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\id GEN World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Genesis
\toc1 The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Genesis
\toc2 Genesis
\toc3 Gen
\mt2 The First Book of Moses,
\mt3 Commonly Called
\mt1 Genesis


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\p
\v 1 In the beginning, God\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* created the heavens and the earth.
\v 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
\p
\v 3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
\v 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
\v 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
\p
\v 6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
\v 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
\v 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
\p
\v 9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
\v 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
\v 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
\v 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
\v 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
\p
\v 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
\v 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
\v 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
\v 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
\v 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
\v 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
\p
\v 20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
\v 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
\v 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
\v 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
\p
\v 24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
\v 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
\p
\v 26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
\v 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
\v 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
\v 29 God said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:29 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
\v 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
\p
\v 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.


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\p
\v 1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
\p
\v 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
\v 3 The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
\v 4 The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
\v 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
\p
\v 6 The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
\v 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.
\v 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
\v 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
\v 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
\v 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
\v 12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
\v 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
\v 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
\p
\v 15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
\v 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
\v 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
\v 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
\v 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.
\v 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
\p
\v 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.
\v 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
\v 23 The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
\v 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
\v 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
\v 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
\v 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
\v 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
\v 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
\v 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
\v 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
\p
\v 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.


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\v 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
\v 2 As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
\v 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
\v 4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
\v 6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
\v 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
\v 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
\v 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
\p
\v 10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
\v 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
\v 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
\v 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
\v 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
\v 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
\v 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
\v 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
\v 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p
\v 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
\p
\v 27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
\v 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
\v 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
\v 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
\v 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
\v 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.


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\v 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
\v 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
\v 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
\p
\v 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
\v 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
\v 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
\p
\v 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” \f + \fr 12:7 \ft or, seed\f*
\p He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
\v 8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
\v 9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
\p
\v 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
\v 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
\v 12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
\v 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
\p
\v 14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
\v 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
\v 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
\v 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
\v 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?
\v 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
\p
\v 20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.


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\v 1 Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
\v 2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
\v 3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
\v 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
\v 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
\v 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
\v 7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
\v 8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
\v 9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
\p
\v 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
\v 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.
\v 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
\v 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
\p
\v 14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
\v 15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
\v 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
\v 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
\p
\v 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.


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\v 1 In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,
\v 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).
\v 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
\v 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
\v 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
\v 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
\v 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
\v 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim
\v 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
\v 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.
\v 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
\v 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
\p
\v 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
\v 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.
\v 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
\v 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
\p
\v 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
\v 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
\v 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
\v 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
\p Abram gave him a tenth of all.
\p
\v 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”
\p
\v 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
\v 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
\v 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”


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\v 1 After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
\p
\v 2 Abram said, “Lord\f + \fr 15:2 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.\f* Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
\v 3 Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
\p
\v 4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
\v 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
\v 6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
\v 7 He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
\p
\v 8 He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
\p
\v 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
\v 10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
\v 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
\p
\v 12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
\v 13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
\v 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
\v 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
\v 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
\v 17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
\v 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
\v 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
\v 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
\v 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
\v 2 Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
\v 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
\v 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
\v 5 Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
\p
\v 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
\p
\v 7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
\v 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”
\p She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
\v 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
\v 11 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
\v 12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
\p
\v 13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
\v 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.\f + \fr 16:14 \ft Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.\f* Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
\p
\v 15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
\v 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.


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\c 17
\p
\v 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
\v 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
\p
\v 3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
\v 4 “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
\v 5 Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
\v 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
\v 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
\v 8 I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
\p
\v 9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
\v 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
\v 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
\v 12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
\v 13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
\v 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
\p
\v 15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
\v 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
\p
\v 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
\v 18 Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
\p
\v 19 God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.\f + \fr 17:19 \ft Isaac means “he laughs”.\f* I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
\v 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
\v 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
\p
\v 22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
\v 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
\v 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
\v 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
\v 26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
\v 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
\v 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
\v 3 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
\v 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
\v 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”
\p They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
\p
\v 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs\f + \fr 18:6 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
\v 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
\v 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
\p
\v 9 They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
\p He said, “There, in the tent.”
\p
\v 10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
\p Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
\v 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
\v 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
\p
\v 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
\v 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
\p
\v 15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.
\p He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
\p
\v 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
\v 17 Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
\v 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
\v 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
\v 20 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
\v 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
\p
\v 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
\v 23 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
\v 24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
\v 25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
\p
\v 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
\v 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
\v 28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?”
\p He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
\p
\v 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”
\p He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
\p
\v 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
\p He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
\p
\v 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”
\p He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
\p
\v 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”
\p He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
\p
\v 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.


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\v 1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
\v 2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.”
\p They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
\p
\v 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
\v 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
\v 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
\p
\v 6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
\v 7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
\v 8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
\p
\v 9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
\v 10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
\v 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
\p
\v 12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
\v 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
\p
\v 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!”
\p But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
\v 15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
\v 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
\v 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
\p
\v 18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
\v 19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
\v 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
\p
\v 21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
\v 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.\f + \fr 19:22 \ft Zoar means “little”. \f*
\p
\v 23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
\v 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
\v 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
\v 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
\p
\v 27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
\v 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
\p
\v 29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
\p
\v 30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
\v 31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
\v 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
\v 33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
\v 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
\v 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
\v 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
\v 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
\v 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.


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\v 1 The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
\v 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
\v 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
\p
\v 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh\f + \fr 2:4 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* God made the earth and the heavens.
\v 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
\v 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
\v 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
\v 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
\v 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
\v 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.
\v 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
\v 12 and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium\f + \fr 2:12 \ft or, aromatic resin\f* and onyx stone are also there.
\v 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
\v 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
\v 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
\v 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
\v 17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
\p
\v 18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to\f + \fr 2:18 \ft or, suitable for, or appropriate for.\f* him.”
\v 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
\v 20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.
\v 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
\v 22 Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
\v 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
\v 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
\v 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.


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\v 1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
\v 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
\v 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
\p
\v 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
\v 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
\p
\v 6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
\v 7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
\p
\v 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
\v 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
\v 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
\p
\v 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
\v 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
\v 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
\p
\v 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
\v 15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
\v 16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
\p
\v 17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
\v 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.


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\v 1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
\v 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
\v 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. \f + \fr 21:3 \ft Isaac means “He laughs”.\f*
\v 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
\v 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
\v 6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
\v 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
\p
\v 8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
\v 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
\v 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
\p
\v 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
\v 12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
\v 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
\v 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
\v 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
\v 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
\v 17 God heard the voice of the boy.
\p The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
\v 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
\p
\v 19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
\v 20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.
\v 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
\v 23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
\p
\v 24 Abraham said, “I will swear.”
\v 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
\v 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
\p
\v 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
\v 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
\v 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
\p
\v 30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
\v 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,\f + \fr 21:31 \ft Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.\f* because they both swore an oath there.
\v 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
\v 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
\v 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.


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\p
\v 1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\v 2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
\p
\v 3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
\v 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
\v 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”
\v 6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
\v 7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?”
\p He said, “Here I am, my son.”
\p He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
\p
\v 8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.
\v 9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
\v 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
\p
\v 11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\v 12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
\p
\v 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
\v 14 Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”.\f + \fr 22:14 \ft or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing\f* As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
\p
\v 15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
\v 16 and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
\v 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
\v 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”
\p
\v 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
\p
\v 20 After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
\v 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
\v 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
\v 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
\v 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.


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\p
\v 1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
\v 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
\v 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
\v 4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
\p
\v 5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
\v 6 “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
\p
\v 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
\v 8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
\v 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”
\p
\v 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
\v 11 “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
\p
\v 12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
\v 13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”
\p
\v 14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
\v 15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver\f + \fr 23:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.\f* between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
\p
\v 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
\p
\v 17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
\v 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
\v 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
\v 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.


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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
\v 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
\v 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
\v 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
\p
\v 5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
\p
\v 6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
\v 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
\v 8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”
\p
\v 9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
\v 10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
\v 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
\v 12 He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
\v 13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
\v 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
\p
\v 15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
\v 16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
\v 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
\p
\v 18 She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.
\v 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”
\v 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
\p
\v 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
\v 22 As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel\f + \fr 24:22 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
\v 23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”
\p
\v 24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
\v 25 She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”
\p
\v 26 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.
\v 27 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
\p
\v 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.
\v 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
\v 30 When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
\v 31 He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”
\p
\v 32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
\v 33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.”
\p Laban said, “Speak on.”
\p
\v 34 He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
\v 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
\v 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
\v 37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
\v 38 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
\v 39 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
\v 40 He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
\v 41 Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’
\v 42 I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—
\v 43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
\v 44 then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
\v 45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
\v 46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
\v 47 I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
\v 48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
\v 49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
\p
\v 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
\v 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”
\p
\v 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
\v 53 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
\v 54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
\p
\v 55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
\p
\v 56 He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
\p
\v 57 They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”
\v 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
\p She said, “I will go.”
\p
\v 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.
\v 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
\p
\v 61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
\v 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
\v 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.
\v 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.
\v 65 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?”
\p The servant said, “It is my master.”
\p She took her veil, and covered herself.
\v 66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
\v 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.


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\c 25
\p
\v 1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
\v 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
\v 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
\v 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
\v 5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
\v 6 but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.
\v 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
\v 8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
\v 9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre,
\v 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
\v 11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
\p
\v 12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
\v 13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
\v 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
\v 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
\v 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
\v 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
\v 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
\p
\v 19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
\v 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
\v 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
\v 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.
\v 23 Yahweh said to her,
\q1 “Two nations are in your womb.
\q1 Two peoples will be separated from your body.
\q1 The one people will be stronger than the other people.
\q1 The elder will serve the younger.”
\p
\v 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
\v 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
\v 26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
\p
\v 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
\v 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
\v 29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
\v 30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.\f + \fr 25:30 \ft “Edom” means “red”.\f*
\p
\v 31 Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
\p
\v 32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
\p
\v 33 Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
\p He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
\v 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.


