# bible

book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers’ houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father’s house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  These also, the head of each father’s house and his younger brother alike, cast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the LORD.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, to him and his brothers and his sons, twelve;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Also to his son Shemaiah were sons born who were rulers in their fathers’ houses, for they were men of great ability.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad, whose brothers were able men, Elihu and Semachiah.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  All these were of the sons of Obed-edom with their sons and brothers, able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, his father made him chief),


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brothers did, ministering in the house of the LORD.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  For Shuppim and Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shallecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  On the east there were six each day, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the gatehouse.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And of the Levites, Ahijah had charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  The sons of Jehieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the LORD.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  His brothers: from Eliezer were his son Rehabiah, and his son Jeshaiah, and his son Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son Shelomoth.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  This Shelomoth and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts that David the king and the heads of the fathers’ houses and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Also 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—all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, 1,700 men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the service of the king.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was chief of the Hebronites of whatever genealogy or fathers’ houses. (In the fortieth year of David’s reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.)


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  King David appointed him and his brothers, 2,700 men of ability, heads of fathers’ houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites for everything pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  This is the number of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering 24,000:


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The third commander, for the third month, was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  This is the Benaiah who was a mighty man of the thirty and in command of the thirty; Ammizabad his son was in charge of his division.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Asahel the brother of Joab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadiah after him; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; in his division were 24,000.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was chief officer; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  for the Ephraimites, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; for the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  for the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; for Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but did not finish. Yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Over the king’s treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe. He and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king’s sons.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was commander of the king’s army. 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men and all the seasoned warriors.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it 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 I made preparations for building.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  He said to me, ‘It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.’


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Be careful now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it.”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the LORD; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the LORD,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  the weight of the golden lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and pure gold for the forks, the basins and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each;


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  “All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the LORD, all the work to be done according to the plan.”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command.” 


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself today to the LORD?”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then the leaders of fathers’ houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the king’s work.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, in the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision.”


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless the LORD your God.” And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and on the next day offered burnt offerings to the LORD, 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And they 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 they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  And the LORD made Solomon very great in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
content:
  Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,


book: 1Chronicles
label: 1Chron
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  with accounts of all his rule and his might and of the circumstances that came upon him and upon Israel and upon all the kingdoms of the countries. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders would buy them from Kue for a price.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained forever for Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
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  Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.”


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  Hiram also said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.


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  the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.


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  Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants.


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  And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”


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  Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.


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  Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work. 


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  Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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  These are Solomon’s measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.


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  The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.


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  So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors—and he carved cherubim on the walls.


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  And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.


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  The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;


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  and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.


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  The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.


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  And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.


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  In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.


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  He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.


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  He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz. 


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  Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.


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  Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.


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  He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.


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  And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.


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  He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.


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  He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.


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  Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:


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  the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;


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  and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.


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  The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.


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  So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,


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  the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold. 


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  Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.


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  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.


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  And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.


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  And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.


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  Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.


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  The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.


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  And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.


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  There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.


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  And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions,


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  and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters;


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  and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,” the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,


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  so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God. 


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  ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;


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  but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’


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  Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’


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  Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel.”


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  Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.


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  Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,


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  and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,


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  who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.


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  Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’


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  Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.


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  “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!


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  Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,


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  that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.


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  And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.


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  then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.


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  “If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,


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  then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.


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  “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,


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  whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,


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  then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,


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  that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.


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  “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,


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  hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.


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  “If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,


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  “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,


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  yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’


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  if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,


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  then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.


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  “And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.


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  O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.” 


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  As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.


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  And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD’s house.


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  When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”


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  King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.


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  The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.


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  And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.


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  At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.


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  And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.


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  On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.


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  Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished.


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  Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.


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  When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,


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  if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.


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  For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.


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  And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,


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  then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’


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  “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,


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  then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.


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  And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’


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  Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the 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 he has brought all this disaster on them.’” 


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  and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.


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  All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,


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  from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day.


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  But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.


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  Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.”


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  Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,


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  as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.


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  According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.


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  And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.


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  Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.


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  And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. 


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  Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.


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  And Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing hidden from Solomon that he could not explain to her.


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  the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her.


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  but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.


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  Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!


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  Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”


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  Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.


