have known thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 80, "name": "Psalms 119:80", "text": "Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I may not be ashamed." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 81, "name": "Psalms 119:81", "text": "CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 82, "name": "Psalms 119:82", "text": "My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?" }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 83, "name": "Psalms 119:83", "text": "For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] I do not forget thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 84, "name": "Psalms 119:84", "text": "How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?" }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 85, "name": "Psalms 119:85", "text": "The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not according to thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 86, "name": "Psalms 119:86", "text": "All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 87, "name": "Psalms 119:87", "text": "They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 88, "name": "Psalms 119:88", "text": "Revive me after thy loving-kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 89, "name": "Psalms 119:89", "text": "LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 90, "name": "Psalms 119:90", "text": "Thy faithfulness [is] to all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 91, "name": "Psalms 119:91", "text": "They continue this day according to thy ordinances: for all [are] thy servants." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 92, "name": "Psalms 119:92", "text": "Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 93, "name": "Psalms 119:93", "text": "I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast revived me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 94, "name": "Psalms 119:94", "text": "I [am] thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 95, "name": "Psalms 119:95", "text": "The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 96, "name": "Psalms 119:96", "text": "I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 97, "name": "Psalms 119:97", "text": "MEM. O how I love thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 98, "name": "Psalms 119:98", "text": "Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies: for they [are] ever with me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 99, "name": "Psalms 119:99", "text": "I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 100, "name": "Psalms 119:100", "text": "I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 101, "name": "Psalms 119:101", "text": "I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 102, "name": "Psalms 119:102", "text": "I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 103, "name": "Psalms 119:103", "text": "How sweet are thy words to my taste! [yes, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!" }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 104, "name": "Psalms 119:104", "text": "Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 105, "name": "Psalms 119:105", "text": "NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 106, "name": "Psalms 119:106", "text": "I have sworn, and I will perform [it], that I will keep thy righteous judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 107, "name": "Psalms 119:107", "text": "I am afflicted very much: revive me, O LORD, according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 108, "name": "Psalms 119:108", "text": "Accept, I beseech thee, the free-will-offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 109, "name": "Psalms 119:109", "text": "My soul [is] continually in my hand: yet I do not forget thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 110, "name": "Psalms 119:110", "text": "The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 111, "name": "Psalms 119:111", "text": "Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 112, "name": "Psalms 119:112", "text": "I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, [even to] the end." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 113, "name": "Psalms 119:113", "text": "SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 114, "name": "Psalms 119:114", "text": "Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 115, "name": "Psalms 119:115", "text": "Depart from me, ye evil-doers: for I will keep the commandments of my God." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 116, "name": "Psalms 119:116", "text": "Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 117, "name": "Psalms 119:117", "text": "Support me, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to thy statutes continually." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 118, "name": "Psalms 119:118", "text": "Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 119, "name": "Psalms 119:119", "text": "Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 120, "name": "Psalms 119:120", "text": "My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 121, "name": "Psalms 119:121", "text": "AIN. I have done judgment and justice; leave me not to my oppressors." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 122, "name": "Psalms 119:122", "text": "Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 123, "name": "Psalms 119:123", "text": "My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 124, "name": "Psalms 119:124", "text": "Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 125, "name": "Psalms 119:125", "text": "I [am] thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 126, "name": "Psalms 119:126", "text": "[It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 127, "name": "Psalms 119:127", "text": "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 128, "name": "Psalms 119:128", "text": "Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 129, "name": "Psalms 119:129", "text": "PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 130, "name": "Psalms 119:130", "text": "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 131, "name": "Psalms 119:131", "text": "I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 132, "name": "Psalms 119:132", "text": "Look thou upon me, and be merciful to me, as thou usest to do to those that love thy name." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 133, "name": "Psalms 119:133", "text": "Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 134, "name": "Psalms 119:134", "text": "Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 135, "name": "Psalms 119:135", "text": "Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 136, "name": "Psalms 119:136", "text": "Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 137, "name": "Psalms 119:137", "text": "TSADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 138, "name": "Psalms 119:138", "text": "Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous and very faithful." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 139, "name": "Psalms 119:139", "text": "My zeal hath consumed me; because my enemies have forgotten thy words." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 140, "name": "Psalms 119:140", "text": "Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 141, "name": "Psalms 119:141", "text": "I [am] small and despised: [yet] I do not forget thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 142, "name": "Psalms 119:142", "text": "Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 143, "name": "Psalms 119:143", "text": "Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 144, "name": "Psalms 119:144", "text": "The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 145, "name": "Psalms 119:145", "text": "KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 146, "name": "Psalms 119:146", "text": "I cried to thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 147, "name": "Psalms 119:147", "text": "I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 148, "name": "Psalms 119:148", "text": "My eyes anticipated the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 149, "name": "Psalms 119:149", "text": "Hear my voice, according to thy loving-kindness: O LORD, revive me according to thy judgment." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 150, "name": "Psalms 119:150", "text": "They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 151, "name": "Psalms 119:151", "text": "Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 152, "name": "Psalms 119:152", "text": "Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 153, "name": "Psalms 119:153", "text": "RESH. Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 154, "name": "Psalms 119:154", "text": "Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 155, "name": "Psalms 119:155", "text": "Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 156, "name": "Psalms 119:156", "text": "Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to thy judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 157, "name": "Psalms 119:157", "text": "Many [are] my persecutors and my enemies; [yet] I do not decline from thy testimonies." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 158, "name": "Psalms 119:158", "text": "I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 159, "name": "Psalms 119:159", "text": "Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy loving-kindness." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 160, "name": "Psalms 119:160", "text": "Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 161, "name": "Psalms 119:161", "text": "SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 162, "name": "Psalms 119:162", "text": "I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 163, "name": "Psalms 119:163", "text": "I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy law do I love." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 164, "name": "Psalms 119:164", "text": "Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 165, "name": "Psalms 119:165", "text": "Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 166, "name": "Psalms 119:166", "text": "LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and performed thy commandments." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 167, "name": "Psalms 119:167", "text": "My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 168, "name": "Psalms 119:168", "text": "I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways [are] before thee." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 169, "name": "Psalms 119:169", "text": "TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 170, "name": "Psalms 119:170", "text": "Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 171, "name": "Psalms 119:171", "text": "My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 172, "name": "Psalms 119:172", "text": "My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 173, "name": "Psalms 119:173", "text": "Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 174, "name": "Psalms 119:174", "text": "I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 175, "name": "Psalms 119:175", "text": "Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me." }, { "chapter": 119, "verse": 176, "name": "Psalms 119:176", "text": "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments." } ] }, { "chapter": 120, "name": "Psalms 120", "verses": [ { "chapter": 120, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 120:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me." }, { "chapter": 120, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 120:2", "text": "Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue." }, { "chapter": 120, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 120:3", "text": "What shall be given to thee? or what shall be done to thee, thou false tongue?" }, { "chapter": 120, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 120:4", "text": "Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper." }, { "chapter": 120, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 120:5", "text": "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar!" }, { "chapter": 120, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 120:6", "text": "My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace." }, { "chapter": 120, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 120:7", "text": "I [am] for peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war." } ] }, { "chapter": 121, "name": "Psalms 121", "verses": [ { "chapter": 121, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 121:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 121:2", "text": "My help [cometh] from the LORD, who made heaven and earth." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 121:3", "text": "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 121:4", "text": "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 121:5", "text": "The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 121:6", "text": "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 121:7", "text": "The LORD will preserve thee from all evil: he will preserve thy soul." }, { "chapter": 121, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 121:8", "text": "The LORD will preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 122, "name": "Psalms 122", "verses": [ { "chapter": 122, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 122:1", "text": "A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 122:2", "text": "Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 122:3", "text": "Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:" }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 122:4", "text": "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 122:5", "text": "For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 122:6", "text": "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 122:7", "text": "Peace be within thy walls, [and] prosperity within thy palaces." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 122:8", "text": "For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace [be] within thee." }, { "chapter": 122, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 122:9", "text": "Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good." } ] }, { "chapter": 123, "name": "Psalms 123", "verses": [ { "chapter": 123, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 123:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. To thee I raise my eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens." }, { "chapter": 123, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 123:2", "text": "Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] to the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until he shall have mercy upon us." }, { "chapter": 123, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 123:3", "text": "Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt." }, { "chapter": 123, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 123:4", "text": "Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud." } ] }, { "chapter": 124, "name": "Psalms 124", "verses": [ { "chapter": 124, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 124:1", "text": "A Song of degrees of David. If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;" }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 124:2", "text": "If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:" }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 124:3", "text": "Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:" }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 124:4", "text": "Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:" }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 124:5", "text": "Then the proud waters had gone over our soul." }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 124:6", "text": "Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to their teeth." }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 124:7", "text": "Our soul hath escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare [is] broken, and we have escaped." }, { "chapter": 124, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 124:8", "text": "Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth." } ] }, { "chapter": 125, "name": "Psalms 125", "verses": [ { "chapter": 125, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 125:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD, [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever." }, { "chapter": 125, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 125:2", "text": "[As] the mountains [are] round Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] around his people from henceforth even for ever." }, { "chapter": 125, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 125:3", "text": "For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity." }, { "chapter": 125, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 125:4", "text": "Do good, O LORD, to [those that] are good, and to [them that are] upright in their hearts." }, { "chapter": 125, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 125:5", "text": "As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 126, "name": "Psalms 126", "verses": [ { "chapter": 126, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 126:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream." }, { "chapter": 126, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 126:2", "text": "Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them." }, { "chapter": 126, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 126:3", "text": "The LORD hath done great things for us; [of which] we are glad." }, { "chapter": 126, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 126:4", "text": "Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south." }, { "chapter": 126, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 126:5", "text": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." }, { "chapter": 126, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 126:6", "text": "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him]." } ] }, { "chapter": 127, "name": "Psalms 127", "verses": [ { "chapter": 127, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 127:1", "text": "A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD shall build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD shall keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain." }, { "chapter": 127, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 127:2", "text": "[It is] vain for you to rise early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep." }, { "chapter": 127, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 127:3", "text": "Lo, children [are] a heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward." }, { "chapter": 127, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 127:4", "text": "As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man: so [are] children of the youth." }, { "chapter": 127, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 127:5", "text": "Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." } ] }, { "chapter": 128, "name": "Psalms 128", "verses": [ { "chapter": 128, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 128:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways." }, { "chapter": 128, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 128:2", "text": "For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy [shalt] thou be, and [it shall be] well with thee." }, { "chapter": 128, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 128:3", "text": "Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around thy table." }, { "chapter": 128, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 128:4", "text": "Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD." }, { "chapter": 128, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 128:5", "text": "The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life." }, { "chapter": 128, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 128:6", "text": "Yes, thou shalt see thy children's children, [and] peace upon Israel." } ] }, { "chapter": 129, "name": "Psalms 129", "verses": [ { "chapter": 129, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 129:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:" }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 129:2", "text": "Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me." }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 129:3", "text": "The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows." }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 129:4", "text": "The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 129:5", "text": "Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion." }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 129:6", "text": "Let them be as the grass [upon] the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:" }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 129:7", "text": "With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom." }, { "chapter": 129, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 129:8", "text": "Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 130, "name": "Psalms 130", "verses": [ { "chapter": 130, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 130:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 130:2", "text": "Lord, hear my voice: let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications." }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 130:3", "text": "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 130:4", "text": "But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 130:5", "text": "I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope." }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 130:6", "text": "My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: [I say], [more than] they that watch for the morning." }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 130:7", "text": "Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption." }, { "chapter": 130, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 130:8", "text": "And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities." } ] }, { "chapter": 131, "name": "Psalms 131", "verses": [ { "chapter": 131, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 131:1", "text": "A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart [is] not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." }, { "chapter": 131, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 131:2", "text": "Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned by his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child." }, { "chapter": 131, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 131:3", "text": "Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 132, "name": "Psalms 132", "verses": [ { "chapter": 132, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 132:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David [and] all his afflictions;" }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 132:2", "text": "How he swore to the LORD, [and] vowed to the mighty [God] of Jacob;" }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 132:3", "text": "Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;" }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 132:4", "text": "I will not give sleep to my eyes, [or] slumber to my eyelids," }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 132:5", "text": "Until I find a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty [God] of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 132:6", "text": "Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 132:7", "text": "We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 132:8", "text": "Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 132:9", "text": "Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 132:10", "text": "For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thy anointed." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 132:11", "text": "The LORD hath sworn [in] truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 132:12", "text": "If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 132:13", "text": "For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his habitation." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 132:14", "text": "This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 132:15", "text": "I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 132:16", "text": "I will also clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 132:17", "text": "There will I make the horn of David to bud, I have ordained a lamp for my anointed." }, { "chapter": 132, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 132:18", "text": "His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish." } ] }, { "chapter": 133, "name": "Psalms 133", "verses": [ { "chapter": 133, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 133:1", "text": "A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity!" }, { "chapter": 133, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 133:2", "text": "[It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garment;" }, { "chapter": 133, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 133:3", "text": "As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 134, "name": "Psalms 134", "verses": [ { "chapter": 134, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 134:1", "text": "A Song of degrees. Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 134, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 134:2", "text": "Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD." }, { "chapter": 134, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 134:3", "text": "The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion." } ] }, { "chapter": 135, "name": "Psalms 135", "verses": [ { "chapter": 135, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 135:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise [him], O ye servants of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 135:2", "text": "Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God," }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 135:3", "text": "Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good; sing praises to his name; for [it is] pleasant." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 135:4", "text": "For the LORD hath chosen Jacob to himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 135:5", "text": "For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is] above all gods." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 135:6", "text": "Whatever the LORD pleased, [that] did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 135:7", "text": "He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 135:8", "text": "Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 135:9", "text": "[Who] sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 135:10", "text": "Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;" }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 135:11", "text": "Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:" }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 135:12", "text": "And gave their land [for] a heritage, a heritage to Israel his people." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 135:13", "text": "Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for ever; [and] thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 135:14", "text": "For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent concerning his servants." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 135:15", "text": "The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 135:16", "text": "They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 135:17", "text": "They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 135:18", "text": "They that make them are like them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 135:19", "text": "Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:" }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 135:20", "text": "Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD." }, { "chapter": 135, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 135:21", "text": "Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 136, "name": "Psalms 136", "verses": [ { "chapter": 136, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 136:1", "text": "O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 136:2", "text": "O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 136:3", "text": "O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 136:4", "text": "To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 136:5", "text": "To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 136:6", "text": "To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 136:7", "text": "To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 136:8", "text": "The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 136:9", "text": "The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 136:10", "text": "To him that smote Egypt in their first-born: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 136:11", "text": "And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 136:12", "text": "With a strong hand, and with an out-stretched arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 136:13", "text": "To him who divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 136:14", "text": "And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 136:15", "text": "But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red sea: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 136:16", "text": "To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 136:17", "text": "To him who smote great kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 136:18", "text": "And slew famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 136:19", "text": "Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 136:20", "text": "And Og king of Bashan: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 136:21", "text": "And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 136:22", "text": "[Even] a heritage to Israel his servant: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 136:23", "text": "Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:" }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 136:24", "text": "And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 25, "name": "Psalms 136:25", "text": "Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." }, { "chapter": 136, "verse": 26, "name": "Psalms 136:26", "text": "O give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 137, "name": "Psalms 137", "verses": [ { "chapter": 137, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 137:1", "text": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 137:2", "text": "We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 137:3", "text": "For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 137:4", "text": "How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?" }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 137:5", "text": "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her skill]." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 137:6", "text": "If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 137:7", "text": "Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze [it], raze [it], [even] to its foundation." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 137:8", "text": "O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us." }, { "chapter": 137, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 137:9", "text": "Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." } ] }, { "chapter": 138, "name": "Psalms 138", "verses": [ { "chapter": 138, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 138:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to thee." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 138:2", "text": "I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 138:3", "text": "In the day when I cried thou didst answer me, [and] strengthen me [with] strength in my soul." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 138:4", "text": "All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 138:5", "text": "Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is] the glory of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 138:6", "text": "Though the LORD [is] high, yet hath he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 138:7", "text": "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand will save me." }, { "chapter": 138, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 138:8", "text": "The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works thy own hands." } ] }, { "chapter": 139, "name": "Psalms 139", "verses": [ { "chapter": 139, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 139:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me]." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 139:2", "text": "Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 139:3", "text": "Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 139:4", "text": "For [there is] not a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 139:5", "text": "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 139:6", "text": "[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] to it." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 139:7", "text": "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 139:8", "text": "If I ascend into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there]." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 139:9", "text": "[If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;" }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 139:10", "text": "Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 139:11", "text": "If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 139:12", "text": "Yes, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee]." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 139:13", "text": "For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 139:14", "text": "I will praise thee: for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: wonderful [are] thy works; and [that] my soul well knoweth." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 139:15", "text": "My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, [and] curiously formed in the lowest parts of the earth." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 139:16", "text": "Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 139:17", "text": "How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!" }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 139:18", "text": "[If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 139:19", "text": "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 139:20", "text": "For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thy enemies take [thy name] in vain." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 139:21", "text": "Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?" }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 22, "name": "Psalms 139:22", "text": "I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies." }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 23, "name": "Psalms 139:23", "text": "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:" }, { "chapter": 139, "verse": 24, "name": "Psalms 139:24", "text": "And see if [there is any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." } ] }, { "chapter": 140, "name": "Psalms 140", "verses": [ { "chapter": 140, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 140:1", "text": "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;" }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 140:2", "text": "Who imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they assembled [for] war." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 140:3", "text": "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison [is] under their lips. Selah." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 140:4", "text": "Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 140:5", "text": "The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 140:6", "text": "I said to the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 140:7", "text": "O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 140:8", "text": "Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 140:9", "text": "[As for] the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 140:10", "text": "Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not again." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 140:11", "text": "Let not an evil speaker be established on the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him]." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 140:12", "text": "I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, [and] the right of the poor." }, { "chapter": 140, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 140:13", "text": "Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence." } ] }, { "chapter": 141, "name": "Psalms 141", "verses": [ { "chapter": 141, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 141:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry to thee: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to thee." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 141:2", "text": "Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 141:3", "text": "Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 141:4", "text": "Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 141:5", "text": "Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 141:6", "text": "When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 141:7", "text": "Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 141:8", "text": "But my eyes [are] to thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 141:9", "text": "Keep me from the snare [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity." }, { "chapter": 141, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 141:10", "text": "Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst I escape." } ] }, { "chapter": 142, "name": "Psalms 142", "verses": [ { "chapter": 142, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 142:1", "text": "Maschil of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD I made my supplication." }, { "chapter": 142, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 142:2", "text": "I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble." }, { "chapter": 142, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 142:3", "text": "When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me." }, { "chapter": 142, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 142:4", "text": "I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul." }, { "chapter": 142, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 142:5", "text": "I cried to thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living." }, { "chapter": 142, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 142:6", "text": "Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I." }, { "chapter": 142, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 142:7", "text": "Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall encompass me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me." } ] }, { "chapter": 143, "name": "Psalms 143", "verses": [ { "chapter": 143, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 143:1", "text": "A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 143:2", "text": "And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 143:3", "text": "For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 143:4", "text": "Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 143:5", "text": "I remember the days of old, I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 143:6", "text": "I stretch forth my hands to thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 143:7", "text": "Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 143:8", "text": "Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul to thee." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 143:9", "text": "Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to thee to hide me." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 143:10", "text": "Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 143:11", "text": "Revive me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble." }, { "chapter": 143, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 143:12", "text": "And of thy mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I [am] thy servant." } ] }, { "chapter": 144, "name": "Psalms 144", "verses": [ { "chapter": 144, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 144:1", "text": "[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight;" }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 144:2", "text": "My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 144:3", "text": "LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!" }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 144:4", "text": "Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 144:5", "text": "Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 144:6", "text": "Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 144:7", "text": "Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;" }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 144:8", "text": "Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 144:9", "text": "I will sing a new song to thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 144:10", "text": "[It is he] that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 144:11", "text": "Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:" }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 144:12", "text": "That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace:" }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 144:13", "text": "[That] our granaries [may be] full, affording all manner of store; [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:" }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 144:14", "text": "[That] our oxen [may be] strong to labor; that [there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets." }, { "chapter": 144, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 144:15", "text": "Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yes], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 145, "name": "Psalms 145", "verses": [ { "chapter": 145, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 145:1", "text": "David's [Psalm] of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 145:2", "text": "Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 145:3", "text": "Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness [is] unsearchable." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 145:4", "text": "One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 145:5", "text": "I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 145:6", "text": "And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 145:7", "text": "They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 145:8", "text": "The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 145:9", "text": "The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his works." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 145:10", "text": "All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 145:11", "text": "They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;" }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 145:12", "text": "To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 145:13", "text": "Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion [endureth] throughout all generations." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 145:14", "text": "The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all [those that are] bowed down." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 145:15", "text": "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in due season." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 145:16", "text": "Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living creature." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 145:17", "text": "The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 145:18", "text": "The LORD [is] nigh to all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 145:19", "text": "He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 145:20", "text": "The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy." }, { "chapter": 145, "verse": 21, "name": "Psalms 145:21", "text": "My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever." } ] }, { "chapter": 146, "name": "Psalms 146", "verses": [ { "chapter": 146, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 146:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul." }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 146:2", "text": "While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being." }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 146:3", "text": "Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help." }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 146:4", "text": "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 146:5", "text": "Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God:" }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 146:6", "text": "Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them: who keepeth truth for ever:" }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 146:7", "text": "Who executeth judgment for the oppressed: who giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:" }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 146:8", "text": "The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:" }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 146:9", "text": "The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down." }, { "chapter": 146, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 146:10", "text": "The LORD will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 147, "name": "Psalms 147", "verses": [ { "chapter": 147, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 147:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises to our God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 147:2", "text": "The LORD buildeth up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 147:3", "text": "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 147:4", "text": "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 147:5", "text": "Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is] infinite." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 147:6", "text": "The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 147:7", "text": "Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp to our God:" }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 147:8", "text": "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 147:9", "text": "He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 147:10", "text": "He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 147:11", "text": "The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 147:12", "text": "Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 147:13", "text": "For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 147:14", "text": "He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the finest of the wheat." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 15, "name": "Psalms 147:15", "text": "He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word runneth very swiftly." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 16, "name": "Psalms 147:16", "text": "He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 17, "name": "Psalms 147:17", "text": "He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?" }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 18, "name": "Psalms 147:18", "text": "He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, [and] the waters flow." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 19, "name": "Psalms 147:19", "text": "He showeth his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel." }, { "chapter": 147, "verse": 20, "name": "Psalms 147:20", "text": "He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 148, "name": "Psalms 148", "verses": [ { "chapter": 148, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 148:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the hights." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 148:2", "text": "Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 148:3", "text": "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 148:4", "text": "Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [are] above the heavens." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 148:5", "text": "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 148:6", "text": "He hath also established them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 148:7", "text": "Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:" }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 148:8", "text": "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:" }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 148:9", "text": "Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:" }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 10, "name": "Psalms 148:10", "text": "Beasts, and all cattle; creeping animals, and flying fowl:" }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 11, "name": "Psalms 148:11", "text": "Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:" }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 12, "name": "Psalms 148:12", "text": "Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:" }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 13, "name": "Psalms 148:13", "text": "Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven." }, { "chapter": 148, "verse": 14, "name": "Psalms 148:14", "text": "He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; [even] of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 149, "name": "Psalms 149", "verses": [ { "chapter": 149, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 149:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, [and] his praise in the congregation of saints." }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 149:2", "text": "Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King." }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 149:3", "text": "Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp:" }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 149:4", "text": "For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation." }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 149:5", "text": "Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds." }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 149:6", "text": "[Let] the high [praises] of God [be] in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;" }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 7, "name": "Psalms 149:7", "text": "To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;" }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 8, "name": "Psalms 149:8", "text": "To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;" }, { "chapter": 149, "verse": 9, "name": "Psalms 149:9", "text": "To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 150, "name": "Psalms 150", "verses": [ { "chapter": 150, "verse": 1, "name": "Psalms 150:1", "text": "Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power." }, { "chapter": 150, "verse": 2, "name": "Psalms 150:2", "text": "Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness." }, { "chapter": 150, "verse": 3, "name": "Psalms 150:3", "text": "Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp." }, { "chapter": 150, "verse": 4, "name": "Psalms 150:4", "text": "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs." }, { "chapter": 150, "verse": 5, "name": "Psalms 150:5", "text": "Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals." }, { "chapter": 150, "verse": 6, "name": "Psalms 150:6", "text": "Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 20, "name": "Proverbs", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Proverbs 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 1:1", "text": "The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 1:2", "text": "To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 1:3", "text": "To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 1:4", "text": "To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 1:5", "text": "A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 1:6", "text": "To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 1:7", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 1:8", "text": "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 1:9", "text": "For they [shalt be] an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 1:10", "text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 1:11", "text": "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 1:12", "text": "Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 1:13", "text": "We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 1:14", "text": "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 1:15", "text": "My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 1:16", "text": "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 1:17", "text": "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 1:18", "text": "And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 1:19", "text": "So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [who] taketh away the life of its owners." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 1:20", "text": "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 1:21", "text": "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying]," }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 1:22", "text": "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 1:23", "text": "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 1:24", "text": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 1:25", "text": "But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 1:26", "text": "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 1:27", "text": "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 1:28", "text": "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 1:29", "text": "For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 1:30", "text": "They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 1:31", "text": "Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 1:32", "text": "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 1:33", "text": "But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Proverbs 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 2:1", "text": "My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 2:2", "text": "So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, [and] apply thy heart to understanding;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 2:3", "text": "Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 2:4", "text": "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 2:5", "text": "Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 2:6", "text": "For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 2:7", "text": "He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 2:8", "text": "He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 2:9", "text": "Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [and] every good path." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 2:10", "text": "When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 2:11", "text": "Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 2:12", "text": "To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 2:13", "text": "Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 2:14", "text": "Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 2:15", "text": "Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 2:16", "text": "To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [who] flattereth with her words;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 2:17", "text": "Who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 2:18", "text": "For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 2:19", "text": "None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 2:20", "text": "That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 2:21", "text": "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 2:22", "text": "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Proverbs 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 3:1", "text": "My son, forget not my law; but let thy heart keep my commandments;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 3:2", "text": "For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 3:3", "text": "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 3:4", "text": "So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 3:5", "text": "Trust in the LORD with all thy heart; and lean not to thy own understanding." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 3:6", "text": "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 3:7", "text": "Be not wise in thy own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 3:8", "text": "It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 3:9", "text": "Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 3:10", "text": "So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 3:11", "text": "My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 3:12", "text": "For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 3:13", "text": "Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 3:14", "text": "For the merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain of it than fine gold." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 3:15", "text": "She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 3:16", "text": "Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honor." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 3:17", "text": "Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 3:18", "text": "She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 3:19", "text": "The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 3:20", "text": "By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 3:21", "text": "My son, let not them depart from thy eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 3:22", "text": "So shall they be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 3:23", "text": "Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 3:24", "text": "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: but thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 3:25", "text": "Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 3:26", "text": "For the LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 3:27", "text": "Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do [it]." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 3:28", "text": "Say not to thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 3:29", "text": "Devise not evil against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 3:30", "text": "Strive not with a man without cause, if he hath done thee no harm." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 3:31", "text": "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 3:32", "text": "For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 3:33", "text": "The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "name": "Proverbs 3:34", "text": "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace to the lowly." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "name": "Proverbs 3:35", "text": "The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Proverbs 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 4:1", "text": "Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 4:2", "text": "For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 4:3", "text": "For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 4:4", "text": "He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 4:5", "text": "Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 4:6", "text": "Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 4:7", "text": "Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 4:8", "text": "Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 4:9", "text": "She shall give to thy head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 4:10", "text": "Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 4:11", "text": "I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 4:12", "text": "When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 4:13", "text": "Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 4:14", "text": "Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 4:15", "text": "Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 4:16", "text": "For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 4:17", "text": "For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 4:18", "text": "But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more to the perfect day." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 4:19", "text": "The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 4:20", "text": "My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 4:21", "text": "Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 4:22", "text": "For they [are] life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 4:23", "text": "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 4:24", "text": "Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 4:25", "text": "Let thy eyes look right on, and let thy eyelids look straight before thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 4:26", "text": "Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 4:27", "text": "Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Proverbs 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 5:1", "text": "My son, attend to my wisdom, [and] bow thy ear to my understanding:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 5:2", "text": "That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 5:3", "text": "For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] a honey-comb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 5:4", "text": "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 5:5", "text": "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 5:6", "text": "Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, [that] thou canst not know [them]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 5:7", "text": "Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 5:8", "text": "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 5:9", "text": "Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy years to the cruel:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 5:10", "text": "Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors [be] in the house of a stranger;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 5:11", "text": "And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed," }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 5:12", "text": "And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 5:13", "text": "And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 5:14", "text": "I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 5:15", "text": "Drink waters out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 5:16", "text": "Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 5:17", "text": "Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 5:18", "text": "Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 5:19", "text": "[Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 5:20", "text": "And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 5:21", "text": "For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 5:22", "text": "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 5:23", "text": "He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Proverbs 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 6:1", "text": "My son, if thou art surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 6:2", "text": "Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 6:3", "text": "Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 6:4", "text": "Give not sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 6:5", "text": "Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 6:6", "text": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 6:7", "text": "Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 6:8", "text": "Provideth her provisions in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 6:9", "text": "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 6:10", "text": "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 6:11", "text": "So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 6:12", "text": "A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 6:13", "text": "He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 6:14", "text": "Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 6:15", "text": "Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 6:16", "text": "These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yes, seven [are] an abomination to him:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 6:17", "text": "A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 6:18", "text": "A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief," }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 6:19", "text": "A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 6:20", "text": "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 6:21", "text": "Bind them continually upon thy heart, [and] tie them about thy neck." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 6:22", "text": "When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 6:23", "text": "For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 6:24", "text": "To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 6:25", "text": "Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 6:26", "text": "For by means of a lewd woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 6:27", "text": "Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 6:28", "text": "Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 6:29", "text": "So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 6:30", "text": "[Men] do not despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 6:31", "text": "But [if] he is found, he shall restore seven-fold; he shall give all the substance of his house." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 6:32", "text": "[But] whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 6:33", "text": "A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "name": "Proverbs 6:34", "text": "For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "name": "Proverbs 6:35", "text": "He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Proverbs 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 7:1", "text": "My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 7:2", "text": "Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 7:3", "text": "Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 7:4", "text": "Say to wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 7:5", "text": "That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 7:6", "text": "For at the window of my house I looked through my casement," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 7:7", "text": "And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 7:8", "text": "Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 7:9", "text": "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 7:10", "text": "And behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 7:11", "text": "(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 7:12", "text": "Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 7:13", "text": "So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said to him," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 7:14", "text": "[I have] peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 7:15", "text": "Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 7:16", "text": "I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 7:17", "text": "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 7:18", "text": "Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 7:19", "text": "For the good-man [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 7:20", "text": "He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 7:21", "text": "With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 7:22", "text": "He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 7:23", "text": "Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 7:24", "text": "Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 7:25", "text": "Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 7:26", "text": "For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong [men] have been slain by her." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 7:27", "text": "Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Proverbs 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 8:1", "text": "Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 8:2", "text": "She standeth on the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 8:3", "text": "She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 8:4", "text": "To you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 8:5", "text": "O ye simple, understand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 8:6", "text": "Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips [shall be] right things." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 8:7", "text": "For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 8:8", "text": "All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 8:9", "text": "They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 8:10", "text": "Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 8:11", "text": "For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 8:12", "text": "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of ingenious inventions." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 8:13", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 8:14", "text": "Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 8:15", "text": "By me kings reign, and princes decree justice." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 8:16", "text": "By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 8:17", "text": "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 8:18", "text": "Riches and honor [are] with me; durable riches and righteousness." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 8:19", "text": "My fruit [is] better than gold, yes, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 8:20", "text": "I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 8:21", "text": "That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 8:22", "text": "The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 8:23", "text": "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 8:24", "text": "When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding with water." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 8:25", "text": "Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 8:26", "text": "While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 8:27", "text": "When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 8:28", "text": "When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 8:29", "text": "When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 8:30", "text": "Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 8:31", "text": "Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 8:32", "text": "Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 8:33", "text": "Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "name": "Proverbs 8:34", "text": "Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "name": "Proverbs 8:35", "text": "For whoever findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "name": "Proverbs 8:36", "text": "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Proverbs 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 9:1", "text": "Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 9:2", "text": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 9:3", "text": "She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 9:4", "text": "Whoever [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 9:5", "text": "Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 9:6", "text": "Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 9:7", "text": "He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 9:8", "text": "Reprove not a scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 9:9", "text": "Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 9:10", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 9:11", "text": "For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 9:12", "text": "If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it]." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 9:13", "text": "A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 9:14", "text": "For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 9:15", "text": "To call passengers who go right on their ways:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 9:16", "text": "Whoever [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 9:17", "text": "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 9:18", "text": "But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Proverbs 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 10:1", "text": "The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 10:2", "text": "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 10:3", "text": "The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 10:4", "text": "He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 10:5", "text": "He that gathereth in summer [is] a wise son: [but] he that sleepeth in harvest [is] a son that causeth shame." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 10:6", "text": "Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 10:7", "text": "The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall perish." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 10:8", "text": "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 10:9", "text": "He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 10:10", "text": "He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 10:11", "text": "The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 10:12", "text": "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 10:13", "text": "In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for the back of him that is void of understanding." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 10:14", "text": "Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 10:15", "text": "The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 10:16", "text": "The labor of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 10:17", "text": "He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 10:18", "text": "He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 10:19", "text": "In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that restraineth his lips [is] wise." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 10:20", "text": "The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 10:21", "text": "The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 10:22", "text": "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 10:23", "text": "[It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 10:24", "text": "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 10:25", "text": "As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no [more]: but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 10:26", "text": "As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so [is] the sluggard to them that send him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 10:27", "text": "The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 10:28", "text": "The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 10:29", "text": "The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 10:30", "text": "The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 10:31", "text": "The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 10:32", "text": "The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Proverbs 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 11:1", "text": "A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 11:2", "text": "[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 11:3", "text": "The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 11:4", "text": "Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 11:5", "text": "The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 11:6", "text": "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 11:7", "text": "When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 11:8", "text": "The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 11:9", "text": "A hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 11:10", "text": "When the righteous prosper, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 11:11", "text": "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 11:12", "text": "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 11:13", "text": "A tale-bearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 11:14", "text": "Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors [there is] safety." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 11:15", "text": "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it]: and he that hateth suretiship is sure." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 11:16", "text": "A gracious woman retaineth honor: and strong [men] retain riches." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 11:17", "text": "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 11:18", "text": "The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 11:19", "text": "As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 11:20", "text": "They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 11:21", "text": "[Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 11:22", "text": "[As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman who is without discretion." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 11:23", "text": "The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 11:24", "text": "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 11:25", "text": "The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 11:26", "text": "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing [shall be] upon the head of him that selleth [it]." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 11:27", "text": "He that diligently seeketh good procureth favor: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come to him." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 11:28", "text": "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 11:29", "text": "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 11:30", "text": "The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that winneth souls [is] wise." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 11:31", "text": "Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Proverbs 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 12:1", "text": "Whoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 12:2", "text": "A good [man] obtaineth favor from the LORD: but a man of wicked devices he will condemn." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 12:3", "text": "A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 12:4", "text": "A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 12:5", "text": "The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 12:6", "text": "The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 12:7", "text": "The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 12:8", "text": "A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 12:9", "text": "[He that is] despised, and hath a servant, [is] better than he that honoreth himself, and is destitute of bread." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 12:10", "text": "A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 12:11", "text": "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 12:12", "text": "The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit]." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 12:13", "text": "The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 12:14", "text": "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered to him." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 12:15", "text": "The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel [is] wise." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 12:16", "text": "A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 12:17", "text": "[He that] speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness: but a false witness, deceit." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 12:18", "text": "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 12:19", "text": "The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 12:20", "text": "Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace [is] joy." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 12:21", "text": "There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 12:22", "text": "Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 12:23", "text": "A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 12:24", "text": "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 12:25", "text": "Heaviness in the heart of man depresseth it: but a good word maketh it glad." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 12:26", "text": "The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduceth them." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 12:27", "text": "The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 12:28", "text": "In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the path [of it there is] no death." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Proverbs 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 13:1", "text": "A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 13:2", "text": "A man shall eat good by the fruit of [his] mouth: but the soul of the transgressors [shall eat] violence." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 13:3", "text": "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 13:4", "text": "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 13:5", "text": "A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is lothsome, and cometh to shame." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 13:6", "text": "Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 13:7", "text": "There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 13:8", "text": "The ransom of a man's life [is] his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 13:9", "text": "The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be extinguished." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 13:10", "text": "Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well-advised [is] wisdom." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 13:11", "text": "Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 13:12", "text": "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 13:13", "text": "Whoever despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 13:14", "text": "The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 13:15", "text": "Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors [is] hard." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 13:16", "text": "Every prudent [man] dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 13:17", "text": "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful embassador [is] health." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 13:18", "text": "Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 13:19", "text": "The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 13:20", "text": "He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 13:21", "text": "Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 13:22", "text": "A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 13:23", "text": "Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 13:24", "text": "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 13:25", "text": "The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Proverbs 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 14:1", "text": "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 14:2", "text": "He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 14:3", "text": "In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 14:4", "text": "Where no oxen [are], the crib [is] clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 14:5", "text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 14:6", "text": "A scorner seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not: but knowledge [is] easy to him that understandeth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 14:7", "text": "Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 14:8", "text": "The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 14:9", "text": "Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favor." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 14:10", "text": "The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 14:11", "text": "The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 14:12", "text": "There is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the end of it [are] the ways of death." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 14:13", "text": "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 14:14", "text": "The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 14:15", "text": "The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 14:16", "text": "A wise [man] feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 14:17", "text": "[He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 14:18", "text": "The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 14:19", "text": "The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 14:20", "text": "The poor is hated even by his own neighbor: but the rich [hath] many friends." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 14:21", "text": "He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy [is] he." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 14:22", "text": "Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth [shall be] to them that devise good." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 14:23", "text": "In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 14:24", "text": "The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 14:25", "text": "A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 14:26", "text": "In the fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 14:27", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 14:28", "text": "In the multitude of people [is] the king's honor: but in the want of people [is] the destruction of the prince." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 14:29", "text": "[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 14:30", "text": "A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 14:31", "text": "He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 14:32", "text": "The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 14:33", "text": "Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] in the midst of fools is made known." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "name": "Proverbs 14:34", "text": "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "name": "Proverbs 14:35", "text": "The king's favor [is] towards a wise servant: but his wrath is [against] him that causeth shame." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Proverbs 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 15:1", "text": "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 15:2", "text": "The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 15:3", "text": "The eyes of the LORD [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 15:4", "text": "A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness in it [is] a breach in the spirit." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 15:5", "text": "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 15:6", "text": "In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 15:7", "text": "The lips of the wise diffuse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 15:8", "text": "The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 15:9", "text": "The way of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD; but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 15:10", "text": "Correction [is] grievous to him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that hateth reproof shall die." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 15:11", "text": "Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 15:12", "text": "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go to the wise." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 15:13", "text": "A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 15:14", "text": "The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 15:15", "text": "All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 15:16", "text": "Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 15:17", "text": "Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 15:18", "text": "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 15:19", "text": "The way of the slothful [man is] as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 15:20", "text": "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 15:21", "text": "Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 15:22", "text": "Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 15:23", "text": "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [it is]!" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 15:24", "text": "The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 15:25", "text": "The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 15:26", "text": "The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 15:27", "text": "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 15:28", "text": "The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 15:29", "text": "The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 15:30", "text": "The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; [and] a good report maketh the bones fat." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 15:31", "text": "The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 15:32", "text": "He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 15:33", "text": "The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom: and before honor is humility." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Proverbs 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 16:1", "text": "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [are] from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 16:2", "text": "All the ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 16:3", "text": "Commit thy works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 16:4", "text": "The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yes, even the wicked for the day of evil." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 16:5", "text": "Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 16:6", "text": "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 16:7", "text": "When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 16:8", "text": "Better [is] a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 16:9", "text": "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 16:10", "text": "A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 16:11", "text": "A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 16:12", "text": "[It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 16:13", "text": "Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 16:14", "text": "The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 16:15", "text": "In the light of a king's countenance [is] life; and his favor [is] as a cloud of the latter rain." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 16:16", "text": "How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?" }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 16:17", "text": "The highway of the upright [is] to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 16:18", "text": "Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 16:19", "text": "Better [it is to be] of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 16:20", "text": "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoever trusteth in the LORD, happy [is] he." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 16:21", "text": "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 16:22", "text": "Understanding [is] a well-spring of life to him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 16:23", "text": "The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 16:24", "text": "Pleasant words [are as] a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 16:25", "text": "There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end of it [is] the ways of death." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 16:26", "text": "He that laboreth laboreth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 16:27", "text": "An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 16:28", "text": "A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 16:29", "text": "A violent man enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 16:30", "text": "He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 16:31", "text": "The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 16:32", "text": "[He that is] slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 16:33", "text": "The lot is cast into the lap: but the whole disposing of it [is] from the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Proverbs 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 17:1", "text": "Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices [with] strife." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 17:2", "text": "A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 17:3", "text": "The fining-pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 17:4", "text": "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips: [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 17:5", "text": "He that mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; [and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 17:6", "text": "Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [is] their fathers." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 17:7", "text": "Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 17:8", "text": "A gift [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 17:9", "text": "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth [very] friends." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 17:10", "text": "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 17:11", "text": "An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 17:12", "text": "Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 17:13", "text": "Whoever rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 17:14", "text": "The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore withdraw from contention, before it be meddled with." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 17:15", "text": "He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 17:16", "text": "Why [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 17:17", "text": "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 17:18", "text": "A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 17:19", "text": "He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 17:20", "text": "He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 17:21", "text": "He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 17:22", "text": "A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 17:23", "text": "A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 17:24", "text": "Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 17:25", "text": "A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 17:26", "text": "Also to punish the just [is] not good, [nor] to strike princes for equity." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 17:27", "text": "He that hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 17:28", "text": "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Proverbs 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 18:1", "text": "Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 18:2", "text": "A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may reveal itself." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 18:3", "text": "When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 18:4", "text": "The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep waters, [and] the well-spring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 18:5", "text": "[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 18:6", "text": "A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 18:7", "text": "A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 18:8", "text": "The words of a tale-bearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 18:9", "text": "He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 18:10", "text": "The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 18:11", "text": "The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 18:12", "text": "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 18:13", "text": "He that answereth a matter before he heareth [it], it [is] folly and shame to him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 18:14", "text": "The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 18:15", "text": "The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 18:16", "text": "A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 18:17", "text": "[He that is] first in his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbor cometh and searcheth him." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 18:18", "text": "The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 18:19", "text": "A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city: and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 18:20", "text": "A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 18:21", "text": "Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 18:22", "text": "[Whoever] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favor from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 18:23", "text": "The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 18:24", "text": "A man [that hath] friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Proverbs 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 19:1", "text": "Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 19:2", "text": "Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 19:3", "text": "The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 19:4", "text": "Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 19:5", "text": "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 19:6", "text": "Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man [is] a friend to him that giveth gifts." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 19:7", "text": "All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them with] words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to him]." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 19:8", "text": "He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 19:9", "text": "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 19:10", "text": "Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 19:11", "text": "The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 19:12", "text": "The king's wrath [is] as the roaring of a lion; but his favor [is] as dew upon the grass." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 19:13", "text": "A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 19:14", "text": "House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 19:15", "text": "Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 19:16", "text": "He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 19:17", "text": "He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth to the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 19:18", "text": "Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 19:19", "text": "A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 19:20", "text": "Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 19:21", "text": "[There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 19:22", "text": "The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 19:23", "text": "The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 19:24", "text": "A slothful [man] hideth his hand in [his] bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 19:25", "text": "Smite a scorner and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 19:26", "text": "He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 19:27", "text": "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 19:28", "text": "An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 19:29", "text": "Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Proverbs 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 20:1", "text": "Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 20:2", "text": "The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoever] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 20:3", "text": "[It is] an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 20:4", "text": "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 20:5", "text": "Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 20:6", "text": "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 20:7", "text": "The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 20:8", "text": "A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 20:9", "text": "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 20:10", "text": "Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 20:11", "text": "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [is] pure, and whether [it is] right." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 20:12", "text": "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 20:13", "text": "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 20:14", "text": "[It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, then he boasteth." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 20:15", "text": "There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 20:16", "text": "Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 20:17", "text": "Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 20:18", "text": "[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 20:19", "text": "He that goeth about [as] a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 20:20", "text": "Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 20:21", "text": "An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 20:22", "text": "Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 20:23", "text": "Divers weights [are] an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 20:24", "text": "Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 20:25", "text": "[It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make inquiry." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 20:26", "text": "A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 20:27", "text": "The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 20:28", "text": "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 20:29", "text": "The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 20:30", "text": "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly." } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Proverbs 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 21:1", "text": "The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 21:2", "text": "Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 21:3", "text": "To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 21:4", "text": "A high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 21:5", "text": "The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 21:6", "text": "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro by them that seek death." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 21:7", "text": "The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 21:8", "text": "The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 21:9", "text": "[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 21:10", "text": "The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 21:11", "text": "When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 21:12", "text": "The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 21:13", "text": "Whoever stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 21:14", "text": "A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 21:15", "text": "[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 21:16", "text": "The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 21:17", "text": "He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 21:18", "text": "The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 21:19", "text": "[It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 21:20", "text": "[There is] a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 21:21", "text": "He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honor." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 21:22", "text": "A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of its confidence." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 21:23", "text": "Whoever keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 21:24", "text": "Proud [and] haughty scorner [is] his name, who dealeth in proud wrath." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 21:25", "text": "The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labor." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 21:26", "text": "He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 21:27", "text": "The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 21:28", "text": "A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 21:29", "text": "A wicked man hardeneth his face: but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 21:30", "text": "[There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 21:31", "text": "The horse [is] prepared against the day of battle: but safety [is] from the LORD." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Proverbs 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 22:1", "text": "A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favor rather than silver and gold." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 22:2", "text": "The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 22:3", "text": "A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 22:4", "text": "By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honor, and life." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 22:5", "text": "Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 22:6", "text": "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 22:7", "text": "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 22:8", "text": "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 22:9", "text": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 22:10", "text": "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall end; yes, strife and reproach shall cease." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 22:11", "text": "He that loveth pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips the king [shall be] his friend." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 22:12", "text": "The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 22:13", "text": "The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 22:14", "text": "The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 22:15", "text": "Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 22:16", "text": "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches], [and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 22:17", "text": "Bow down thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 22:18", "text": "For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 22:19", "text": "That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 22:20", "text": "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 22:21", "text": "That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send to thee?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 22:22", "text": "Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 22:23", "text": "For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 22:24", "text": "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 22:25", "text": "Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 22:26", "text": "Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 22:27", "text": "If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 22:28", "text": "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 22:29", "text": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men]." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Proverbs 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 23:1", "text": "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 23:2", "text": "And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [art] a man given to appetite." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 23:3", "text": "Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful food." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 23:4", "text": "Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 23:5", "text": "Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 23:6", "text": "Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 23:7", "text": "For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 23:8", "text": "The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 23:9", "text": "Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 23:10", "text": "Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 23:11", "text": "For their redeemer [is] mighty; he will plead their cause with thee." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 23:12", "text": "Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 23:13", "text": "Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 23:14", "text": "Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 23:15", "text": "My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 23:16", "text": "Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 23:17", "text": "Let not thy heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 23:18", "text": "For surely there is an end; and thy expectation shall not be cut off." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 23:19", "text": "Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 23:20", "text": "Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 23:21", "text": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 23:22", "text": "Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 23:23", "text": "Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 23:24", "text": "The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 23:25", "text": "Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 23:26", "text": "My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 23:27", "text": "For a lewd woman [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 23:28", "text": "She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 23:29", "text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 23:30", "text": "They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 23:31", "text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 23:32", "text": "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 23:33", "text": "Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "name": "Proverbs 23:34", "text": "And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "name": "Proverbs 23:35", "text": "They have stricken me, [wilt thou say], [and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Proverbs 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 24:1", "text": "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 24:2", "text": "For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 24:3", "text": "Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 24:4", "text": "And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 24:5", "text": "A wise man [is] strong; and a man of knowledge increaseth strength." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 24:6", "text": "For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counselors [there is] safety." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 24:7", "text": "Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 24:8", "text": "He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 24:9", "text": "The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 24:10", "text": "[If] thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 24:11", "text": "If thou forbearest to deliver [them that are] drawn to death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 24:12", "text": "If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and will [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 24:13", "text": "My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honey-comb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 24:14", "text": "So [shall] the knowledge of wisdom [be] to thy soul: when thou hast found [it], then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 24:15", "text": "Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; destroy not his resting-place:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 24:16", "text": "For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 24:17", "text": "Rejoice not when thy enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 24:18", "text": "Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 24:19", "text": "Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 24:20", "text": "For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be extinguished." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 24:21", "text": "My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: [and] meddle not with them that are given to change:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 24:22", "text": "For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 24:23", "text": "These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 24:24", "text": "He that saith to the wicked, Thou [art] righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 24:25", "text": "But to them that rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 24:26", "text": "[Every man] shall kiss [his] lips that giveth a right answer." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 24:27", "text": "Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 24:28", "text": "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 24:29", "text": "Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 24:30", "text": "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 24:31", "text": "And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 24:32", "text": "Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it], [and] received instruction." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 24:33", "text": "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:" }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 34, "name": "Proverbs 24:34", "text": "So shall thy poverty come [as] one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed man." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Proverbs 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 25:1", "text": "These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 25:2", "text": "[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings [is] to search out a matter." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 25:3", "text": "The heaven for hight, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 25:4", "text": "Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 25:5", "text": "Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 25:6", "text": "Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great [men]:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 25:7", "text": "For better [it is] that it be said to thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thy eyes have seen." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 25:8", "text": "Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 25:9", "text": "Debate thy cause with thy neighbor [himself]; and reveal not a secret to another:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 25:10", "text": "Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thy infamy turn not away." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 25:11", "text": "A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 25:12", "text": "[As] an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 25:13", "text": "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 25:14", "text": "Whoever boasteth himself of a false gift [is like] clouds and wind without rain." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 25:15", "text": "By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 25:16", "text": "Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 25:17", "text": "Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 25:18", "text": "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor [is] a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 25:19", "text": "Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 25:20", "text": "[As] he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre; so [is] he that singeth songs to a heavy heart." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 25:21", "text": "If thy enemy shall hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he shall thirst, give him water to drink:" }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 25:22", "text": "For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 25:23", "text": "The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 25:24", "text": "[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 25:25", "text": "[As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so [is] good news from a far country." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 25:26", "text": "A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a turbid fountain, and a corrupt spring." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 25:27", "text": "[It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 25:28", "text": "He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Proverbs 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 26:1", "text": "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest; so honor is not seemly for a fool." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 26:2", "text": "As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 26:3", "text": "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 26:4", "text": "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 26:5", "text": "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 26:6", "text": "He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 26:7", "text": "The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 26:8", "text": "As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so [is] he that giveth honor to a fool." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 26:9", "text": "[As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 26:10", "text": "The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 26:11", "text": "As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 26:12", "text": "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 26:13", "text": "The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 26:14", "text": "[As] the door turneth upon its hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 26:15", "text": "The slothful hideth [his] hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 26:16", "text": "The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 26:17", "text": "He that passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 26:18", "text": "As a mad [man] who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death," }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 26:19", "text": "So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 26:20", "text": "Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 26:21", "text": "[As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 26:22", "text": "The words of a tale-bearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 26:23", "text": "Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 26:24", "text": "He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 26:25", "text": "When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his heart." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 26:26", "text": "[Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the [whole] congregation." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 26:27", "text": "Whoever diggeth a pit shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 26:28", "text": "A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Proverbs 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 27:1", "text": "Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 27:2", "text": "Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy own lips." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 27:3", "text": "A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than both." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 27:4", "text": "Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 27:5", "text": "Open rebuke [is] better than secret love." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 27:6", "text": "Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 27:7", "text": "The full soul lotheth a honey-comb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 27:8", "text": "As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 27:9", "text": "Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 27:10", "text": "Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbor [that is] near, than a brother far off." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 27:11", "text": "My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 27:12", "text": "A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 27:13", "text": "Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 27:14", "text": "He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 27:15", "text": "A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 27:16", "text": "Whoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand [which] bewrayeth [itself]." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 27:17", "text": "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 27:18", "text": "He that keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit of it: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 27:19", "text": "As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 27:20", "text": "Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 27:21", "text": "[As] the fining-pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 27:22", "text": "Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] his foolishness will not depart from him." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 27:23", "text": "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 27:24", "text": "For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 27:25", "text": "The plant appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 27:26", "text": "The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 27:27", "text": "And [thou shalt have] goats milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] maintenance for thy maidens." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Proverbs 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 28:1", "text": "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 28:2", "text": "For the transgression of a land many [are] its princes: but by a man of understanding [and] knowledge the state [thereof] shall be prolonged." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 28:3", "text": "A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 28:4", "text": "They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 28:5", "text": "Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 28:6", "text": "Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [is] rich." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 28:7", "text": "He who keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 28:8", "text": "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 28:9", "text": "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 28:10", "text": "Whoever causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 28:11", "text": "The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor man that hath understanding searcheth him out." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 28:12", "text": "When righteous [men] rejoice, [there is] great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 28:13", "text": "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but he who confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 28:14", "text": "Happy [is] the man that feareth always: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 28:15", "text": "[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 28:16", "text": "The prince that wanteth understanding [is] also a great oppressor: [but] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 28:17", "text": "A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 28:18", "text": "He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways shall fall at once." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 28:19", "text": "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 28:20", "text": "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 28:21", "text": "To have respect of persons [is] not good: for, for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 28:22", "text": "He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 28:23", "text": "He that rebuketh a man afterward shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 28:24", "text": "He that robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, [It is] no transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 28:25", "text": "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 28:26", "text": "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 28:27", "text": "He that giveth to the poor shall not want: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 28:28", "text": "When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Proverbs 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 29:1", "text": "He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 29:2", "text": "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 29:3", "text": "He that loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 29:4", "text": "The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 29:5", "text": "A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 29:6", "text": "In the transgression of an evil man [there is] a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 29:7", "text": "The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but] the wicked regardeth not to know [it]." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 29:8", "text": "Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 29:9", "text": "[If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rageth or laugheth, [there is] no rest." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 29:10", "text": "The blood-thirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 29:11", "text": "A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 29:12", "text": "If a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants [are] wicked." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 29:13", "text": "The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD enlighteneth both their eyes." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 29:14", "text": "The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 29:15", "text": "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 29:16", "text": "When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 29:17", "text": "Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yes, he shall give delight to thy soul." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 29:18", "text": "Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 29:19", "text": "A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understandeth, he will not answer." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 29:20", "text": "Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 29:21", "text": "He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him at length become [his] son." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 29:22", "text": "An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 29:23", "text": "A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 29:24", "text": "Whoever is partner with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and discloseth [it] not." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 29:25", "text": "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but he who putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 29:26", "text": "Many seek the ruler's favor; but [every] man's judgment [cometh] from the LORD." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 29:27", "text": "An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Proverbs 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 30:1", "text": "The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spoke to Ithiel, even to Ithiel and Ucal," }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 30:2", "text": "Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 30:3", "text": "I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 30:4", "text": "Who hath ascended into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 30:5", "text": "Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield to them that put their trust in him." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 30:6", "text": "Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 30:7", "text": "Two [things] have I required of thee; deny [them] not to me before I die:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 30:8", "text": "Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 30:9", "text": "Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 30:10", "text": "Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 30:11", "text": "[There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 30:12", "text": "[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 30:13", "text": "[There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 30:14", "text": "[There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw-teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 30:15", "text": "The horse-leech hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yes], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 30:16", "text": "The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 30:17", "text": "The eye [that] mocketh at [its] father, and despiseth to obey [its] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 30:18", "text": "There are three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I know not:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 30:19", "text": "The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 30:20", "text": "Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 30:21", "text": "For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 30:22", "text": "For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 30:23", "text": "For an odious [woman] when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 30:24", "text": "There are four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] very wise:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 30:25", "text": "The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 30:26", "text": "The conies [are but] a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 30:27", "text": "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 30:28", "text": "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 30:29", "text": "There are three [things] which go well, yes, four are comely in going:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 30:30", "text": "A lion, [which is] strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 30:31", "text": "A greyhound; a he-goat also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "name": "Proverbs 30:32", "text": "If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thy hand upon thy mouth." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "name": "Proverbs 30:33", "text": "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Proverbs 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Proverbs 31:1", "text": "The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Proverbs 31:2", "text": "What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Proverbs 31:3", "text": "Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Proverbs 31:4", "text": "[It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Proverbs 31:5", "text": "Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Proverbs 31:6", "text": "Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that are of heavy hearts." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Proverbs 31:7", "text": "Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Proverbs 31:8", "text": "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Proverbs 31:9", "text": "Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "name": "Proverbs 31:10", "text": "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "name": "Proverbs 31:11", "text": "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "name": "Proverbs 31:12", "text": "She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "name": "Proverbs 31:13", "text": "She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "name": "Proverbs 31:14", "text": "She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "name": "Proverbs 31:15", "text": "She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a portion to her maidens." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "name": "Proverbs 31:16", "text": "She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "name": "Proverbs 31:17", "text": "She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "name": "Proverbs 31:18", "text": "She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "name": "Proverbs 31:19", "text": "She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "name": "Proverbs 31:20", "text": "She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yes, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "name": "Proverbs 31:21", "text": "She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "name": "Proverbs 31:22", "text": "She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "name": "Proverbs 31:23", "text": "Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "name": "Proverbs 31:24", "text": "She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles to the merchant." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "name": "Proverbs 31:25", "text": "Strength and honor [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "name": "Proverbs 31:26", "text": "She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue [is] the law of kindness." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "name": "Proverbs 31:27", "text": "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "name": "Proverbs 31:28", "text": "Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "name": "Proverbs 31:29", "text": "Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "name": "Proverbs 31:30", "text": "Favor [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "name": "Proverbs 31:31", "text": "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 21, "name": "Ecclesiastes", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:1", "text": "The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:2", "text": "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:3", "text": "What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:4", "text": "[One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:5", "text": "The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:6", "text": "The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:7", "text": "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:8", "text": "All things [are] full of labor; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:9", "text": "The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:10", "text": "Is there [any] thing of which it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:11", "text": "[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:12", "text": "I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:13", "text": "And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this grievous labor hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised with it." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:14", "text": "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:15", "text": "[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:16", "text": "I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to great estate, and have gained more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:17", "text": "And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 1:18", "text": "For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:1", "text": "I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:2", "text": "I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:3", "text": "I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:4", "text": "I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:5", "text": "I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:6", "text": "I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:7", "text": "I procured [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:8", "text": "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces: I procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:9", "text": "So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:10", "text": "And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:11", "text": "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:12", "text": "And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:13", "text": "Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:14", "text": "The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:15", "text": "Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:16", "text": "For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:17", "text": "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous to me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:18", "text": "Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:19", "text": "And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:20", "text": "Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:21", "text": "For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored in it, shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:22", "text": "For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:23", "text": "For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:24", "text": "[There is] nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:25", "text": "For who can eat, or who else can hasten [to it] more than I?" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "name": "Ecclesiastes 2:26", "text": "For [God] giveth to a man who [is] good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:1", "text": "To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:2", "text": "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:3", "text": "A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:4", "text": "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:5", "text": "A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:6", "text": "A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:7", "text": "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:8", "text": "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:9", "text": "What profit hath he that worketh in that in which he laboreth?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:10", "text": "I have seen the labor, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:11", "text": "He hath made every [thing] beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:12", "text": "I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:13", "text": "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it [is] the gift of God." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:14", "text": "I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:15", "text": "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:16", "text": "And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:17", "text": "I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:18", "text": "I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:19", "text": "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:20", "text": "All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:21", "text": "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Ecclesiastes 3:22", "text": "Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?" } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:1", "text": "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:2", "text": "Wherefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:3", "text": "Yes, better is [he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:4", "text": "Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:5", "text": "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:6", "text": "Better [is] a handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] toil and vexation of spirit." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:7", "text": "Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:8", "text": "There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yes, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yes, it [is] a grievous labor." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:9", "text": "Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:10", "text": "For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him to rise." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:11", "text": "Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:12", "text": "And if one prevaileth against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:13", "text": "Better [is] a poor and a wise child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:14", "text": "For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also [he that is] born in his kingdom becometh poor." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:15", "text": "I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 4:16", "text": "[There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:1", "text": "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:2", "text": "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:3", "text": "For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by a multitude of words." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:4", "text": "When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:5", "text": "Better [is it] that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:6", "text": "Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:7", "text": "For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:8", "text": "If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there are] higher than they." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:9", "text": "Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:10", "text": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:11", "text": "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners of them, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:12", "text": "The sleep of a laboring man [is] sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:13", "text": "There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:14", "text": "But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:15", "text": "As he came into the world, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:16", "text": "And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:17", "text": "All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:18", "text": "Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:19", "text": "Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this [is] the gift of God." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Ecclesiastes 5:20", "text": "For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:1", "text": "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:2", "text": "A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:3", "text": "If a man begetteth a hundred [children], and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also [that] he hath no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:4", "text": "For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:5", "text": "Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:6", "text": "Yes, though he liveth a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:7", "text": "All the labor of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:8", "text": "For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:9", "text": "Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:10", "text": "That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:11", "text": "Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 6:12", "text": "For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?" } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:1", "text": "A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:2", "text": "[It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:3", "text": "Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:4", "text": "The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:5", "text": "[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:6", "text": "For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:7", "text": "Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:8", "text": "Better [is] the end of a thing than its beginning: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:9", "text": "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:10", "text": "Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:11", "text": "Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:12", "text": "For wisdom [is] a defense, [and] money [is] a defense: but the excellence of knowledge [is], [that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:13", "text": "Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:14", "text": "In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:15", "text": "All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:16", "text": "Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldst thou destroy thyself?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:17", "text": "Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldst thou die before thy time?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:18", "text": "[It is] good that thou shouldst take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from them all." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:19", "text": "Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty [men] who are in the city." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:20", "text": "For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:21", "text": "Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:22", "text": "For often also thy own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:23", "text": "All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:24", "text": "That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:25", "text": "I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:26", "text": "And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoever pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:27", "text": "Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:28", "text": "Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "name": "Ecclesiastes 7:29", "text": "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:1", "text": "Who [is] as the wise [man]? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:2", "text": "I [counsel thee] to keep the king's commandment, and [that] in regard of the oath of God." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:3", "text": "Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:4", "text": "Where the word of a king [is], [there is] power: and who may say to him, what doest thou?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:5", "text": "He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:6", "text": "Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:7", "text": "For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:8", "text": "[There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:9", "text": "All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:10", "text": "And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:11", "text": "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:12", "text": "Though a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and his [days] are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:13", "text": "But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:14", "text": "There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:15", "text": "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:16", "text": "When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 8:17", "text": "Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man may labor to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yes further; though a wise [man] thinketh to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it]." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:1", "text": "For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:2", "text": "All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:3", "text": "This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:4", "text": "For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:5", "text": "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:6", "text": "Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, hath now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:7", "text": "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:8", "text": "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:9", "text": "Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labor which thou takest under the sun." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:10", "text": "Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:11", "text": "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:12", "text": "For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:13", "text": "This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] to me great:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:14", "text": "[There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:15", "text": "Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:16", "text": "Then said I, wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:17", "text": "The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 9:18", "text": "Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:1", "text": "Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth an offensive odor: [so doth] a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom [and] honor." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:2", "text": "A wise man's heart [is] at his right hand; but a fool's heart [is] at his left." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:3", "text": "Also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him], and he saith to every one [that] he [is] a fool." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:4", "text": "If the spirit of the ruler riseth against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offenses." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:5", "text": "There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as an error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:6", "text": "Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:7", "text": "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:8", "text": "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:9", "text": "Whoever removeth stones shall be hurt by them; [and] he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered by it." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:10", "text": "If the iron is blunt, and he doth not whet the edge, then must he use more strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to direct." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:11", "text": "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:12", "text": "The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:13", "text": "The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of his talk [is] mischievous madness." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:14", "text": "A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:15", "text": "The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:16", "text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:17", "text": "Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy king [is] the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:18", "text": "By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:19", "text": "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all [things]." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Ecclesiastes 10:20", "text": "Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:1", "text": "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:2", "text": "Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:3", "text": "If the clouds are full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree falleth towards the south, or towards the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:4", "text": "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:5", "text": "As thou knowest not what [is] the way of the spirit, [nor] the structure of the parts of conception in her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:6", "text": "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both [shall be] alike good." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:7", "text": "Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:8", "text": "But if a man shall live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:9", "text": "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 11:10", "text": "Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:1", "text": "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:2", "text": "While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:3", "text": "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened," }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:4", "text": "And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding shall be low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:5", "text": "Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:" }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:6", "text": "Or ever the silver cord shall be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:7", "text": "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:8", "text": "Vanity of vanities saith the preacher; all [is] vanity." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:9", "text": "And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge: yes, he gave good heed, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:10", "text": "The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and [that which was] written [was] upright, [even] words of truth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:11", "text": "The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one shepherd." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:12", "text": "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:13", "text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "name": "Ecclesiastes 12:14", "text": "For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it is] good, or whether [it is] evil." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 22, "name": "Song of Songs", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 1:1", "text": "The song of songs, which [is] Solomon's." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 1:2", "text": "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 1:3", "text": "Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 1:4", "text": "Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 1:5", "text": "I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 1:6", "text": "Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] my own vineyard have I not kept." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 1:7", "text": "Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 1:8", "text": "If thou knowest not, O thou fairest among women, go forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 1:9", "text": "I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 1:10", "text": "Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels], thy neck with chains [of gold]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 1:11", "text": "We will make for thee borders of gold with studs of silver." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 1:12", "text": "While the king [sitteth] at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth its smell." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 1:13", "text": "A bundle of myrrh [is] my well beloved to me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Song of Songs 1:14", "text": "My beloved [is] to me [as] a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of En-gedi." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Song of Songs 1:15", "text": "Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Song of Songs 1:16", "text": "Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed [is] green." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Song of Songs 1:17", "text": "The beams of our house [are] cedar, [and] our rafters of fir." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 2:1", "text": "I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 2:2", "text": "As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 2:3", "text": "As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 2:4", "text": "He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 2:5", "text": "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick with love." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 2:6", "text": "His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 2:7", "text": "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not, nor awake [my] love, till he please." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 2:8", "text": "The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 2:9", "text": "My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 2:10", "text": "My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise, my love, my fair one, and come away." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 2:11", "text": "For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 2:12", "text": "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 2:13", "text": "The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Song of Songs 2:14", "text": "O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Song of Songs 2:15", "text": "Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Song of Songs 2:16", "text": "My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Song of Songs 2:17", "text": "Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 3:1", "text": "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 3:2", "text": "I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 3:3", "text": "The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 3:4", "text": "[It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 3:5", "text": "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 3:6", "text": "Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 3:7", "text": "Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; sixty valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 3:8", "text": "They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 3:9", "text": "King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 3:10", "text": "He made its pillars [of] silver, the bottom of it [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst of it being paved [with] love, for the daughters of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 3:11", "text": "Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 4:1", "text": "Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 4:2", "text": "Thy teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep that are even] shorn, which came up from the washing; all of which bear twins, and none [is] barren among them." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 4:3", "text": "Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of pomegranate within thy locks." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 4:4", "text": "Thy neck [is] like the tower of David built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 4:5", "text": "Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 4:6", "text": "Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, I will repair to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 4:7", "text": "Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 4:8", "text": "Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 4:9", "text": "Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy eyes, with one chain of thy neck." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 4:10", "text": "How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 4:11", "text": "Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honey-comb; honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments [is] like the smell of Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 4:12", "text": "A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 4:13", "text": "Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphor, with spikenard," }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "name": "Song of Songs 4:14", "text": "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "name": "Song of Songs 4:15", "text": "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "name": "Song of Songs 4:16", "text": "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 5:1", "text": "I have come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh, with my spice; I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey; I have drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 5:2", "text": "I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 5:3", "text": "I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 5:4", "text": "My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door], and my bowels were moved for him." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 5:5", "text": "I rose up to open to my beloved: and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 5:6", "text": "I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 5:7", "text": "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 5:8", "text": "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick with love." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 5:9", "text": "What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 5:10", "text": "My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 5:11", "text": "His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 5:12", "text": "His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 5:13", "text": "His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Song of Songs 5:14", "text": "His hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Song of Songs 5:15", "text": "His legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Song of Songs 5:16", "text": "His mouth [is] most sweet: yes, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 6:1", "text": "Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 6:2", "text": "My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 6:3", "text": "I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 6:4", "text": "Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 6:5", "text": "Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 6:6", "text": "Thy teeth [are] as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, of which every one beareth twins, and [there is] not one barren among them." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 6:7", "text": "As a piece of pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 6:8", "text": "There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 6:9", "text": "My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yes], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 6:10", "text": "Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army] with banners?" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 6:11", "text": "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the pomegranates budded." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 6:12", "text": "Or ere I was aware, my soul made me [like] the chariots of Amminadib." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 6:13", "text": "Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 7:1", "text": "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 7:2", "text": "Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] a heap of wheat set about with lilies." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 7:3", "text": "Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 7:4", "text": "Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thy eyes [like] the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose [is] as the tower of Lebanon which looketh towards Damascus." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 7:5", "text": "Thy head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 7:6", "text": "How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 7:7", "text": "This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes]." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 7:8", "text": "I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its boughs: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 7:9", "text": "And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 7:10", "text": "I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] towards me." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 7:11", "text": "Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 7:12", "text": "Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourisheth, [whether] the tender grape appeareth, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 7:13", "text": "The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates [are] all manner of pleasant [fruits], new and old, [which] I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Song of Songs 8:1", "text": "O that thou [wert] as my brother, that was nourished at the breasts of my mother! [when] I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yes, I should not be despised." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Song of Songs 8:2", "text": "I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, [who] would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Song of Songs 8:3", "text": "His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Song of Songs 8:4", "text": "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not, nor awake [my] love, until he please." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Song of Songs 8:5", "text": "Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple-tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth [that] bore thee." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Song of Songs 8:6", "text": "Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals of it [are] coals of fire, [which hath] a most vehement flame." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Song of Songs 8:7", "text": "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Song of Songs 8:8", "text": "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Song of Songs 8:9", "text": "If she [is] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [is] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Song of Songs 8:10", "text": "I [am] a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Song of Songs 8:11", "text": "Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Song of Songs 8:12", "text": "My vineyard which [is] mine, [is] before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and those that keep the fruit of it two hundred." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Song of Songs 8:13", "text": "Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it]." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Song of Songs 8:14", "text": "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices." } ] } ] }, { "nr": 23, "name": "Isaiah", "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "name": "Isaiah 1", "verses": [ { "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 1:1", "text": "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 1:2", "text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 1:3", "text": "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 1:4", "text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 1:5", "text": "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 1:6", "text": "From the sole of the foot even to the head [there is] no soundness in [it]; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 1:7", "text": "Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 1:8", "text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 1:9", "text": "Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom; we should have been like Gomorrah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 1:10", "text": "Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 1:11", "text": "To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 1:12", "text": "When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 1:13", "text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 1:14", "text": "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear [them]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 1:15", "text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 1:16", "text": "Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 1:17", "text": "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 1:18", "text": "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 1:19", "text": "If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 1:20", "text": "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it]." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 1:21", "text": "How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 1:22", "text": "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 1:23", "text": "Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 1:24", "text": "Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 1:25", "text": "And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:" }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 1:26", "text": "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 1:27", "text": "Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 1:28", "text": "And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 1:29", "text": "For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "name": "Isaiah 1:30", "text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water." }, { "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "name": "Isaiah 1:31", "text": "And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them]." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "name": "Isaiah 2", "verses": [ { "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 2:1", "text": "The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 2:2", "text": "And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mount of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 2:3", "text": "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 2:4", "text": "And he will judge among the nations, and will rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 2:5", "text": "O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 2:6", "text": "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and [are] sooth-sayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 2:7", "text": "Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 2:8", "text": "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 2:9", "text": "And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 2:10", "text": "Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 2:11", "text": "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 2:12", "text": "For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low:" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 2:13", "text": "And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 2:14", "text": "And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 2:15", "text": "And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall," }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 2:16", "text": "And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 2:17", "text": "And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 2:18", "text": "And the idols he will utterly abolish." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 2:19", "text": "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 2:20", "text": "In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;" }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 2:21", "text": "To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." }, { "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 2:22", "text": "Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "name": "Isaiah 3", "verses": [ { "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 3:1", "text": "For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 3:2", "text": "The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 3:3", "text": "The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skillful artificer, and the eloquent orator." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 3:4", "text": "And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 3:5", "text": "And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 3:6", "text": "When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 3:7", "text": "In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 3:8", "text": "For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings [are] against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 3:9", "text": "The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 3:10", "text": "Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 3:11", "text": "Woe to the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 3:12", "text": "[As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 3:13", "text": "The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 3:14", "text": "The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 3:15", "text": "What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 3:16", "text": "Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with extended necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:" }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 3:17", "text": "Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover their secret parts." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 3:18", "text": "In that day the Lord will take away the show of [their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their] cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 3:19", "text": "The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 3:20", "text": "The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 3:21", "text": "The rings, and nose-jewels," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 3:22", "text": "The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins," }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 3:23", "text": "The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 3:24", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be an offensive odor; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 3:25", "text": "Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war." }, { "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 3:26", "text": "And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate, shall sit upon the ground." } ] }, { "chapter": 4, "name": "Isaiah 4", "verses": [ { "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 4:1", "text": "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 4:2", "text": "In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and comely for them that have escaped of Israel." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 4:3", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:" }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 4:4", "text": "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 4:5", "text": "And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory [shall be] a defense." }, { "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 4:6", "text": "And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain." } ] }, { "chapter": 5, "name": "Isaiah 5", "verses": [ { "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 5:1", "text": "Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 5:2", "text": "And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 5:3", "text": "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 5:4", "text": "What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected that it would bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 5:5", "text": "And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 5:6", "text": "And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 5:7", "text": "For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 5:8", "text": "Woe to them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there is] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 5:9", "text": "In my ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 5:10", "text": "Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 5:11", "text": "Woe to them that rise early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflameth them!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 5:12", "text": "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 5:13", "text": "Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honorable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 5:14", "text": "Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 5:15", "text": "And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 5:16", "text": "But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 5:17", "text": "Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 5:18", "text": "Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 5:19", "text": "That say, Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 5:20", "text": "Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 5:21", "text": "Woe to [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 5:22", "text": "Woe to [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 5:23", "text": "Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 5:24", "text": "Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 5:25", "text": "Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcasses [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 5:26", "text": "And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 5:27", "text": "None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 5:28", "text": "Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:" }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 5:29", "text": "Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it]." }, { "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "name": "Isaiah 5:30", "text": "And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] looketh to the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens." } ] }, { "chapter": 6, "name": "Isaiah 6", "verses": [ { "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 6:1", "text": "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and elevated, and his train filled the temple." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 6:2", "text": "Above it stood seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 6:3", "text": "And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 6:4", "text": "And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 6:5", "text": "Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 6:6", "text": "Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 6:7", "text": "And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 6:8", "text": "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 6:9", "text": "And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 6:10", "text": "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 6:11", "text": "Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;" }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 6:12", "text": "And the LORD shall have removed men far away, and [there be] a great forsaking in the midst of the land." }, { "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 6:13", "text": "But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves]: [so] the holy seed [shall be] the substance of it." } ] }, { "chapter": 7, "name": "Isaiah 7", "verses": [ { "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 7:1", "text": "And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up towards Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 7:2", "text": "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 7:3", "text": "Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 7:4", "text": "And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking fire-brands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 7:5", "text": "Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 7:6", "text": "Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of Tabeal:" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 7:7", "text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 7:8", "text": "For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 7:9", "text": "And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 7:10", "text": "Moreover, the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying," }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 7:11", "text": "Ask thee a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the hight above." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 7:12", "text": "But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 7:13", "text": "And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David? [Is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 7:14", "text": "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 7:15", "text": "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 7:16", "text": "For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 7:17", "text": "The LORD will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 7:18", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD will hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 7:19", "text": "And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 7:20", "text": "In the same day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 7:21", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;" }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 7:22", "text": "And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 7:23", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 7:24", "text": "With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns." }, { "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 7:25", "text": "And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle." } ] }, { "chapter": 8, "name": "Isaiah 8", "verses": [ { "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 8:1", "text": "Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 8:2", "text": "And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 8:3", "text": "And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 8:4", "text": "For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 8:5", "text": "The LORD spoke also to me again, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 8:6", "text": "Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 8:7", "text": "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 8:8", "text": "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the extension of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 8:9", "text": "Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 8:10", "text": "Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 8:11", "text": "For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying," }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 8:12", "text": "Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 8:13", "text": "Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be] your fear, and [let] him [be] your dread." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 8:14", "text": "And he will be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 8:15", "text": "And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be insnared, and be taken." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 8:16", "text": "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 8:17", "text": "And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 8:18", "text": "Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 8:19", "text": "And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? for the living to the dead?" }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 8:20", "text": "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 8:21", "text": "And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward." }, { "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 8:22", "text": "And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness." } ] }, { "chapter": 9, "name": "Isaiah 9", "verses": [ { "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 9:1", "text": "Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her distress, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 9:2", "text": "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shades of death, upon them hath the light shined." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 9:3", "text": "Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 9:4", "text": "For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 9:5", "text": "For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be with burning [and] fuel of fire." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 9:6", "text": "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 9:7", "text": "Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 9:8", "text": "The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 9:9", "text": "And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart," }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 9:10", "text": "The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 9:11", "text": "Therefore the LORD will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 9:12", "text": "The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 9:13", "text": "For the people turn not to him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 9:14", "text": "Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 9:15", "text": "The ancient and honorable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 9:16", "text": "For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led by them [are] destroyed." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 9:17", "text": "Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, neither will have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one [is] a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 9:18", "text": "For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the rising of smoke." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 9:19", "text": "Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother." }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 9:20", "text": "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:" }, { "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 9:21", "text": "Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still." } ] }, { "chapter": 10, "name": "Isaiah 10", "verses": [ { "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 10:1", "text": "Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 10:2", "text": "To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 10:3", "text": "And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 10:4", "text": "Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 10:5", "text": "O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 10:6", "text": "I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 10:7", "text": "Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 10:8", "text": "For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 10:9", "text": "[Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 10:10", "text": "As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 10:11", "text": "Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 10:12", "text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 10:13", "text": "For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man]:" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 10:14", "text": "And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 10:15", "text": "Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth with it? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it, [or] as if the staff should lift [itself], [as if it were] no wood." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 10:16", "text": "Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 10:17", "text": "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;" }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 10:18", "text": "And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 10:19", "text": "And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 10:20", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 10:21", "text": "The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 10:22", "text": "For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 10:23", "text": "For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 10:24", "text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 10:25", "text": "For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 10:26", "text": "And the LORD of hosts will raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 10:27", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 10:28", "text": "He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his furniture." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 10:29", "text": "They have gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul hath fled." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "name": "Isaiah 10:30", "text": "Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard to Laish, O poor Anathoth." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "name": "Isaiah 10:31", "text": "Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "name": "Isaiah 10:32", "text": "As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "name": "Isaiah 10:33", "text": "Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts will lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled." }, { "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "name": "Isaiah 10:34", "text": "And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one." } ] }, { "chapter": 11, "name": "Isaiah 11", "verses": [ { "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 11:1", "text": "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 11:2", "text": "And the spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 11:3", "text": "And will make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:" }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 11:4", "text": "But with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 11:5", "text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 11:6", "text": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 11:7", "text": "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 11:8", "text": "And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the basilisk." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 11:9", "text": "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 11:10", "text": "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 11:11", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the isles of the sea." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 11:12", "text": "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 11:13", "text": "The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not distress Ephraim." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 11:14", "text": "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 11:15", "text": "And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dry shod." }, { "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 11:16", "text": "And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; as it was to Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt." } ] }, { "chapter": 12, "name": "Isaiah 12", "verses": [ { "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 12:1", "text": "And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 12:2", "text": "Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 12:3", "text": "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 12:4", "text": "And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 12:5", "text": "Sing to the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this [is] known in all the earth." }, { "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 12:6", "text": "Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee." } ] }, { "chapter": 13, "name": "Isaiah 13", "verses": [ { "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 13:1", "text": "The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 13:2", "text": "Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 13:3", "text": "I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 13:4", "text": "The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 13:5", "text": "They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 13:6", "text": "Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 13:7", "text": "Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:" }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 13:8", "text": "And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 13:9", "text": "Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy its sinners out of it." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 13:10", "text": "For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 13:11", "text": "And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 13:12", "text": "I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 13:13", "text": "Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 13:14", "text": "And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 13:15", "text": "Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [to them] shall fall by the sword." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 13:16", "text": "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 13:17", "text": "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 13:18", "text": "[Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 13:19", "text": "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellence, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 13:20", "text": "It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 13:21", "text": "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there." }, { "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 13:22", "text": "And the wild beasts of the isles shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." } ] }, { "chapter": 14, "name": "Isaiah 14", "verses": [ { "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 14:1", "text": "For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 14:2", "text": "And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 14:3", "text": "And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage in which thou wast made to serve," }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 14:4", "text": "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 14:5", "text": "The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the scepter of the rulers." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 14:6", "text": "He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none hindereth." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 14:7", "text": "The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 14:8", "text": "Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 14:9", "text": "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 14:10", "text": "All they shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like us?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 14:11", "text": "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 14:12", "text": "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 14:13", "text": "For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 14:14", "text": "I will ascend above the hights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 14:15", "text": "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 14:16", "text": "They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying], [Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms:" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 14:17", "text": "[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 14:18", "text": "All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 14:19", "text": "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 14:20", "text": "Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 14:21", "text": "Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 14:22", "text": "For I will arise against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 14:23", "text": "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 14:24", "text": "The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, [so] shall it stand." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 14:25", "text": "That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 14:26", "text": "This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched over all the nations." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 14:27", "text": "For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall turn it back?" }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 14:28", "text": "In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 14:29", "text": "Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "name": "Isaiah 14:30", "text": "And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "name": "Isaiah 14:31", "text": "Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, all Palestina, [art] dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none [shall be] alone in his appointed times." }, { "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "name": "Isaiah 14:32", "text": "What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it." } ] }, { "chapter": 15, "name": "Isaiah 15", "verses": [ { "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 15:1", "text": "The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;" }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 15:2", "text": "He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard shorn." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 15:3", "text": "In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 15:4", "text": "And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard [even] to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 15:5", "text": "My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, a heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of destruction." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 15:6", "text": "For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 15:7", "text": "Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 15:8", "text": "For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-elim." }, { "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 15:9", "text": "For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land." } ] }, { "chapter": 16, "name": "Isaiah 16", "verses": [ { "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 16:1", "text": "Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 16:2", "text": "For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 16:3", "text": "Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 16:4", "text": "Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 16:5", "text": "And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 16:6", "text": "We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his lies [shall] not [be] so." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 16:7", "text": "Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] stricken." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 16:8", "text": "For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down her principal plants, they have come [even] to Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 16:9", "text": "Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 16:10", "text": "And gladness is taken away, and joy from the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage]-shouting to cease." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 16:11", "text": "Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-haresh." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 16:12", "text": "And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 16:13", "text": "This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time." }, { "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 16:14", "text": "But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble." } ] }, { "chapter": 17, "name": "Isaiah 17", "verses": [ { "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 17:1", "text": "The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 17:2", "text": "The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 17:3", "text": "The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 17:4", "text": "And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 17:5", "text": "And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 17:6", "text": "Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 17:7", "text": "At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 17:8", "text": "And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 17:9", "text": "In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 17:10", "text": "Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign slips:" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 17:11", "text": "In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 17:12", "text": "Woe to the multitude of many people, [who] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!" }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 17:13", "text": "The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] will rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind." }, { "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 17:14", "text": "And behold at the time of evening trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that ravage us, and the lot of them that rob us." } ] }, { "chapter": 18, "name": "Isaiah 18", "verses": [ { "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 18:1", "text": "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush:" }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 18:2", "text": "That sendeth embassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the rivers have laid waste." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 18:3", "text": "All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 18:4", "text": "For so the LORD said to me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 18:5", "text": "For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 18:6", "text": "They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them." }, { "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 18:7", "text": "In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion." } ] }, { "chapter": 19, "name": "Isaiah 19", "verses": [ { "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 19:1", "text": "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 19:2", "text": "And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 19:3", "text": "And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her, and I will destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 19:4", "text": "And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 19:5", "text": "And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 19:6", "text": "And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 19:7", "text": "The paper-reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more]." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 19:8", "text": "The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 19:9", "text": "Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave net-works shall be confounded." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 19:10", "text": "And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 19:11", "text": "Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 19:12", "text": "Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 19:13", "text": "The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the support of its tribes." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 19:14", "text": "The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 19:15", "text": "Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 19:16", "text": "In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 19:17", "text": "And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 19:18", "text": "In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 19:19", "text": "In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 19:20", "text": "And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 19:21", "text": "And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform [it]." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 19:22", "text": "And the LORD will smite Egypt: he will smite and heal [it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 19:23", "text": "In that day shall there be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians." }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 19:24", "text": "In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:" }, { "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 19:25", "text": "Whom the LORD of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." } ] }, { "chapter": 20, "name": "Isaiah 20", "verses": [ { "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 20:1", "text": "In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 20:2", "text": "At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 20:3", "text": "And the LORD said, As my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Cush;" }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 20:4", "text": "So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Cushites captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] hind-parts uncovered, to the shame of Egypt." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 20:5", "text": "And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory." }, { "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 20:6", "text": "And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?" } ] }, { "chapter": 21, "name": "Isaiah 21", "verses": [ { "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 21:1", "text": "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 21:2", "text": "A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 21:3", "text": "Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it]." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 21:4", "text": "My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 21:5", "text": "Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 21:6", "text": "For thus hath the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 21:7", "text": "And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 21:8", "text": "And he cried, a lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 21:9", "text": "And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 21:10", "text": "O my threshing, and the corn of my floor; that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 21:11", "text": "The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 21:12", "text": "The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 21:13", "text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 21:14", "text": "The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they met with their bread him that fled." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 21:15", "text": "For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war." }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 21:16", "text": "For thus hath the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:" }, { "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 21:17", "text": "And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it]." } ] }, { "chapter": 22, "name": "Isaiah 22", "verses": [ { "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 22:1", "text": "The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 22:2", "text": "Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 22:3", "text": "All thy rulers have fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [who] have fled from far." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 22:4", "text": "Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 22:5", "text": "For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 22:6", "text": "And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 22:7", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 22:8", "text": "And he uncovered the coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 22:9", "text": "Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected the waters of the lower pool." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 22:10", "text": "And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 22:11", "text": "Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked to its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 22:12", "text": "And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 22:13", "text": "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 22:14", "text": "And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 22:15", "text": "Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say]," }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 22:16", "text": "What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, [and] that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 22:17", "text": "Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 22:18", "text": "With violence he will surely turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 22:19", "text": "And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 22:20", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:" }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 22:21", "text": "And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 22:22", "text": "And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 22:23", "text": "And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 22:24", "text": "And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons." }, { "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 22:25", "text": "In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it." } ] }, { "chapter": 23, "name": "Isaiah 23", "verses": [ { "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 23:1", "text": "The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 23:2", "text": "Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 23:3", "text": "And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 23:4", "text": "Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, [nor] bring up virgins." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 23:5", "text": "As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 23:6", "text": "Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 23:7", "text": "[Is] this your joyous [city], whose antiquity [is] of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her far off to sojourn." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 23:8", "text": "Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the honorable of the earth?" }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 23:9", "text": "The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 23:10", "text": "Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 23:11", "text": "He stretched his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant [city], to destroy its strong holds." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 23:12", "text": "And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 23:13", "text": "Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up its towers, they raised up its palaces; [and] he brought it to ruin." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 23:14", "text": "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 23:15", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 23:16", "text": "Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 23:17", "text": "And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth." }, { "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 23:18", "text": "And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food, and for durable clothing." } ] }, { "chapter": 24, "name": "Isaiah 24", "verses": [ { "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 24:1", "text": "Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 24:2", "text": "And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 24:3", "text": "The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 24:4", "text": "The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 24:5", "text": "The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 24:6", "text": "Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 24:7", "text": "The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 24:8", "text": "The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 24:9", "text": "They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 24:10", "text": "The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 24:11", "text": "[There] is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 24:12", "text": "In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 24:13", "text": "When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive-tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 24:14", "text": "They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 24:15", "text": "Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even] the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 24:16", "text": "From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 24:17", "text": "Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 24:18", "text": "And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 24:19", "text": "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is entirely dissolved, the earth is exceedingly moved." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 24:20", "text": "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 24:21", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 24:22", "text": "And they shall be gathered, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited." }, { "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 24:23", "text": "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." } ] }, { "chapter": 25, "name": "Isaiah 25", "verses": [ { "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 25:1", "text": "O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things]; [thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 25:2", "text": "For thou hast made of a city a heap; [of] a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 25:3", "text": "Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 25:4", "text": "For thou hast been a defense to the poor, a defense to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 25:5", "text": "Thou wilt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shade of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 25:6", "text": "And on this mountain will the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 25:7", "text": "And he will destroy on this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail [that is] spread over all nations." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 25:8", "text": "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people will he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it]." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 25:9", "text": "And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 25:10", "text": "For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 25:11", "text": "And he will spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands." }, { "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 25:12", "text": "And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust." } ] }, { "chapter": 26, "name": "Isaiah 26", "verses": [ { "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 26:1", "text": "In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls and bulwarks." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 26:2", "text": "Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 26:3", "text": "Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 26:4", "text": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength:" }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 26:5", "text": "For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 26:6", "text": "The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 26:7", "text": "The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 26:8", "text": "Yes, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 26:9", "text": "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 26:10", "text": "Let favor be shown to the wicked, [yet] he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 26:11", "text": "LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yes, the fire of thy enemies shall devour them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 26:12", "text": "LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 26:13", "text": "O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion over us; [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 26:14", "text": "[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 26:15", "text": "Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far to all the ends of the earth." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 26:16", "text": "LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 26:17", "text": "As a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 26:18", "text": "We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 26:19", "text": "Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 26:20", "text": "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation shall be overpast." }, { "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 26:21", "text": "For behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." } ] }, { "chapter": 27, "name": "Isaiah 27", "verses": [ { "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 27:1", "text": "In that day the LORD with his keen and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon that [is] in the sea." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 27:2", "text": "In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard of red wine." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 27:3", "text": "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 27:4", "text": "Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 27:5", "text": "Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me, [and] he shall make peace with me." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 27:6", "text": "He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 27:7", "text": "Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?" }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 27:8", "text": "In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 27:9", "text": "By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten asunder, the groves and images shall not stand up." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 27:10", "text": "Yet the fortified city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 27:11", "text": "When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 27:12", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel." }, { "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 27:13", "text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 28, "name": "Isaiah 28", "verses": [ { "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 28:1", "text": "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower; who [are] on the head of the rich valleys of them that are overcome with wine!" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 28:2", "text": "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 28:3", "text": "The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 28:4", "text": "And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the early fruit before the summer; which, [when] he that looketh upon it, seeth while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 28:5", "text": "In that day will the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people," }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 28:6", "text": "And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 28:7", "text": "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 28:8", "text": "For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 28:9", "text": "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 28:10", "text": "For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 28:11", "text": "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 28:12", "text": "To whom he said, This [is] the rest [with which] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 28:13", "text": "But the word of the LORD was to them, precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 28:14", "text": "Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 28:15", "text": "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 28:16", "text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 28:17", "text": "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 28:18", "text": "And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 28:19", "text": "From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 28:20", "text": "For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it]." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 28:21", "text": "For the LORD will rise as [on] mount Perazim, he will be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 28:22", "text": "Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 28:23", "text": "Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 28:24", "text": "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 28:25", "text": "When he hath made even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the vetches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rye in their place?" }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 28:26", "text": "For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 28:27", "text": "For the vetches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the vetches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 28:28", "text": "Bread-[corn] is bruised; because he will not always be threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it [with] his horsemen." }, { "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 28:29", "text": "This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [who] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in operation." } ] }, { "chapter": 29, "name": "Isaiah 29", "verses": [ { "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 29:1", "text": "Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 29:2", "text": "Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 29:3", "text": "And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 29:4", "text": "And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 29:5", "text": "Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 29:6", "text": "Thou shalt be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 29:7", "text": "And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night-vision." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 29:8", "text": "It shall even be as when a hungry [man] dreameth, and behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 29:9", "text": "Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 29:10", "text": "For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 29:11", "text": "And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 29:12", "text": "And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 29:13", "text": "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 29:14", "text": "Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, [even] an astonishing work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 29:15", "text": "Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 29:16", "text": "Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 29:17", "text": "[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 29:18", "text": "And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 29:19", "text": "The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 29:20", "text": "For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scoffer is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:" }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 29:21", "text": "That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 29:22", "text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now become pale." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 29:23", "text": "But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel." }, { "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 29:24", "text": "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." } ] }, { "chapter": 30, "name": "Isaiah 30", "verses": [ { "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 30:1", "text": "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 30:2", "text": "That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shade of Egypt!" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 30:3", "text": "Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shade of Egypt [your] confusion." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 30:4", "text": "For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to Hanes." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 30:5", "text": "They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 30:6", "text": "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them]." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 30:7", "text": "For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 30:8", "text": "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 30:9", "text": "That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 30:10", "text": "Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 30:11", "text": "Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 30:12", "text": "Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 30:13", "text": "Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 30:14", "text": "And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 30:15", "text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 30:16", "text": "But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 30:17", "text": "One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 30:18", "text": "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 30:19", "text": "For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 30:20", "text": "And [though] the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 30:21", "text": "And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 30:22", "text": "Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Be gone from me." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 30:23", "text": "Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 30:24", "text": "The oxen likewise and the young asses that plow the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 30:25", "text": "And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 30:26", "text": "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 30:27", "text": "Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [of it is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:" }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 30:28", "text": "And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 30:29", "text": "Ye shall have a song, as in the night, [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "name": "Isaiah 30:30", "text": "And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "name": "Isaiah 30:31", "text": "For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [who] smote with a rod." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "name": "Isaiah 30:32", "text": "And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it." }, { "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "name": "Isaiah 30:33", "text": "For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile of it [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it." } ] }, { "chapter": 31, "name": "Isaiah 31", "verses": [ { "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 31:1", "text": "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!" }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 31:2", "text": "Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 31:3", "text": "Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 31:4", "text": "For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 31:5", "text": "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it]; [and] passing over he will preserve [it]." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 31:6", "text": "Turn ye to [him from] whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 31:7", "text": "For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you [for] a sin." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 31:8", "text": "Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited." }, { "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 31:9", "text": "And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem." } ] }, { "chapter": 32, "name": "Isaiah 32", "verses": [ { "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 32:1", "text": "Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 32:2", "text": "And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 32:3", "text": "And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 32:4", "text": "The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 32:5", "text": "The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 32:6", "text": "For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 32:7", "text": "The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 32:8", "text": "But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 32:9", "text": "Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear to my speech." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 32:10", "text": "Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 32:11", "text": "Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 32:12", "text": "They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 32:13", "text": "Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; also, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 32:14", "text": "Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 32:15", "text": "Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 32:16", "text": "Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 32:17", "text": "And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 32:18", "text": "And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places;" }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 32:19", "text": "When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place." }, { "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 32:20", "text": "Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass." } ] }, { "chapter": 33, "name": "Isaiah 33", "verses": [ { "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 33:1", "text": "Woe to thee that layest waste, and thou [wast] not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 33:2", "text": "O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 33:3", "text": "At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 33:4", "text": "And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 33:5", "text": "The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 33:6", "text": "And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 33:7", "text": "Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the embassadors of peace shall weep bitterly." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 33:8", "text": "The highways lie waste, the way-faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 33:9", "text": "The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits]." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 33:10", "text": "Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 33:11", "text": "Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 33:12", "text": "And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 33:13", "text": "Ye [that are] far off, hear what I have done; and ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 33:14", "text": "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 33:15", "text": "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 33:16", "text": "He shall dwell on high: his place of defense [shall be] the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 33:17", "text": "Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 33:18", "text": "Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?" }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 33:19", "text": "Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not understand." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 33:20", "text": "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 33:21", "text": "But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place of broad rivers [and] streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 33:22", "text": "For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 33:23", "text": "Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey." }, { "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 33:24", "text": "And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity." } ] }, { "chapter": 34, "name": "Isaiah 34", "verses": [ { "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 34:1", "text": "Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that spring from it." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 34:2", "text": "For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 34:3", "text": "Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ill smell shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 34:4", "text": "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig-tree." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 34:5", "text": "For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 34:6", "text": "The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 34:7", "text": "And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 34:8", "text": "For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 34:9", "text": "And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 34:10", "text": "It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall ascend for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 34:11", "text": "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 34:12", "text": "They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 34:13", "text": "And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses, and it shall be a habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 34:14", "text": "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 34:15", "text": "There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 34:16", "text": "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them." }, { "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 34:17", "text": "And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein." } ] }, { "chapter": 35, "name": "Isaiah 35", "verses": [ { "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 35:1", "text": "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 35:2", "text": "It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellence of our God." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 35:3", "text": "Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 35:4", "text": "Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompense; he will come and save you." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 35:5", "text": "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 35:6", "text": "Then shall the lame [man] leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 35:7", "text": "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 35:8", "text": "And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it [shall be] for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err [therein]." }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 35:9", "text": "No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:" }, { "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 35:10", "text": "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." } ] }, { "chapter": 36, "name": "Isaiah 36", "verses": [ { "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 36:1", "text": "Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 36:2", "text": "And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem against king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 36:3", "text": "Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 36:4", "text": "And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which thou trustest?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 36:5", "text": "I say, [sayest thou] (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 36:6", "text": "Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 36:7", "text": "But if thou shalt say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 36:8", "text": "Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou canst on thy part set riders upon them." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 36:9", "text": "How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 36:10", "text": "And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 36:11", "text": "Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jew's language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 36:12", "text": "But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may devour their vilest excretions with you?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 36:13", "text": "Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jew's language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 36:14", "text": "Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he will not be able to deliver you." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 36:15", "text": "Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, the LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 36:16", "text": "Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 36:17", "text": "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 36:18", "text": "[Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 36:19", "text": "Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 36:20", "text": "Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?" }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 36:21", "text": "But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not." }, { "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 36:22", "text": "Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh." } ] }, { "chapter": 37, "name": "Isaiah 37", "verses": [ { "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 37:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 37:2", "text": "And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 37:3", "text": "And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 37:4", "text": "It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 37:5", "text": "So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 37:6", "text": "And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 37:7", "text": "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 37:8", "text": "So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "name": "Isaiah 37:9", "text": "And he heard it said concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying," }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "name": "Isaiah 37:10", "text": "Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "name": "Isaiah 37:11", "text": "Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "name": "Isaiah 37:12", "text": "Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who [were] in Telassar?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "name": "Isaiah 37:13", "text": "Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "name": "Isaiah 37:14", "text": "And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "name": "Isaiah 37:15", "text": "And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying," }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "name": "Isaiah 37:16", "text": "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "name": "Isaiah 37:17", "text": "Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach the living God." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "name": "Isaiah 37:18", "text": "Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries," }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "name": "Isaiah 37:19", "text": "And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "name": "Isaiah 37:20", "text": "Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "name": "Isaiah 37:21", "text": "Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "name": "Isaiah 37:22", "text": "This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, [and] derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "name": "Isaiah 37:23", "text": "Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "name": "Isaiah 37:24", "text": "By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots have I come up to the hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, [and] its choice fir-trees: and I will enter into the hight of its border, [and] the forest of its Carmel." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "name": "Isaiah 37:25", "text": "I have digged, and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "name": "Isaiah 37:26", "text": "Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "name": "Isaiah 37:27", "text": "Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house-tops, and [as corn] blasted before it is grown up." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "name": "Isaiah 37:28", "text": "But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "name": "Isaiah 37:29", "text": "Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 30, "name": "Isaiah 37:30", "text": "And this [shall be] a sign to thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 31, "name": "Isaiah 37:31", "text": "And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:" }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 32, "name": "Isaiah 37:32", "text": "For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 33, "name": "Isaiah 37:33", "text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a mound against it." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 34, "name": "Isaiah 37:34", "text": "By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 35, "name": "Isaiah 37:35", "text": "For I will defend this city, to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 36, "name": "Isaiah 37:36", "text": "Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 37, "name": "Isaiah 37:37", "text": "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh." }, { "chapter": 37, "verse": 38, "name": "Isaiah 37:38", "text": "And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead." } ] }, { "chapter": 38, "name": "Isaiah 38", "verses": [ { "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "name": "Isaiah 38:1", "text": "In those days was Hezekiah sick with a mortal disease. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "name": "Isaiah 38:2", "text": "Then Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the LORD," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "name": "Isaiah 38:3", "text": "And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "name": "Isaiah 38:4", "text": "Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying," }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "name": "Isaiah 38:5", "text": "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "name": "Isaiah 38:6", "text": "And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city." }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "name": "Isaiah 38:7", "text": "And this [shall be] a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;" }, { "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "name": "Isaiah 38:8", "text": "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down." }, {