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\p
\v 1 There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
\v 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
\v 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
\v 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
\v 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
\p
\v 6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
\v 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
\v 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
\v 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’”
\p Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
\p
\v 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
\p
\v 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
\p
\v 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
\v 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
\v 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
\v 15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
\v 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
\p
\v 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
\p
\v 18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
\v 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
\v 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
\v 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
\v 22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
\p
\v 23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
\v 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
\p
\v 25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
\p
\v 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
\v 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
\p
\v 28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
\v 29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
\p
\v 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
\v 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
\v 32 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
\v 33 He called it “Shibah”.\f + \fr 26:33 \ft Shibah means “oath” or “seven”.\f* Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba”\f + \fr 26:33 \ft Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven”\f* to this day.
\p
\v 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
\v 35 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.


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\p
\v 1 When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?”
\p He said to him, “Here I am.”
\p
\v 2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
\v 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
\v 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
\p
\v 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
\v 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
\v 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’
\v 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
\v 9 Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
\v 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
\p
\v 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
\v 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
\p
\v 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
\p
\v 14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
\v 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
\v 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
\v 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
\p
\v 18 He came to his father, and said, “My father?”
\p He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
\p
\v 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
\p
\v 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”
\p He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”
\p
\v 21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
\p
\v 22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
\v 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
\v 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?”
\p He said, “I am.”
\p
\v 25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”
\p He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
\v 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
\v 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,
\q1 “Behold, the smell of my son
\q2 is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
\q1
\v 28 God give you of the dew of the sky,
\q2 of the fatness of the earth,
\q2 and plenty of grain and new wine.
\q1
\v 29 Let peoples serve you,
\q2 and nations bow down to you.
\q1 Be lord over your brothers.
\q2 Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
\q1 Cursed be everyone who curses you.
\q2 Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
\p
\v 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
\v 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”
\p
\v 32 Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”
\p He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
\p
\v 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
\p
\v 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
\p
\v 35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
\p
\v 36 He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
\p
\v 37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
\p
\v 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
\p
\v 39 Isaac his father answered him,
\q1 “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth,
\q1 and of the dew of the sky from above.
\q1
\v 40 You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother.
\q1 It will happen, when you will break loose,
\q1 that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
\p
\v 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
\p
\v 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
\v 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
\v 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
\v 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
\p
\v 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”


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\p
\v 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
\v 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
\v 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
\v 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
\p
\v 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
\p
\v 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
\v 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
\v 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
\v 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
\p
\v 10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
\v 11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
\v 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
\v 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
\v 14 Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
\v 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
\p
\v 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
\v 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
\p
\v 18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
\v 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
\v 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
\v 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
\v 22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”


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\p
\v 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
\v 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
\v 3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.
\v 4 Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?”
\p They said, “We are from Haran.”
\p
\v 5 He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?”
\p They said, “We know him.”
\p
\v 6 He said to them, “Is it well with him?”
\p They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
\p
\v 7 He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
\p
\v 8 They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”
\p
\v 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
\v 10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
\v 11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
\v 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
\p
\v 13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
\v 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
\v 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
\p
\v 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
\v 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
\v 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
\p
\v 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
\p
\v 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
\p
\v 21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
\p
\v 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
\v 23 In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
\v 24 Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
\v 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
\p
\v 26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
\v 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
\p
\v 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
\v 29 Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
\v 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
\p
\v 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
\v 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
\v 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.
\v 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
\v 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.


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\p
\v 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
\p
\v 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
\v 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
\p
\v 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
\v 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
\p
\v 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
\v 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
\v 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
\p
\v 10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
\p
\v 11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
\p
\v 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
\p
\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
\p The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent,
\q1 “Because you have done this,
\q2 you are cursed above all livestock,
\q2 and above every animal of the field.
\q1 You shall go on your belly
\q2 and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
\q1
\v 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
\q2 and between your offspring and her offspring.
\q1 He will bruise your head,
\q2 and you will bruise his heel.”
\p
\v 16 To the woman he said,
\q1 “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
\q2 You will bear children in pain.
\q1 Your desire will be for your husband,
\q2 and he will rule over you.”
\p
\v 17 To Adam he said,
\q1 “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
\q2 and ate from the tree,
\q2 about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’
\q2 the ground is cursed for your sake.
\q1 You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
\q2
\v 18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
\q2 and you will eat the herb of the field.
\q1
\v 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,
\q2 for you were taken out of it.
\q1 For you are dust,
\q2 and you shall return to dust.”
\p
\v 20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
\v 21 Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
\p
\v 22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
\v 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
\v 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim\f + \fr 3:24 \ft cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.\f* at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.


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\p
\v 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
\p
\v 2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
\p
\v 3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
\v 4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
\v 5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
\v 6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
\v 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
\v 8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
\p
\v 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
\v 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
\v 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
\v 12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
\v 13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
\p
\v 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
\p
\v 15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”
\p Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
\p
\v 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”
\p He lay with her that night.
\v 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
\v 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
\v 19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
\v 20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.
\v 21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
\p
\v 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
\v 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
\v 24 She named him Joseph,\f + \fr 30:24 \ft Joseph means “may he add”.\f* saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
\p
\v 25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
\v 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
\p
\v 27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
\v 28 He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
\p
\v 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
\v 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
\p
\v 31 Laban said, “What shall I give you?”
\p Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
\v 32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
\v 33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”
\p
\v 34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
\p
\v 35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
\v 36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
\p
\v 37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
\v 38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
\v 39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
\v 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
\v 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
\v 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
\v 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.


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\p
\v 1 Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
\v 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
\v 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
\p
\v 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
\v 5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
\v 6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
\v 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
\v 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
\v 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
\v 10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
\v 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
\v 12 He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
\v 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
\p
\v 14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
\v 15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
\v 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
\p
\v 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
\v 18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
\v 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim \f + \fr 31:19 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* that were her father’s.
\p
\v 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
\v 21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
\p
\v 22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
\v 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
\v 24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
\p
\v 25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
\v 26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
\v 27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
\v 28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
\v 29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
\v 30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
\p
\v 31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
\v 32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
\p
\v 33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
\v 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
\v 35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
\p
\v 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
\v 37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
\p
\v 38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
\v 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
\v 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
\v 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
\v 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
\p
\v 43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
\v 44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
\p
\v 45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
\v 46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
\v 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,\f + \fr 31:47 \ft “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.\f* but Jacob called it Galeed.\f + \fr 31:47 \ft “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.\f*
\v 48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
\v 49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
\v 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
\v 51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
\v 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
\v 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
\v 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
\v 55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.


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\p
\v 1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
\v 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
\p
\v 3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
\v 4 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
\v 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
\v 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
\v 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
\v 8 and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
\v 9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
\v 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
\v 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
\v 12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
\p
\v 13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:
\v 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
\v 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
\v 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
\v 17 He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
\v 18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
\v 19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
\v 20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
\p
\v 21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
\p
\v 22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
\v 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
\v 24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
\v 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
\v 26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.”
\p Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
\p
\v 27 He said to him, “What is your name?”
\p He said, “Jacob”.
\p
\v 28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
\p
\v 29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”
\p He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.
\p
\v 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel;\f + \fr 32:30 \ft Peniel means “face of God”.\f* for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
\v 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
\v 32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.


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\c 33
\p
\v 1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.
\v 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
\v 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
\p
\v 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
\v 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?”
\p He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
\v 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
\v 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
\p
\v 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”
\p Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
\p
\v 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
\p
\v 10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
\v 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
\p
\v 12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”
\p
\v 13 Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
\v 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
\p
\v 15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.”
\p He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
\p
\v 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
\v 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.\f + \fr 33:17 \ft succoth means shelters or booths.\f*
\p
\v 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
\v 19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
\v 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.\f + \fr 33:20 \ft El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty”. \f*


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\p
\v 1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
\v 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
\v 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
\v 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
\p
\v 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
\v 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
\v 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.
\v 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
\v 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
\v 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
\p
\v 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
\v 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
\p
\v 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
\v 14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
\v 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
\v 16 then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
\v 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister,\f + \fr 34:17 \ft Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”\f* and we will be gone.”
\p
\v 18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
\v 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
\v 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
\v 21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
\v 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
\v 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
\p
\v 24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
\v 25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
\v 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
\v 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
\v 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
\v 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
\v 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
\p
\v 31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”


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\p
\v 1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
\p
\v 2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
\v 3 Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
\p
\v 4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
\v 5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
\v 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
\v 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
\v 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
\p
\v 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
\v 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
\v 11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
\v 12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”
\p
\v 13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
\v 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
\v 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
\p
\v 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
\v 17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
\p
\v 18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni,\f + \fr 35:18 \ft “Benoni” means “son of my trouble”.\f* but his father named him Benjamin.\f + \fr 35:18 \ft “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand”.\f*
\v 19 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
\v 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
\v 21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
\v 22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
\p Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
\v 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
\v 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
\v 25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
\v 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
\v 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
\p
\v 28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
\v 29 Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.


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\p
\v 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
\v 2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
\v 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
\v 4 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
\v 5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
\v 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
\v 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
\v 8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
\p
\v 9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
\v 10 these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
\v 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
\v 12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife.
\v 13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
\v 14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
\p
\v 15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
\v 16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.
\v 17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
\v 18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
\v 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
\p
\v 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
\v 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
\v 22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
\v 23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
\v 24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
\v 25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
\v 26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
\v 27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
\v 28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
\v 29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
\v 30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
\p
\v 31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
\v 32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
\v 33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
\v 34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
\v 35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
\v 36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
\v 37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
\v 38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
\v 39 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
\p
\v 40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
\v 41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
\v 42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
\v 43 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.