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  Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.


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  And the king made from the algum wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.


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  And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.


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  besides that which the explorers and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.


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  King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.


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  And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.


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  The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,


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  while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom.


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  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. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.


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  For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.


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  And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.


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  Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.


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  And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.


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  And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.


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  Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?


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  And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 


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  And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.


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  And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”


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  But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.


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  And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.


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label: 2Chron
content:
  King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfill his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So all Israel went to their tents.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all places where they lived.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the LORD, ‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  “And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the LORD struck him down, and he died.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Asa cried to the LORD his God, “O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they struck down the tents of those who had livestock and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  but when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king’s house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  “There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the LORD with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute, and the Arabians also brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and he had large supplies in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  This was the muster of them by fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor;


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the LORD, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph. The LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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 refrain?” And he answered, “Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The LORD has declared disaster concerning you.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and say, ‘Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison and feed him with meager rations of bread and water until I return in peace.’”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God drew them away from him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. Then at sunset he died. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the LORD our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters, and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright!” 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, Engedi).


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the LORD to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God’s.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them, in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than you,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He even followed their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received 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 wounded.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and one third shall be at the king’s house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of God.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the LORD to the people.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the LORD.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king’s house, and they put her to death there.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD’s people.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the LORD under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they set the king on the royal throne.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he gathered 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 you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king’s secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD regularly all the days of Jehoiada.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers’ houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were 300,000 choice men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Therefore the LORD was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, in the care of Obed-edom. He seized also the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the LORD had struck him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king’s household, governing the people of the land.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah had done, except he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents of silver, and 10,000 cors of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the LORD your God?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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 Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they 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 and carried it out to the brook Kidron.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male 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.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Hezekiah said, “You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Besides the great number of burnt offerings, there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the LORD was restored.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had provided for the people, for the thing came about suddenly. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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, the God of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD pardon everyone


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the people of Israel who 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 all their might to the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the LORD and to give thanks and praise.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the LORD and the most holy offerings.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward—all who entered the house of the LORD as the duty of each day required—for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers’ houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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 took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD, and he answered him and gave him a sign.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs 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 place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed 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.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD. And the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD gave it for repairing and restoring the house.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given through Moses.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, “All that was committed to your servants they are doing.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have given it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  “Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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 all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ houses by your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And stand in the Holy Place according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by fathers’ household.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the LORD,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  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, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:


book: 2Chronicles
label: 2Chron
content:
  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.’” 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  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, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem. 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.


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  They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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  The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139.


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  The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:


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  Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).


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  These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.


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  The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.


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  besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female singers.


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  Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.


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  According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests’ garments.


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  Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel in their towns. 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.


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label: Ezra
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  Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they 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.


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label: Ezra
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  They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.


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label: Ezra
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  And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,


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  and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.


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label: Ezra
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  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.


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  So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.


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label: Ezra
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  Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD.


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  And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.


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  And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.


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  And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward 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.


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  But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,


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  so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away. 


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label: Ezra
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  Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,


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  they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”


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  But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”


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  and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.


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  And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.


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label: Ezra
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  In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.


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label: Ezra
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  Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:


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  Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,


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  and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.


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  (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now


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  be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.


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  Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.


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label: Ezra
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  Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,


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  in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.


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  We make known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”


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label: Ezra
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  The king sent an answer: “To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now


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  And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.


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  And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.


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  Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.


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  Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.


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  At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: “Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?”


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  But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates, the governors who were in the province Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.


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  Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.


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label: Ezra
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  Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus: ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?’


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.


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  And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.


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  But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.


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  However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.


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  And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;


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  and he said to him, “Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site.”


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label: Ezra
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  Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.’


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  Therefore, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.” 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,


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  with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.


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label: Ezra
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  And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”


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  “Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.


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  Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.


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label: Ezra
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  Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.


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label: Ezra
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  And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,


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  that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.


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  Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.


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  May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.


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label: Ezra
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  And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia;


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  and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.


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label: Ezra
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  And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.


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label: Ezra
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  They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.


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  And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.


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  For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.


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  It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. 


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label: Ezra
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  Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,


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  this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.


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label: Ezra
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  And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.


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  For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.


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  For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel:


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  “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now


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  I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.


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  For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand,


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  and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,


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  with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem.


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  With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.


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  Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.


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  The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.


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  And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king’s treasury.


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  “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence,


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  up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.


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label: Ezra
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  Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.


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  We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.


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  “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.


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  Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”


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label: Ezra
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  Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem,


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  and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:


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  Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men.


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  Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men.


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  I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.


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label: Ezra
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  Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,


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  and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.


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label: Ezra
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  And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;


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  besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.


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label: Ezra
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  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.


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label: Ezra
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  For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”


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  Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.


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label: Ezra
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  And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold,


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label: Ezra
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  And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.


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label: Ezra
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  Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.”


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.


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label: Ezra
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  On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.


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label: Ezra
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  They also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God. 


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label: Ezra
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  After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.


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label: Ezra
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  For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”


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label: Ezra
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  As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,


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label: Ezra
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  saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  O LORD, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.” 


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.


book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king. 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  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 fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.” 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Gate of Yeshanah. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of the governor of the province Beyond the River.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired another section from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and to the corner.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired. 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah,


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand. 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.


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  Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid. 


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  Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,


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  I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.


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  And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.”


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  Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:


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  These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.


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  They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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  The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.


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  The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers’ houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:


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  Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).


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  These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.


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  The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.


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  besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.


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  Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests’ garments and 500 minas of silver.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.


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label: Neh
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  And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests’ garments.


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label: Neh
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  So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns. 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.


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  And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.


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  And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand.


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  And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood.


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  And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.


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  Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.


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label: Neh
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  They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.


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label: Neh
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  And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.


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  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”


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label: Neh
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  And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.


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label: Neh
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  On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.


book: Nehemiah
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  And they found it written in the Law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,


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  and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.”


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label: Neh
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  So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.


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label: Neh
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  And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.


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label: Neh
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  And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule. 


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label: Neh
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  Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.


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label: Neh
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  And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God.


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label: Neh
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  On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


book: Nehemiah
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  “You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.


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  You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.


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label: Neh
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  You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.


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label: Neh
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  and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.


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label: Neh
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  And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.


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label: Neh
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  By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.


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label: Neh
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  You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,


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label: Neh
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  and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.


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label: Neh
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  You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.


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label: Neh
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  “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.


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label: Neh
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  They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.


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label: Neh
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  Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,


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label: Neh
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  you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.


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label: Neh
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  You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.


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label: Neh
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  Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.


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label: Neh
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  “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.


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label: Neh
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  You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.


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label: Neh
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  So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.


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label: Neh
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  And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.


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label: Neh
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  “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.


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label: Neh
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  Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.


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label: Neh
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  But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.


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label: Neh
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  And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  “Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.


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label: Neh
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  Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.


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label: Neh
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  Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.


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label: Neh
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  Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.


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label: Neh
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  Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.


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label: Neh
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  And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.


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label: Neh
content:
  “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests. 


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label: Neh
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  “The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,


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  join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.


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  And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:


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  for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


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  We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.


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  We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;


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  also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;


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  and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.


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label: Neh
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  And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.


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label: Neh
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  For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.” 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
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  Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.


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label: Neh
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  These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.


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label: Neh
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  And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of Perez;


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  and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite.


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  And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,


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  Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, ruler of the house of God,


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  and their brothers who did the work of the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah,


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  and his brothers, heads of fathers’ houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,


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  and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;


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  and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.


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  And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.


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  The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.


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  For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as every day required.


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label: Neh
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  And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s side in all matters concerning the people.


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label: Neh
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  And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,


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  Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.


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label: Neh
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  These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


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content:
  Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.


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label: Neh
content:
  And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,


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label: Neh
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  And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


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label: Neh
content:
  In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers’ houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers’ houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe.


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label: Neh
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  And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.


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label: Neh
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  And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;


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label: Neh
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  also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate.


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label: Neh
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  and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;


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label: Neh
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  and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.


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label: Neh
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  At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,


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label: Neh
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  and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.


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label: Neh
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  So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;


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label: Neh
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  and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;


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label: Neh
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  and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron. 


book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,


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  for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.


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  Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah,


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  prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.


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  While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king


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  and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.


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  Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.


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  I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.