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\p
\v 1 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
\v 2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
\v 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
\v 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
\p
\v 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
\v 6 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
\v 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
\p
\v 8 His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
\v 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
\v 10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”
\v 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
\p
\v 12 His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
\v 13 Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
\p
\v 14 He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
\v 15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
\p
\v 16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
\p
\v 17 The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”
\p Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
\v 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
\v 19 They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
\v 20 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
\p
\v 21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
\v 22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
\v 23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;
\v 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
\p
\v 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
\v 26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
\v 27 Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
\v 28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
\p
\v 29 Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
\v 30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
\v 31 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
\v 32 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
\p
\v 33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”
\v 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
\v 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol\f + \fr 37:35 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
\v 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.


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\p
\v 1 At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
\v 2 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
\v 3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
\v 4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
\v 5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
\v 6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
\v 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.
\v 8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
\v 9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
\v 10 The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.
\v 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
\p
\v 12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
\v 13 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
\v 14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
\v 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
\v 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.
\p She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
\p
\v 17 He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”
\p She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
\p
\v 18 He said, “What pledge will I give you?”
\p She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
\p He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
\v 19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
\v 20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
\v 21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”
\p They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
\p
\v 22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
\v 23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
\p
\v 24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.”
\p Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
\v 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
\p
\v 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.”
\p He knew her again no more.
\v 27 In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
\v 28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
\v 29 As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.\f + \fr 38:29 \ft Perez means “breaking out”.\f*
\v 30 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.\f + \fr 38:30 \ft Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness”. \f*


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\c 39
\p
\v 1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
\v 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
\v 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
\v 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
\v 5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
\v 6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
\p Joseph was well-built and handsome.
\v 7 After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
\p
\v 8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
\v 9 No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
\p
\v 10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
\v 11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
\v 12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!”
\p He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
\v 13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
\v 14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
\v 15 When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
\v 16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
\v 17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
\v 18 and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
\p
\v 19 When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.
\v 20 Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
\v 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
\v 22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.
\v 23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.


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\p
\v 1 The man knew\f + \fr 4:1 \ft or, lay with, or, had relations with\f* Eve his wife. She conceived,\f + \fr 4:1 \ft or, became pregnant\f* and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
\v 2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
\v 3 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
\v 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
\v 5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
\v 6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
\v 7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
\v 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?”
\p He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
\p
\v 10 Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
\v 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
\v 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
\p
\v 13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
\v 14 Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
\p
\v 15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
\p
\v 16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
\v 17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
\v 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
\v 19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
\v 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
\v 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
\v 22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah.
\v 23 Lamech said to his wives,
\q1 “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.
\q2 You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech,
\q1 for I have slain a man for wounding me,
\q2 a young man for bruising me.
\q1
\v 24 If Cain will be avenged seven times,
\q2 truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
\p
\v 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”
\v 26 A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.


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\v 1 After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
\v 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
\v 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
\v 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
\v 5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
\v 6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
\v 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
\p
\v 8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.”
\p Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”
\p
\v 9 The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
\v 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
\v 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
\p
\v 12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
\v 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
\v 14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
\v 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
\p
\v 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
\v 17 In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
\p
\v 18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
\v 19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
\v 20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
\v 21 He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
\v 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
\v 23 Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.


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\v 1 At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
\v 2 Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
\v 3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
\v 4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
\v 5 He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
\v 6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
\v 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
\v 8 In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
\p
\v 9 Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
\v 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.
\v 11 We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.
\v 12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.
\v 13 As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
\p
\v 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
\v 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
\p
\v 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
\p
\v 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;
\v 18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
\v 19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
\v 20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
\v 21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
\v 22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;
\v 23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
\v 24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
\p
\v 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
\v 26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
\v 27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
\v 28 That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
\v 29 Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.
\v 30 Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
\v 31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
\v 32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
\p
\v 33 “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
\v 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
\v 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
\v 36 The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”
\p
\v 37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
\v 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
\v 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
\v 40 You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
\v 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
\v 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
\v 43 He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
\v 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
\v 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
\v 47 In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
\v 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.
\v 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
\v 50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
\v 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,\f + \fr 41:51 \ft “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”.\f* “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
\v 52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim:\f + \fr 41:52 \ft “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.\f* “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
\p
\v 53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
\v 54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
\v 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”
\v 56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
\v 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.


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\v 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
\v 2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
\v 3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
\v 4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
\v 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
\v 6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
\v 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?”
\p They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
\p
\v 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
\v 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
\p
\v 10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
\v 11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
\p
\v 12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
\p
\v 13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
\p
\v 14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
\v 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
\v 16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
\v 17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
\p
\v 18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
\v 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
\v 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.”
\p They did so.
\v 21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
\v 22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
\v 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
\v 24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
\v 25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
\p
\v 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
\v 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
\v 28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
\v 29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
\v 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
\v 31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
\v 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
\v 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
\v 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”
\p
\v 35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
\v 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
\p
\v 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
\p
\v 38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”\f + \fr 42:38 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*


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\v 1 The famine was severe in the land.
\v 2 When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
\p
\v 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
\v 4 If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
\v 5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
\p
\v 6 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
\p
\v 7 They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”
\p
\v 8 Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
\v 9 I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;
\v 10 for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”
\p
\v 11 Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
\v 12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
\v 13 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
\v 14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
\p
\v 15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
\v 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”
\p
\v 17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.
\v 18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
\v 19 They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
\v 20 and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
\v 21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
\v 22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”
\p
\v 23 He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.
\v 24 The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
\v 25 They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
\p
\v 26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.
\v 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
\p
\v 28 They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.
\v 29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
\v 30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
\v 31 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”
\p
\v 32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
\v 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.
\v 34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.


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\v 1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
\v 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
\v 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
\v 4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
\v 5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
\v 6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
\p
\v 7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
\v 8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
\v 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
\p
\v 10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
\p
\v 11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
\v 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
\v 13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
\p
\v 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
\v 15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
\p
\v 16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
\p
\v 17 He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
\p
\v 18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
\v 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
\v 20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
\v 21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
\v 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
\v 23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
\v 24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
\v 25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
\v 26 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
\v 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
\v 28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
\v 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’\f + \fr 44:29 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\v 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
\v 31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.\f + \fr 44:31 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\v 32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
\v 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
\v 34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”


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\v 1 Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
\v 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
\v 3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?”
\p His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
\v 4 Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.”
\p They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
\v 5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
\v 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
\v 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
\v 8 So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
\v 9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.
\v 10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
\v 11 There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’
\v 12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
\v 13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”
\v 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
\v 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
\p
\v 16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
\v 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
\v 18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
\v 19 Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
\v 20 Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”
\p
\v 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
\v 22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
\v 23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
\v 24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
\p
\v 25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
\v 26 They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.
\v 27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
\v 28 Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”


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\v 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
\v 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\v 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
\v 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
\p
\v 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
\v 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,
\v 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
\p
\v 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
\v 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
\v 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
\v 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\v 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
\v 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
\v 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
\v 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
\v 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
\v 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
\v 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
\v 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
\v 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
\v 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
\v 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
\v 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
\v 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
\v 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
\v 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
\v 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
\p
\v 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
\v 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
\v 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
\p
\v 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
\v 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
\v 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
\v 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”


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\v 1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
\v 2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
\v 3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”
\p They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
\v 4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
\p
\v 5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
\v 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
\p
\v 7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
\v 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
\p
\v 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
\v 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
\p
\v 11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
\v 12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
\p
\v 13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
\v 14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
\v 15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”
\p
\v 16 Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”
\p
\v 17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
\v 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
\v 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
\p
\v 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.
\v 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
\v 22 Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.
\v 23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
\v 24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
\p
\v 25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
\p
\v 26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
\p
\v 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
\v 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
\v 29 The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
\v 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.”
\p Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”
\p
\v 31 Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.


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\v 1 After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
\v 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
\v 3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
\v 4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
\v 5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
\v 6 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
\v 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”
\p
\v 8 Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
\p
\v 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.”
\p He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
\v 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
\v 11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
\v 12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
\v 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.
\v 14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
\v 15 He blessed Joseph, and said,
\q1 “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
\q1 the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
\q1
\v 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
\q1 and let my name be named on them,
\q1 and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.
\q1 Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
\p
\v 17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
\v 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
\p
\v 19 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
\v 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
\v 21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
\v 22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”


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\v 1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
\q1
\v 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
\q2 Listen to Israel, your father.
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength;
\q2 excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
\q1
\v 4 Boiling over like water, you shall not excel;
\q2 because you went up to your father’s bed,
\q2 then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers.
\q2 Their swords are weapons of violence.
\q1
\v 6 My soul, don’t come into their council.
\q2 My glory, don’t be united to their assembly;
\q1 for in their anger they killed men.
\q2 In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
\q1
\v 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
\q2 and their wrath, for it was cruel.
\q1 I will divide them in Jacob,
\q2 and scatter them in Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you.
\q2 Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
\q2 Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
\q1
\v 9 Judah is a lion’s cub.
\q2 From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
\q1 He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
\q2 as a lioness.
\q2 Who will rouse him up?
\q1
\v 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,
\q2 nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
\q1 until he comes to whom it belongs.
\q2 To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
\q1
\v 11 Binding his foal to the vine,
\q2 his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
\q1 he has washed his garments in wine,
\q2 his robes in the blood of grapes.
\q1
\v 12 His eyes will be red with wine,
\q2 his teeth white with milk.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
\q2 He will be for a haven of ships.
\q2 His border will be on Sidon.
\b
\q1
\v 14 “Issachar is a strong donkey,
\q2 lying down between the saddlebags.
\q1
\v 15 He saw a resting place, that it was good,
\q2 the land, that it was pleasant.
\q1 He bows his shoulder to the burden,
\q2 and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
\b
\q1
\v 16 “Dan will judge his people,
\q2 as one of the tribes of Israel.
\q1
\v 17 Dan will be a serpent on the trail,
\q2 an adder in the path,
\q1 that bites the horse’s heels,
\q2 so that his rider falls backward.
\q1
\v 18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “A troop will press on Gad,
\q2 but he will press on their heel.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Asher’s food will be rich.
\q2 He will produce royal dainties.
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Naphtali is a doe set free,
\q2 who bears beautiful fawns.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “Joseph is a fruitful vine,
\q2 a fruitful vine by a spring.
\q2 His branches run over the wall.
\q1
\v 23 The archers have severely grieved him,
\q2 shot at him, and persecuted him:
\q1
\v 24 But his bow remained strong.
\q2 The arms of his hands were made strong,
\q2 by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
\q2 (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
\q1
\v 25 even by the God of your father, who will help you,
\q2 by the Almighty, who will bless you,
\q1 with blessings of heaven above,
\q2 blessings of the deep that lies below,
\q2 blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
\q1
\v 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,
\q2 above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
\q1 They will be on the head of Joseph,
\q2 on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
\b
\q1
\v 27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
\q2 In the morning he will devour the prey.
\q2 At evening he will divide the plunder.”
\p
\v 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
\v 29 He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
\v 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
\v 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
\v 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
\v 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.


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\v 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
\v 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.\f + \fr 5:2 \ft “Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.\f*
\v 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
\v 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
\p
\v 6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.
\v 7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 8 All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
\p
\v 9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
\v 10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 11 All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
\p
\v 12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.
\v 13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
\v 14 and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
\p
\v 15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
\v 16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 17 All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
\p
\v 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.
\v 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 20 All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
\p
\v 21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
\v 22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\v 23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
\v 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
\p
\v 25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.
\v 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
\p
\v 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.
\v 29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
\v 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\v 31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
\p
\v 32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.


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\v 1 Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
\v 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
\v 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
\p
\v 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
\v 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
\p
\v 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
\p
\v 7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
\v 8 All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
\v 9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
\v 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
\v 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
\v 12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
\v 13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
\v 14 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
\p
\v 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
\v 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,
\v 17 ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
\v 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
\v 19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
\v 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
\v 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
\p
\v 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
\v 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
\v 24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
\v 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
\v 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.


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\v 1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
\v 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
\v 3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
\v 4 The Nephilim\f + \fr 6:4 \ft or, giants\f* were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
\p
\v 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
\v 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
\v 7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
\v 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
\p
\v 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
\v 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
\v 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
\v 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
\p
\v 13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
\v 14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
\v 15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits,\f + \fr 6:15 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
\v 16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
\v 17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
\v 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
\v 19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
\v 20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
\v 21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
\v 22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
\v 2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
\v 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
\v 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
\p
\v 5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
\p
\v 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
\v 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
\v 8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
\v 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
\v 10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
\v 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
\v 12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
\p
\v 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
\v 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
\v 15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
\v 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
\v 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
\v 18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
\v 19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
\v 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits\f + \fr 7:20 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* higher, and the mountains were covered.
\v 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
\v 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
\v 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
\v 24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.


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\v 1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
\v 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
\v 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
\v 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
\v 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
\p
\v 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
\v 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
\v 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
\v 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
\v 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
\v 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
\v 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
\p
\v 13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
\v 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
\p
\v 15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
\v 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
\v 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
\p
\v 18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
\v 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
\p
\v 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
\v 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
\v 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”


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\v 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
\v 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
\v 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
\v 4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
\v 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
\v 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
\v 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
\p
\v 8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
\v 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
\v 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
\v 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
\v 12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
\v 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
\v 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
\v 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
\v 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
\v 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
\p
\v 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
\v 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
\p
\v 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
\v 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
\v 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
\v 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
\v 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
\v 25 He said,
\q1 “Canaan is cursed.
\q2 He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
\p
\v 26 He said,
\q1 “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
\q2 Let Canaan be his servant.
\q1
\v 27 May God enlarge Japheth.
\q2 Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
\q2 Let Canaan be his servant.”
\p
\v 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
\v 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.


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\v 1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
\v 2 on the third day, behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.
\p
\v 3 David said to him, “Where do you come from?”
\p He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.”
\p
\v 4 David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.”
\p He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
\p
\v 5 David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
\p
\v 6 The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him.
\v 7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’
\v 8 He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
\v 9 He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’
\v 10 So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”
\p
\v 11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
\v 12 They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.
\v 13 David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?”
\p He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.”
\p
\v 14 David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
\v 15 David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.
\v 16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”
\p
\v 17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
\v 18 (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
\q1
\v 19 “Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places!
\q2 How the mighty have fallen!
\q1
\v 20 Don’t tell it in Gath.
\q2 Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon,
\q1 lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
\q2 lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
\q1
\v 21 You mountains of Gilboa,
\q2 let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings;
\q2 For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away,
\q2 The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
\q1
\v 22 From the blood of the slain,
\q2 from the fat of the mighty,
\q2 Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back.
\q2 Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
\q1
\v 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives.
\q2 In their death, they were not divided.
\q1 They were swifter than eagles.
\q2 They were stronger than lions.
\q1
\v 24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
\q2 who clothed you delicately in scarlet,
\q2 who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
\q1
\v 25 How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle!
\q2 Jonathan was slain on your high places.
\q1
\v 26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan.
\q2 You have been very pleasant to me.
\q2 Your love to me was wonderful,
\q2 passing the love of women.
\q1
\v 27 How the mighty have fallen,
\q2 and the weapons of war have perished!”


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\v 1 After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
\v 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
\p
\v 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
\p
\v 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
\v 5 When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
\p
\v 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
\v 7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
\v 8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
\v 9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
\v 10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
\v 11 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
\v 12 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
\v 13 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
\v 14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
\v 15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
\v 16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
\v 17 David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
\v 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
\v 19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.


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\v 1 At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
\v 2 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
\v 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
\p
\v 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
\v 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
\p
\v 6 David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
\v 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
\v 8 David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
\v 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.
\v 10 When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
\p
\v 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
\p
\v 12 David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
\v 13 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
\v 14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
\v 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
\p
\v 16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
\v 17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
\v 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
\v 19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
\v 20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
\v 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
\p
\v 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
\v 23 The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
\v 24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
\p
\v 25 Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
\p
\v 26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
\v 27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.


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\v 1 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
\v 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
\v 3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.
\v 4 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
\p
\v 5 David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
\v 6 He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”
\p
\v 7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
\v 8 I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
\v 9 Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
\v 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
\p
\v 11 “This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
\v 12 For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
\p
\v 13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.”
\p Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
\v 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
\v 15 Nathan departed to his house.
\p Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
\v 16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.
\v 17 The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
\v 18 On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”
\p
\v 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”
\p They said, “He is dead.”
\p
\v 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.
\v 21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
\p
\v 22 He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
\v 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
\p
\v 24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
\v 25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah,\f + \fr 12:25 \ft “Jedidiah” means “loved by Yahweh”.\f* for Yahweh’s sake.
\p
\v 26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
\v 27 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.
\v 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”
\p
\v 29 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
\v 30 He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent\f + \fr 12:30 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.
\v 31 He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.


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\c 13
\p
\v 1 After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
\v 2 Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
\v 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
\v 4 He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?”
\p Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
\p
\v 5 Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’”
\p
\v 6 So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”
\p
\v 7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”
\v 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
\v 9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.
\v 10 Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.
\v 11 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”
\p
\v 12 She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.
\v 13 As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
\p
\v 14 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
\v 15 Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
\p
\v 16 She said to him, “Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!”
\p But he would not listen to her.
\v 17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, “Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.”
\p
\v 18 She had a garment of various colors on her; for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her.
\v 19 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
\v 20 Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.”
\p So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.
\v 21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
\v 22 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
\v 23 After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
\v 24 Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”
\p
\v 25 The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.
\p
\v 26 Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.”
\p The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”
\p
\v 27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.
\v 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
\p
\v 29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
\v 30 While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!”
\p
\v 31 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
\v 32 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
\v 33 Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.”
\v 34 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.
\v 35 Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons are coming! It is as your servant said.”
\v 36 As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.
\v 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
\v 38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
\v 39 King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.


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\c 14
\p
\v 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
\v 2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
\v 3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
\p
\v 4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
\p
\v 5 The king said to her, “What ails you?”
\p She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
\v 6 Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
\v 7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
\p
\v 8 The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”
\p
\v 9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
\p
\v 10 The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”
\p
\v 11 Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.”
\p He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
\p
\v 12 Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.”
\p He said, “Say on.”
\p
\v 13 The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
\v 14 For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
\v 15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
\v 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
\v 17 Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”
\p
\v 18 Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.”
\p The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
\p
\v 19 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”
\p The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
\v 20 Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
\p
\v 21 The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
\p
\v 22 Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”
\p
\v 23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
\v 24 The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.
\v 25 Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
\v 26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels,\f + \fr 14:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 200 shekels is about 2 kilograms or about 4.4 pounds.\f* after the king’s weight.
\v 27 Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.
\v 28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.
\v 29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
\v 30 Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
\p
\v 31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
\p
\v 32 Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
\p
\v 33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.