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  So I confronted the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.


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  And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.


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  Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.


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label: Neh
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  In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.


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  Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!


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  Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?


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  Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”


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  As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.


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  But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.


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  Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.


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  And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.


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  And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.


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  Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.


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  Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”


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  And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.


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  Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.


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  Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;


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  and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good. 


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  in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,


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  while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days.


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  And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.


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  There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.


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  Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.


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  And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.” For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.


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  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,


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  to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.


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  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.


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  Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,


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  the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom):


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  “According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?”


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  Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.


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  For the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’


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  This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will say the same to all the king’s officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.


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  If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.


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  So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”


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  He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be master in his own household and speak according to the language of his people. 


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  After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.


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  Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.


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  And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them.


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  And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.


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  Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,


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  who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.


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  He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.


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  So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women.


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  And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.


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  Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.


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  And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.


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  Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—


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  when the young woman went in to the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.


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  In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.


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  When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.


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  And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,


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  the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.


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  Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther’s feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.


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  Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.


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  Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.


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  In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.


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  And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.


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  When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. 


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label: Es
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  After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.


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  And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.


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  Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”


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  And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.


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  But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.


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  In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.


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  Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.


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  If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”


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  So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.


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  And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”


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  Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.


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  Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.


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  A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.


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  The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion. 


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  When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.


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  He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.


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  And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.


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  When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.


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  Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.


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  and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.


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  Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people.


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  “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”


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  Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.


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  For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”


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  “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”


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  On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.


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  And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.


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  And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”


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  And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.”


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  Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared.


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  And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, “What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”


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  If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”


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  And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.


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  Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.


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  And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.


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  Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.


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  Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made. 


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  On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.


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  And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.


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  And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king’s young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”


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  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


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  And the king’s young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”


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  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”


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  let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.


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  And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”


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  Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”


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  So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”


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  Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.


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  And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”


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  While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared. 


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  And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”


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  Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.


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  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”


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  And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.


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  And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.


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  And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.


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  Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”


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  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated. 


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  On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.


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  And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.


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  Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.


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  And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.


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  For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”


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label: Es
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  Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  The king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king’s service, bred from the royal stud,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king’s service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them. 


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth,


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor 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?


book: Esther
label: Es
content:
  For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great. 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “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.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.” 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food? 


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.


book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who rescued me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from the man of violence.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. 


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  One thing have I asked 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 gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,


book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever! 


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  Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!


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  I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,


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  Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.


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  For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.


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  Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.


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  For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.


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  O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.


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  Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!


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  In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.


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  Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.


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  I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.


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  Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.


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  Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.


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  For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah


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  I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah


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  Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.


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  You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah


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  I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.


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  Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.


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  Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!


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  Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction!


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  All my bones shall say, “O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”


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  But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.


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  I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.


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  But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;


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  How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!


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  Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.


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  For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.


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  Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”


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  Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!


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  Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”


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  He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.


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  Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.


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  How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.


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  Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart!


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  Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!


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  In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.


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  The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright;


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  But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.


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  I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.


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  For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.


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  Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.


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  The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him. 


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  There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.


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  Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.


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  I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”


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  Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah


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  Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!


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  When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah


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  “Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.


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  He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.


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  He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.


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  Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!


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  You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.


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  In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.


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  I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.


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  I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.


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  As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!


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  For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.


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  Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!


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  But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the LORD!”


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  As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God! 


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  the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.


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  And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.


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  My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”


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  These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.


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  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation


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  and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.


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  Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.


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  By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.


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  I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”


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  As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”


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  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 


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  Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!


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  For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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  Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!


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  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.


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  O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:


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  you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;


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  for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.


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  All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.


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  My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.


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  You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.


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  In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!


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  you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;


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  your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;


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  daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.


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  I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever. 


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  Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,


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  He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.


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  “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”


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  The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted! 


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  beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.


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  As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah


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  As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.


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  For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.


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  Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.


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  This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts. Selah


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  Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.


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  For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed —and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—


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  The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.


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  Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.


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  But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?


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  These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.


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  The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” 


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  Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.


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  Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.


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  Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.


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  For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.


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  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


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  then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar. 


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  But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah


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  “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”


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  But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.


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  I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. 


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  The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.


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  God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.


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  They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.


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  Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?


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  There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.


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  Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. 