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\c 15
\p
\v 1 After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
\v 2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?”
\p He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
\p
\v 3 Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
\v 4 Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
\v 5 It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
\v 6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
\v 7 At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
\v 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 9 The king said to him, “Go in peace.”
\p So he arose, and went to Hebron.
\v 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”
\p
\v 11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.
\v 12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
\v 13 A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
\p
\v 14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
\p
\v 15 The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
\p
\v 16 The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
\v 17 The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
\v 18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
\v 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.
\v 20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
\p
\v 21 Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
\p
\v 22 David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
\v 23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
\v 24 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.
\v 25 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
\v 26 but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
\v 27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
\v 28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
\v 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.
\v 30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
\p
\v 31 Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
\p David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
\p
\v 32 When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.
\v 33 David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;
\v 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’
\v 35 Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
\v 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
\p
\v 37 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
\v 2 The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?”
\p Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
\p
\v 3 The king said, “Where is your master’s son?”
\p Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”
\p
\v 4 Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.”
\p Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”
\p
\v 5 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.
\v 6 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
\v 7 Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
\v 8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
\p
\v 9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
\v 10 The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
\p
\v 11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
\v 12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
\v 13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
\v 14 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
\p
\v 15 Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
\v 16 When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
\p
\v 17 Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
\p
\v 18 Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.
\v 19 Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”
\p
\v 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”
\p
\v 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
\p
\v 22 So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
\v 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.


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\c 17
\p
\v 1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
\v 2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
\v 3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
\p
\v 4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
\v 5 Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”
\p
\v 6 When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”
\p
\v 7 Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
\v 8 Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
\v 9 Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’
\v 10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
\v 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
\v 12 So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.
\v 13 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”
\p
\v 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
\v 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
\v 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”
\p
\v 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
\v 18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
\v 19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
\v 20 Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”
\p The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.”
\p When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
\v 21 After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
\p
\v 22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
\v 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
\v 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
\v 25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
\v 26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
\v 27 When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
\v 28 brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,
\v 29 honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”


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\c 18
\p
\v 1 David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
\v 2 David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”
\p
\v 3 But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”
\p
\v 4 The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.”
\p The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
\v 5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
\p
\v 6 So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
\v 7 The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
\v 8 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
\v 9 Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
\v 10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
\p
\v 11 Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”
\p
\v 12 The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
\v 13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
\p
\v 14 Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
\v 15 Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
\v 16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
\v 17 They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
\v 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
\p
\v 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”
\p
\v 20 Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”
\p
\v 21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
\p
\v 22 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.”
\p Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?”
\p
\v 23 “But come what may,” he said, “I will run.”
\p He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.
\p
\v 24 Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
\v 25 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.
\p
\v 26 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!”
\p The king said, “He also brings news.”
\p
\v 27 The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.”
\p The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”
\p
\v 28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”
\p
\v 29 The king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?”
\p Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.”
\p
\v 30 The king said, “Come and stand here.” He came, and stood still.
\p
\v 31 Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”
\p
\v 32 The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?”
\p The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”
\p
\v 33 The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”


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\c 19
\p
\v 1 Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
\v 2 The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”
\p
\v 3 The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
\v 4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”
\p
\v 5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
\v 6 in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.
\v 7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”
\p
\v 8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
\v 9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
\v 10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”
\p
\v 11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.
\v 12 You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
\v 13 Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”
\v 14 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
\p
\v 15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
\v 16 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
\v 17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
\v 18 A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.
\v 19 He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
\v 20 For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
\p
\v 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”
\p
\v 22 David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”
\v 23 The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.
\p
\v 24 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
\v 25 When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
\p
\v 26 He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.
\v 27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.
\v 28 For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”
\p
\v 29 The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
\p
\v 30 Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”
\v 31 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
\v 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
\v 33 The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
\v 34 Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
\v 35 I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
\v 36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
\v 37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
\p
\v 38 The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”
\p
\v 39 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
\v 40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
\v 41 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
\p
\v 42 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”
\p
\v 43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”
\p Yahweh said to him, “Go up.”
\p David said, “Where shall I go up?”
\p He said, “To Hebron.”
\p
\v 2 So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
\v 3 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.
\v 4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
\v 5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
\v 6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
\v 7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”
\p
\v 8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
\v 9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
\v 10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
\v 11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
\v 12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
\v 13 Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
\v 14 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!”
\p Joab said, “Let them arise!”
\v 15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.
\v 16 They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.\f + \fr 2:16 \ft “Helkath Hazzurim” means “field of daggers”.\f*
\v 17 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
\v 18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
\v 19 Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
\v 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is that you, Asahel?”
\p He answered, “It is.”
\p
\v 21 Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.
\v 22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
\v 23 However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
\v 24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
\v 25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
\v 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
\p
\v 27 Joab said, “As God\f + \fr 2:27 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
\v 28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
\v 29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
\v 30 Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.
\v 31 But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
\v 32 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.


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\p
\v 1 There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
\p
\v 2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
\v 3 David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
\p
\v 4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
\p
\v 5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
\v 6 David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
\p
\v 7 Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
\v 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.
\v 9 Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
\v 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
\v 11 One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
\p
\v 12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
\v 13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
\v 14 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him.
\v 15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
\v 16 Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’”
\v 17 He came near to her; and the woman said, “Are you Joab?”
\p He answered, “I am.”
\p Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your servant.”
\p He answered, “I’m listening.”
\p
\v 18 Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter.
\v 19 I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
\p
\v 20 Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
\v 21 The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.”
\p The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
\p
\v 22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
\v 23 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,
\v 24 Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,
\v 25 Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests,
\v 26 and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.


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\p
\v 1 There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
\p
\v 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
\v 3 and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”
\p
\v 4 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.”
\p He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
\p
\v 5 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
\v 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.”
\p The king said, “I will give them.”
\p
\v 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
\v 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
\v 9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
\v 10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
\v 11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
\v 12 So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
\v 13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
\v 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
\p
\v 15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
\v 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.
\v 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
\p
\v 18 After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
\v 19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
\v 20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand, and six toes on every foot, twenty four in count; and he also was born to the giant.
\v 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
\v 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.


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\c 22
\p
\v 1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
\v 2 and he said:
\q1 “Yahweh is my rock,
\q2 my fortress,
\q2 and my deliverer, even mine;
\q1
\v 3 God is my rock in whom I take refuge;
\q2 my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
\q2 my high tower, and my refuge.
\q2 My savior, you save me from violence.
\q1
\v 4 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
\q2 So shall I be saved from my enemies.
\q1
\v 5 For the waves of death surrounded me.
\q2 The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
\q1
\v 6 The cords of Sheol\f + \fr 22:6 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* were around me.
\q2 The snares of death caught me.
\q1
\v 7 In my distress, I called on Yahweh.
\q2 Yes, I called to my God.
\q1 He heard my voice out of his temple.
\q2 My cry came into his ears.
\q1
\v 8 Then the earth shook and trembled.
\q2 The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken,
\q2 because he was angry.
\q1
\v 9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
\q2 Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
\q2 Coals were kindled by it.
\q1
\v 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
\q2 Thick darkness was under his feet.
\q1
\v 11 He rode on a cherub, and flew.
\q2 Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
\q1
\v 12 He made darkness a shelter around himself:
\q2 gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
\q1
\v 13 At the brightness before him,
\q2 coals of fire were kindled.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh thundered from heaven.
\q2 The Most High uttered his voice.
\q1
\v 15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them;
\q2 lightning, and confused them.
\q1
\v 16 Then the channels of the sea appeared.
\q2 The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke,
\q2 at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
\q1
\v 17 He sent from on high and he took me.
\q2 He drew me out of many waters.
\q1
\v 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
\q2 from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
\q1
\v 19 They came on me in the day of my calamity,
\q2 but Yahweh was my support.
\q1
\v 20 He also brought me out into a large place.
\q2 He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
\q1
\v 21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness.
\q2 He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
\q1
\v 22 For I have kept Yahweh’s ways,
\q2 and have not wickedly departed from my God.
\q1
\v 23 For all his ordinances were before me.
\q2 As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
\q1
\v 24 I was also perfect toward him.
\q2 I kept myself from my iniquity.
\q1
\v 25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
\q2 According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
\q1
\v 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
\q2 With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
\q2
\v 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure.
\q2 With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
\q1
\v 28 You will save the afflicted people,
\q2 But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
\q1
\v 29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
\q2 Yahweh will light up my darkness.
\q1
\v 30 For by you, I run against a troop.
\q2 By my God, I leap over a wall.
\q1
\v 31 As for God, his way is perfect.
\q2 Yahweh’s word is tested.
\q2 He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
\q1
\v 32 For who is God, besides Yahweh?
\q2 Who is a rock, besides our God?
\q1
\v 33 God is my strong fortress.
\q2 He makes my way perfect.
\q1
\v 34 He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
\q2 and sets me on my high places.
\q1
\v 35 He teaches my hands to war,
\q2 so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
\q1
\v 36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
\q2 Your gentleness has made me great.
\q1
\v 37 You have enlarged my steps under me.
\q2 My feet have not slipped.
\q1
\v 38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them.
\q2 I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
\q1
\v 39 I have consumed them,
\q2 and struck them through,
\q2 so that they can’t arise.
\q2 Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
\q1
\v 40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle.
\q2 You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
\q1
\v 41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
\q2 that I might cut off those who hate me.
\q1
\v 42 They looked, but there was no one to save;
\q2 even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
\q1
\v 43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth.
\q2 I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
\q1
\v 44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
\q2 You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
\q2 A people whom I have not known will serve me.
\q1
\v 45 The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
\q2 As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
\q1
\v 46 The foreigners will fade away,
\q2 and will come trembling out of their close places.
\q1
\v 47 Yahweh lives!
\q2 Blessed be my rock!
\q1 Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
\q2
\v 48 even the God who executes vengeance for me,
\q2 who brings down peoples under me,
\q2
\v 49 who brings me away from my enemies.
\q1 Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
\q2 You deliver me from the violent man.
\q1
\v 50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
\q2 and will sing praises to your name.
\q1
\v 51 He gives great deliverance to his king,
\q2 and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
\q2 to David and to his offspring, forever more.”


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\p
\v 1 Now these are the last words of David.
\q1 David the son of Jesse says,
\q2 the man who was raised on high says,
\q2 the anointed of the God of Jacob,
\q2 the sweet psalmist of Israel:
\q1
\v 2 “Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me.
\q2 His word was on my tongue.
\q1
\v 3 The God of Israel said,
\q2 the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
\q2 ‘One who rules over men righteously,
\q2 who rules in the fear of God,
\q1
\v 4 shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises,
\q2 a morning without clouds,
\q2 when the tender grass springs out of the earth,
\q2 through clear shining after rain.’
\q1
\v 5 Isn’t my house so with God?
\q2 Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
\q2 ordered in all things, and sure,
\q2 for it is all my salvation, and all my desire,
\q2 although he doesn’t make it grow.
\q1
\v 6 But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away,
\q2 because they can’t be taken with the hand,
\q1
\v 7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.
\q1 They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
\p
\v 8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.
\v 9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.
\v 10 He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.
\v 11 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
\v 12 But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.
\v 13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
\v 14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
\v 15 David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
\p
\v 16 The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
\v 17 He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
\p
\v 18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
\v 19 Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
\v 20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
\v 21 He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
\v 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
\v 23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
\v 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
\v 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
\v 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
\v 27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
\v 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
\v 29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
\v 30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
\v 31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
\v 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
\v 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
\v 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
\v 35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
\v 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
\v 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
\v 38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
\v 39 and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.


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\p
\v 1 Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
\v 2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
\p
\v 3 Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
\p
\v 4 Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.
\v 5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;
\v 6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
\v 7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
\v 8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
\v 9 Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
\v 10 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
\p
\v 11 When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
\v 12 “Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
\p
\v 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
\p
\v 14 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
\p
\v 15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
\v 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
\p
\v 17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
\p
\v 18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
\p
\v 19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
\v 20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
\v 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
\p David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
\p
\v 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
\v 23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”
\p
\v 24 The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels\f + \fr 24:24 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels is about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.\f* of silver.
\v 25 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.


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\p
\v 1 Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
\v 2 Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
\v 3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
\v 4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
\v 5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
\p
\v 6 While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
\v 7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
\p
\v 8 Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
\v 9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;
\v 10 to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
\p
\v 11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.
\p
\v 12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you.”
\p
\v 13 He said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”
\p
\v 14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
\p
\v 15 Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.
\v 16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
\v 17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
\v 18 Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’”
\p
\v 19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
\v 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
\v 21 Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
\p
\v 22 Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
\v 23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”
\p
\v 24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?
\v 25 You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
\p
\v 26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.
\v 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
\v 28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
\v 29 Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
\v 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
\v 31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
\v 32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
\v 33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
\v 34 Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”
\p All the people wept again over him.
\v 35 All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
\p
\v 36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
\v 37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
\v 38 The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?
\v 39 I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”


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\p
\v 1 When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
\v 2 Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin:
\v 3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).
\v 4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
\v 5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
\v 6 They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
\v 7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
\v 8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.\f + \fr 4:8 \ft or, seed\f*”
\p
\v 9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
\v 10 when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
\v 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
\v 12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.


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\p
\v 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
\v 2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”
\v 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.
\p
\v 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
\v 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
\v 6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here;” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”
\v 7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.
\v 8 David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”
\p
\v 9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
\v 10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.
\v 11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
\v 12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.
\v 13 David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
\v 14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
\v 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
\v 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
\p
\v 17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.
\v 18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
\v 19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
\p Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
\p
\v 20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.\f + \fr 5:20 \ft “Baal Perazim” means “Lord who breaks out”.\f*
\v 21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
\p
\v 22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
\v 23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.
\v 24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
\p
\v 25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.


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\p
\v 1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
\v 2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above the cherubim.
\v 3 They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
\v 4 They brought it out of Abinadab’s house, which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark.
\v 5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.
\v 6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
\v 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
\v 8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah,\f + \fr 6:8 \ft “Perez Uzzah” means “outbreak against Uzzah”.\f* to this day.
\v 9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”
\v 10 So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
\v 11 Yahweh’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.
\v 12 King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.”
\p So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
\v 13 When those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
\v 14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.
\v 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
\p
\v 16 As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.
\v 17 They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
\v 18 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.
\v 19 He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.
\v 20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”
\p
\v 21 David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.
\v 22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”
\p
\v 23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.


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\v 1 When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
\v 2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
\p
\v 3 Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”
\p
\v 4 That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,
\v 5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
\v 6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
\v 7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
\v 8 Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
\v 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
\v 10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,
\v 11 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
\v 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
\v 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
\v 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
\v 15 but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
\v 16 Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”
\v 17 Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
\p
\v 18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord\f + \fr 7:18 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
\v 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!
\v 20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
\v 21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
\v 22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
\v 23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
\v 24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
\v 25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
\v 26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’
\v 27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
\p
\v 28 “Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
\v 29 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”


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\v 1 After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
\v 2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
\v 3 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
\v 4 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
\v 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians.
\v 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\v 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
\v 8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took a great quantity of bronze.
\v 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
\v 10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.
\v 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;
\v 12 of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
\p
\v 13 David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.
\v 14 He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\v 15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
\v 16 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
\v 17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,
\v 18 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.


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\v 1 David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
\v 2 There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”
\p He said, “I am your servant.”
\p
\v 3 The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?”
\p Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”
\p
\v 4 The king said to him, “Where is he?”
\p Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”
\p
\v 5 Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
\v 6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.”
\p He answered, “Behold, your servant!”
\p
\v 7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
\p
\v 8 He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
\v 9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
\v 10 Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.”
\p Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
\v 11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.
\v 12 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.
\v 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.