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  For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah


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  With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O LORD, for it is good.


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  because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.


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  For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.


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  Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.


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  God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.


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  His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.


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  Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.


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  But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you. 


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  For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. 


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  Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.


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  He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!


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  My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.


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  They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah


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  Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.


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  The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.


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  Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” 


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  For behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,


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  You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah


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  There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”


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  Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!


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  For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,


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  consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah


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  But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.


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  O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. 


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  God has spoken in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.


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  from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,


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  They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah


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  Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.


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  Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.


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  and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work. 


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  O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.


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  But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped. 


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  They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”


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  They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.


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  They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.


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  Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult! 


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  Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!


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  By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas;


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  so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.


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  You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.


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  You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.


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  the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy. 


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  Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.


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  He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,


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  who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah


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  you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.


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  I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah


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  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah


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  As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!


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  Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him!


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  God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.


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  the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.


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  though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.


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  Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever?


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  The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.


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  You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.


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  The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,


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  that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”


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  There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.


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  Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.


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  to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.


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  Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! 


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  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.


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  More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?


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  Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.


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  For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.


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  But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.


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  Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.


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  For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.


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  For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it;


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  Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!


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  May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”


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  But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay! 


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  Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.


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  Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.


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  May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.


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  My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.


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  With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.


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  So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.


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  Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?


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  You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.


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  I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.


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  And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt. 


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  May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!


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  May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!


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  Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!


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  May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!


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  May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!


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  For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.


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  But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. 


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  Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.


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  They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.


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  They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.


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  We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.


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  Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!


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  Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.


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  Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.


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  Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! 


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  We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.


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  For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.


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  The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.


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  Make your vows to the LORD your God and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,


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  In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.


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  I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:


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  When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled.


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  The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.


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  We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.


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  He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,


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  that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,


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  so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;


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  and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.


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  He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”


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  Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,


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  the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.


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  Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.


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  He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.


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  He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.


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  He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.


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  from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.


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  O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.


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  They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.


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  They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.


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  Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!


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  Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.


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  Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!


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  Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!


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  Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!


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  But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise. 


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  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.


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  But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!


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  He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:


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  In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah


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  I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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  But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” 


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  They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.


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  My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.


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  Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.


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  As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.


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  For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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  For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.


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  Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.


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  All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.


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  O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.


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  But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.


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  Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.


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  Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me. 


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  Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush— “This one was born there,” they say.


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  And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.


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  like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.


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  You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;


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  I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.


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  For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”


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  a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?


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  The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.


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  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.


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  Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.


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  Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,


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  Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.


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  For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.


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  You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:


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  The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.


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  Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands! 


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  He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.


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  You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.


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  “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.


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  When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.


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  that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;


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  For behold, your enemies, O LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.


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  The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.


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  The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.


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  Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!


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  He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out. 


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  Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!


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  For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,


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  For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”


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  Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”


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  before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness. 


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  Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.


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  All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!


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  O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.


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  Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.


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  The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.


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  He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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  before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. 


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  The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.


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  Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the LORD, and he answered them.


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  In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them.


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  O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.


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  Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.


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  I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;


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  I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.


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  Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.


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  I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.


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  No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.


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  Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD. 


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  Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!


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  Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:


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  “O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!”


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  They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,


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  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;


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  But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,


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  Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty,


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  He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;


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  You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth


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  and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.


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  O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.


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  Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.


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  When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.


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  When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.


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  Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! 


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  And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil,


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  Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!


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  that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.


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  Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.


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  Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.


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  they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.


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  Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.


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  For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.


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  Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.


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  Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD! 


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  They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;


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  God has promised in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Valley of Succoth.


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  May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!


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  For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.


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  He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!


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  He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!


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  But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!


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  For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death. 


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  Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.


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  The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”


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  He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.


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  Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.


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  He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!


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  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! 


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  He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.


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  The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish! 


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  Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!


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  They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.


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  The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;


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  The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.


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  O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.


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  For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD! 


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  They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!


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  Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,


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  The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!


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  I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. Zayin


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  Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.


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  to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.


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  Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us.


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  Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud. 


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  We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!


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  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.


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  For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong.


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  But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel! 


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  Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”


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  He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. 


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  Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.


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  It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.


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  Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. 


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  You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.


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  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.


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  nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!” 