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\id GLO
\h Glossary
\toc1 World English Bible Glossary
\toc2 Glossary
\toc3 Glo
\mt1 World English Bible Glossary
\ip The following words used in the World English Bible (WEB) are not very common, either because they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money, or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.
\ili \k Abaddon\k*
\ili2 Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.
\ili \k Abba\k*
\ili2 Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a respectful, affectionate, and familiar way, like papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to refer to our Father in Heaven.
\ili \k adultery\k*
\ili2 Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone besides your own husband or wife. In the Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is between a man and a woman who are married to each other.
\ili \k alpha\k*
\ili2 Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the beginning or the first.
\ili \k amen\k*
\ili2 Amen means “So be it” or “I believe it is certainly so.”
\ili \k angel\k*
\ili2 “Angel” literally means “messenger” or “envoy,” and is usually used to refer to spiritual beings who normally are invisible to us, but can also appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as humans.
\ili \k Apollyon\k*
\ili2 Apollyon is Greek for destroyer.
\ili \k apostle\k*
\ili2 “Apostle” means a delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders. This term is applied in the New Testament in both a general sense connected with a ministry of establishing and strengthening church fellowships, as well as in a specific sense to “The 12 Apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). The former category applies to a specific ministry that continues in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13) and which includes many more than 12 people, while the latter refers to the apostles named in Matthew 10:2-4, except with Judas Iscariot replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).
\ili \k Armageddon\k*
\ili2 See Har-magedon.
\ili \k assarion\k*
\ili2 An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth one tenth of a drachma, or about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k aureus\k*
\ili2 An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii. An aureus weighed from 115 to 126.3 grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).
\ili \k baptize\k*
\ili2 Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something, usually water. Baptism in the Holy Spirit, fire, the Body of Christ, and suffering are also mentioned in the New Testament, along with baptism in water. Baptism is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment. Baptism is a sign of repentance, as practiced by John the Baptizer, and of faith in Jesus Christ, as practiced by Jesus’ disciples.
\ili \k bath\k*
\ili2 A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons.
\ili \k batos\k*
\ili2 A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters, 10.4 U. S. gallons, or 8.7 imperial gallons.
\ili \k Beelzebul\k*
\ili2 literally, lord of the flies. A name used for the devil.
\ili \k Beersheba\k*
\ili2 Beersheba is Hebrew for “well of the oath” or “well of the seven.” A city in Israel.
\ili \k behold\k*
\ili2 Look! See! Wow! Notice this! Lo!
\ili \k cherub\k*
\ili2 A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands that is associated with the throne room of God and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.
\ili \k cherubim\k*
\ili2 Cherubim means more than one cherub or a mighty cherub.
\ili \k choenix\k*
\ili2 A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (which is a little more than a quart). A choenix was the daily ration of grain for a soldier in some armies.
\ili \k concubine\k*
\ili2 a woman who is united to a man for the purpose of providing him with sexual pleasure and children, but not being honored as a full partner in marriage; a second-class wife. In Old Testament times (and in some places now), it was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs, and wealthy men to marry multiple wives and concubines, but God commanded the Kings of Israel not to do so (Deuteronomy 17:17) and Jesus encouraged people to either remain single or marry as God originally intended: one man married to one woman (Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-13).
\ili \k cor\k*
\ili2 A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U. S. gallons, or 86 imperial gallons.
\ili \k corban\k*
\ili2 Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.
\ili \k crucify\k*
\ili2 Crucify means to execute someone by nailing them to a cross with metal spikes. Their hands are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes driven through their wrists or hands. Their feet or ankles are attached to a cross with a metal spike. The weight of the victim’s body tends to force the air out of his lungs. To rise up to breathe, the victim has to put weight on the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The victim is nailed to the cross while the cross is on the ground, then the cross is raised up and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the wounds. Before crucifixion, the victim was usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine tails, which had bits of glass and metal tied to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to be removed and open wounds to be placed against the raw wood of the cross. The victim was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of his cross from the place of judgment to the place of crucifixion, but often was physically unable after the scourging, so another person would be pressed into involuntary service to carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was generally done totally naked to maximize both shame and discomfort. Eventually, the pain, weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the muscles needed to breathe make breathing impossible, and the victim suffocates.
\ili \k cubit\k*
\ili2 A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or 18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the measurement. There is also a “long” cubit that is longer than a regular cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)
\ili \k cummin\k*
\ili2 Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.
\ili \k darnel\k*
\ili2 Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or Lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds reveal a great difference. Darnel seeds aren’t good for much except as chicken feed or to burn to prevent the spread of this weed.
\ili \k denarii\k*
\ili2 denarii: plural form of denarius, a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for a laborer.
\ili \k denarius\k*
\ili2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.
\ili \k devil\k*
\ili2 The word “devil” comes from the Greek “diabolos,” which means “one prone to slander; a liar.” “Devil” is used to refer to a fallen angel, also called “Satan,” who works to steal, kill, destroy, and do evil. The devil’s doom is certain, and it is only a matter of time before he is thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.
\ili \k didrachma\k*
\ili2 A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax.
\ili \k disciple\k*
\ili2 a student who follows a teacher to learn both by precept and example.
\ili \k distaff\k*
\ili2 part of a spinning wheel used for twisting threads.
\ili \k drachma\k*
\ili2 A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one Roman denarius, or about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k El-Elohe-Israel\k*
\ili2 El-Elohe-Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”
\ili \k ephah\k*
\ili2 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
\ili \k Gehenna\k*
\ili2 Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom, literally “valley of Hinnom.” This word originated as the name for a place south of the old city of Jerusalem where the city’s rubbish was burned. At one time, live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die there. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice that it was made into a garbage heap. Bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.
\ili \k gittith\k*
\ili2 Gittith is a musical term possibly meaning “an instrument of Gath.”
\ili \k goad\k*
\ili2 a sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate reluctant animals (such as oxen and mules) to move in the right direction.
\ili \k gospel\k*
\ili2 Gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings,” specifically the Good News of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection for our salvation, healing, and provision; and the hope of eternal life that Jesus made available to us by God’s grace.
\ili \k Hades\k*
\ili2 Hades: The nether realm of the disembodied spirits. Also known as “hell.” See also “Sheol”.
\ili \k Har-magedon\k*
\ili2 Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most likely a reference to hill (“har”) of Megiddo, near the Carmel Range in Israel. This area has a large valley plain with plenty of room for armies to maneuver.
\ili \k hin\k*
\ili2 A hin is a measure of volume of about about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.
\ili \k homer\k*
\ili2 One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels, 6.1 imperial bushels, 58 U. S. gallons, or 48.4 imperial gallons.
\ili \k hypocrite\k*
\ili2 a stage actor; someone who pretends to be someone other than who they really are; a pretender; a dissembler
\ili \k Ishmael\k*
\ili2 Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar. Ishmael literally means, “God hears.”
\ili \k Jehovah\k*
\ili2 See “Yahweh.”
\ili \k Jesus\k*
\ili2 “Jesus” is Greek for the Hebrew name “Yeshua,” which is a short version of “Yehoshua,” which comes from “Yoshia,” which means “He will save.”
\ili \k kodrantes\k*
\ili2 A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta. It is worth less than 2% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k lepta\k*
\ili2 Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.
\ili \k leviathan\k*
\ili2 Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic creature, possibly a crocodile or a dinosaur.
\ili \k mahalath\k*
\ili2 Mahalath is the name of a tune or a musical term.
\ili \k manna\k*
\ili2 Name for the food that God miraculously provided to the Israelites while they were wandering in the wilderness between Egypt and the promised land. From Hebrew man-hu (What is that?) or manan (to allot). See Exodus 16:14-35.
\ili \k marriage\k*
\ili2 the union of a husband and a wife for the purpose of cohabitation, procreation, and to enjoy each other’s company. God’s plan for marriage is between one man and one woman (Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7). Although there are many cases of a man marrying more than one woman in the Old Testament, being married to one wife is a requirement to serve in certain church leadership positions (1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:5-6).
\ili \k maschil\k*
\ili2 Maschil is a musical and literary term for “contemplation” or “meditative psalm.”
\ili \k michtam\k*
\ili2 A michtam is a poem.
\ili \k mina\k*
\ili2 A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas (or 100 Roman denarii), or about 100 day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k myrrh\k*
\ili2 Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to the ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown resin. Myrrh was highly valued as a perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and ceremonial ointments.
\ili \k Nicolaitans\k*
\ili2 Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught the detestable lie that the physical and spiritual realms were entirely separate and that immorality in the physical realm wouldn’t harm your spiritual health.
\ili \k omega\k*
\ili2 Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the last or the end.
\ili \k Peniel\k*
\ili2 Peniel is Hebrew for “face of God.”
\ili \k phylactery\k*
\ili2 a leather container for holding a small scroll containing important Scripture passages that is worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men. See Deuteronomy 6:8.
\ili \k Praetorium\k*
\ili2 Praetorium: the Roman governor’s residence and office building, and those who work there.
\ili \k quadrans\k*
\ili2 A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k rabbi\k*
\ili2 Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “my teacher,” used as a title of respect for Jewish teachers.
\ili \k Rahab\k*
\ili2 Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid Joshua’s 2 spies in Jericho (Joshua 2,6) and later became an ancestor of Jesus (Matthew 1:5) and an example of faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25); or (2) Literally, “pride” or “arrogance” — possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature (Job 9:13; 26:12; Isaiah 51:9) or symbolically referring to Egypt (Psalm 87:4; 89:10; Isaiah 30:7).
\ili \k repent\k*
\ili2 to change one’s mind; turn away from sin and turn toward God; to abhor one’s past sins and determine to follow God.
\ili \k Rhabboni\k*
\ili2 Rhabboni: a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”
\ili \k Sabbath\k*
\ili2 The seventh day of the week, set aside by God for man to rest.
\ili \k saints\k*
\ili2 The Greek word for “saints” literally means “holy ones.” Saints are people set apart for service to God as holy and separate, living in righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.
\ili \k Samaritan\k*
\ili2 A Samaritan is a resident of Samaria. The Samaritans and the Jews generally detested each other during the time that Jesus walked among us.
\ili \k sanctify\k*
\ili2 To declare or set apart something as holy. To purify and separate a person from sin.
\ili \k sata\k*
\ili2 A sata is a dry measure of capacity approximately equal to 13 liters or 1.5 pecks.
\ili \k Satan\k*
\ili2 Satan means “accuser.” This is one name for the devil, an enemy of God and God’s people.
\ili \k scribe\k*
\ili2 A scribe is one who copies God’s law. They were often respected as teachers and authorities on God’s law.
\ili \k selah\k*
\ili2 Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or instrumental interlude for reflection.
\ili \k seraphim\k*
\ili2 Seraphim are 6-winged angels. See Isaiah 6:2-6.
\ili \k sexual immorality\k*
\ili2 The term “sexual immorality” in the New Testament comes from the Greek “porneia,” which refers to any sexual activity besides that between a husband and his wife. In other words, prostitution (male or female), bestiality, homosexual activity, any sexual intercourse outside of marriage, and the production and consumption of pornography all are included in this term.
\ili \k shekel\k*
\ili2 A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).
\ili \k Sheol\k*
\ili2 Sheol is the place of the dead. See also “Hades”.
\ili \k Shibah\k*
\ili2 Shibah is Hebrew for “oath” or “seven.” See Beersheba.
\ili \k shigionoth\k*
\ili2 Victorious music.
\ili \k soul\k*
\ili2 “Soul” refers to the emotions and intellect of a living person, as well as that person’s very life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a person’s spirit and body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12)
\ili \k span\k*
\ili2 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)
\ili \k spirit\k*
\ili2 Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same Hebrew and Greek words. A person’s spirit is the very essence of that person’s life, which comes from God, who is a Spirit being (John 4:24, Genesis 1:2; 2:7). The Bible distinguishes between a person’s spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12). Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily having a visible body, such as angels and demons (Luke 9:39, 1 John 4:1-3).
\ili \k stadia\k*
\ili2 Stadia is plural for “stadion,” a linear measure of about 184.9 meters or 606.6 feet (the length of the race course at Olympia).
\ili \k stater\k*
\ili2 A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.
\ili \k tabernacle\k*
\ili2 a dwelling place or place of worship, usually a tent.
\ili \k talent\k*
\ili2 A measure of weight or mass of 3000 shekels.
\ili \k Tartarus\k*
\ili2 Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for the wicked dead; another name for Gehenna or Hell.
\ili \k teraphim\k*
\ili2 Teraphim are household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
\ili \k Yah\k*
\ili2 “Yah” is a shortened form of “Yahweh,” which is God’s proper name. This form is used occasionally in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms. See “Yahweh.”
\ili \k Yahweh\k*
\ili2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper name. In Hebrew, the four consonants roughly equivalent to YHWH were considered too holy to pronounce, so the Hebrew word for “Lord” (Adonai) was substituted when reading it aloud. When vowel points were added to the Hebrew Old Testament, the vowel points for “Adonai” were mixed with the consonants for “Yahweh,” which if you pronounced it literally as written, would be pronounced “Yehovah” or “Jehovah.” When the Old Testament was translated to Greek, the tradition of substituting “Lord” for God’s proper name continued in the translation of God’s name to “Lord” (Kurios). Some English Bibles translate God’s proper name to “LORD” or “GOD” (usually with small capital letters), based on that same tradition. This can get really confusing, since two other words (“Adonai” and “Elohim”) translate to “Lord” and “God,” and they are sometimes used together. The ASV of 1901 (and some other translations) render YHWH as “Jehovah.” The most probable pronunciation of God’s proper name is “Yahweh.” In Hebrew, the name “Yahweh” is related to the active declaration “I AM.” See Exodus 3:13-14. Since Hebrew has no tenses, the declaration “I AM” can also be interpreted as “I WAS” and “I WILL BE.” Compare Revelation 1:8.
\ili \k Zion\k*
\ili2 Zion is a name which originally referred one of the mountains of Jerusalem. It became a term synonymous with Jerusalem itself. The term “Heavenly Zion” is also used to refer the future dwelling place of God’s people.
\ip This companion glossary to the World English Bible is in the Public Domain. You may not copyright it or claim authorship over it, but you are free to use, sell, distribute, or copy it.


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\v 1 Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.
\v 2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”
\v 3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
\v 4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately.
\p
\v 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
\v 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
\v 7 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.
\v 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
\v 9 Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;
\v 10 but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.
\v 11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
\v 12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.
\v 13 Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’
\v 14 Behold,\f + \fr 1:14 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”
\p
\v 15 Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.
\v 16 Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”
\p
\v 17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh\f + \fr 1:17 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. \f* your God\f + \fr 1:17 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’
\v 18 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.
\v 19 He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.
\v 20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
\v 21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
\p
\v 22 Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
\v 23 They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!”
\p When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
\v 24 Nathan said, “My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’
\v 25 For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’
\v 26 But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
\v 27 Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
\p
\v 28 Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.
\v 29 The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
\v 30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”
\p
\v 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”
\p
\v 32 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.
\v 33 The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
\v 34 Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’
\v 35 Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.”
\p
\v 36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.
\v 37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.”
\p
\v 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
\v 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”
\p
\v 40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.
\v 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”
\p
\v 42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”
\p
\v 43 Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.
\v 44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.
\v 45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
\v 46 Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
\v 47 Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.
\v 48 Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”
\p
\v 49 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way.
\v 50 Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.
\v 51 Solomon was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
\p
\v 52 Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”
\p
\v 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”


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\v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
\v 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.
\v 3 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.
\v 4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
\v 5 the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.
\v 6 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
\v 7 However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
\v 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
\v 9 Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
\v 10 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
\p
\v 11 The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees\f + \fr 10:11 \ft possibly an Indian sandalwood, with nice grain and a pleasant scent, and good for woodworking\f* and precious stones.
\v 12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day.
\v 13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants.
\v 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents\f + \fr 10:14 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons\f* of gold,
\v 15 in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
\v 16 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels\f + \fr 10:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or 13.2 pounds or 192 Troy ounces.\f* of gold went to one buckler.
\v 17 he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas\f + \fr 10:17 \ft A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.\f* of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
\v 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
\v 19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
\v 20 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.
\v 21 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.
\v 22 For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
\v 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
\v 24 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
\v 25 Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.
\v 26 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
\v 27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
\v 28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
\v 29 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels\f + \fr 10:29 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.


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\v 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
\v 2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
\v 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
\v 4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
\v 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
\v 6 Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
\v 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
\v 8 So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
\v 9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
\v 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.
\v 11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
\v 12 Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.
\v 13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.
\v 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
\v 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
\v 17 Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.
\v 18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
\v 19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
\v 20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
\v 21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”
\p
\v 22 Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?”
\p He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.”
\p
\v 23 God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
\v 24 He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.
\v 25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
\v 26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
\v 27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.
\v 28 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.
\v 29 At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.
\v 30 Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
\v 31 He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
\v 32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
\v 33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
\p
\v 34 “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
\v 35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.
\v 36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
\v 37 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
\v 38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
\v 39 I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”
\p
\v 40 Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
\v 41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
\v 42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
\v 43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
\v 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
\v 3 and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
\v 4 “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
\p
\v 5 He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.”
\p So the people departed.
\p
\v 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
\p
\v 7 They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
\p
\v 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
\v 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
\p
\v 10 The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
\v 11 Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”
\p
\v 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
\v 13 The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
\v 14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
\p
\v 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
\v 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
\p
\v 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
\v 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
\v 19 So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.
\v 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
\v 21 When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
\v 22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
\v 23 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
\v 24 ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s word, and returned and went their way, according to Yahweh’s word.
\p
\v 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
\v 26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.
\v 27 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
\v 28 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
\v 29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
\v 30 This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
\v 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
\v 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
\v 33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.


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\c 13
\p
\v 1 Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
\v 2 He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”
\v 3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”
\p
\v 4 When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.
\v 5 The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.
\v 6 The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.”
\p The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
\p
\v 7 The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
\p
\v 8 The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;
\v 9 for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’”
\v 10 So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.
\p
\v 11 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
\p
\v 12 Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
\v 13 He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.
\v 14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”
\p He said, “I am.”
\v 15 Then he said to him, “Come home with me, and eat bread.”
\p
\v 16 He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
\v 17 For it was said to me by Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’”
\p
\v 18 He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.
\p
\v 19 So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
\v 20 As they sat at the table, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;
\v 21 and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
\v 22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”
\p
\v 23 After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
\v 24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.
\v 25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
\v 26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to him.”
\v 27 He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.
\v 28 He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.
\v 29 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.
\v 30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
\p
\v 31 After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
\v 32 For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”
\p
\v 33 After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.
\v 34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.


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\c 14
\p
\v 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
\v 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.
\v 3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”
\p
\v 4 Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
\v 5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
\p
\v 6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
\v 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
\v 8 and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
\v 9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;
\v 10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,\f + \fr 14:10 \ft or, male\f* he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.
\v 11 The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’
\v 12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
\v 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
\v 14 Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
\v 15 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,\f + \fr 14:15 \ft That is, the Euphrates.\f* because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.
\v 16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
\p
\v 17 Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
\v 18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
\v 19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
\v 20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
\v 22 Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
\v 23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
\v 24 There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
\v 25 In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
\v 26 and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
\v 27 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
\v 28 It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
\p
\v 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
\v 31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.


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\c 15
\p
\v 1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
\v 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
\v 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
\v 4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
\v 5 because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
\v 6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
\v 7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
\v 8 Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
\v 10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
\v 11 Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.
\v 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
\v 13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
\v 14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
\v 15 He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.
\v 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
\v 17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
\v 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
\v 19 “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”
\p
\v 20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
\v 21 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
\v 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
\v 23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
\v 24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
\v 26 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
\v 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.
\v 29 As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
\v 30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
\v 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
\p
\v 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.
\v 34 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
\v 2 “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
\v 3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
\v 4 The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”
\p
\v 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 6 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 7 Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
\p
\v 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.
\v 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
\v 10 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
\p
\v 11 When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall\f + \fr 16:11 \ft or, male\f* among his relatives or his friends.
\v 12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
\v 13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
\v 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
\v 16 The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
\v 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
\v 18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
\v 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
\v 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\p
\v 21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
\v 22 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
\v 23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.
\v 24 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents\f + \fr 16:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
\v 25 Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.
\v 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
\v 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
\v 30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.
\v 31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
\v 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
\v 33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
\v 34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.


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\c 17
\p
\v 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
\p
\v 2 Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
\v 3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
\v 4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
\v 5 So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.
\v 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
\v 7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
\p
\v 8 Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
\v 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
\p
\v 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
\p
\v 11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
\p
\v 12 She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
\p
\v 13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
\v 14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”
\p
\v 15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.
\v 16 The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
\v 17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
\v 18 She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
\p
\v 19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
\v 20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
\p
\v 21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
\p
\v 22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
\v 23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
\p
\v 24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”


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\c 18
\p
\v 1 After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
\p
\v 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
\v 3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;
\v 4 for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
\v 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”
\p
\v 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
\v 7 As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
\p
\v 8 He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”
\p
\v 9 He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
\v 10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.
\v 11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
\v 12 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
\v 13 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
\v 14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”
\p
\v 15 Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
\v 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
\v 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
\p
\v 18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
\v 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
\p
\v 20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
\v 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”
\p The people didn’t say a word.
\p
\v 22 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.
\v 23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
\v 24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.”
\p All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
\p
\v 25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”
\p
\v 26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
\v 27 At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
\p
\v 28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
\v 29 When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.
\p
\v 30 Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.
\v 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
\v 32 With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs\f + \fr 18:32 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of seed.
\v 33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”
\v 34 He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.
\v 35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.
\p
\v 36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
\v 37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”
\p
\v 38 Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
\v 39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
\p
\v 40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!”
\p They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
\v 41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
\p
\v 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
\v 43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.”
\p He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.”
\p He said, “Go again” seven times.
\p
\v 44 On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.”
\p He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
\p
\v 45 In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
\v 46 Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.


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\v 1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
\v 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
\p
\v 3 When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
\v 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
\p
\v 5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”
\p
\v 6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
\v 7 Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
\p
\v 8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.
\v 9 He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
\p
\v 10 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
\p
\v 11 He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.”
\p Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
\v 12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.
\v 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
\p
\v 14 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
\p
\v 15 Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
\v 16 Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
\v 17 He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
\v 18 Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”
\p
\v 19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.
\v 20 Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”
\p He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
\p
\v 21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.


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\v 1 Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
\v 2 “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
\v 3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
\v 4 Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
\p
\v 5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.
\v 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol\f + \fr 2:6 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* in peace.
\v 7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
\p
\v 8 “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
\v 9 Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol\f + \fr 2:9 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* with blood.”
\p
\v 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
\v 11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
\v 12 Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.
\p
\v 13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”
\p He said, “Peaceably.
\v 14 He said moreover, I have something to tell you.”
\p She said, “Say on.”
\p
\v 15 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.
\v 16 Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.”
\p She said to him, “Say on.”
\v 17 He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
\p
\v 18 Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
\p
\v 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
\v 20 Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”
\p The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.”
\p
\v 21 She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
\p
\v 22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
\v 23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
\v 24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
\p
\v 25 King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
\v 26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord\f + \fr 2:26 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
\v 27 So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
\p
\v 28 This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.
\v 29 King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
\p
\v 30 Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’”
\p He said, “No; but I will die here.”
\p Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”
\p
\v 31 The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
\v 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
\v 33 So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring\f + \fr 2:33 \ft or, seed\f* forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”
\p
\v 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
\v 35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
\v 36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.
\v 37 For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”
\p
\v 38 Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
\p
\v 39 At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
\p
\v 40 Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.
\v 41 Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
\p
\v 42 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’
\v 43 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”
\v 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.
\v 45 But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”
\v 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.


