And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry Land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry Land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole Land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole Land of Ethiopia.
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the Land of Shinar.
Out of that Land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the Land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the Land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the Land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a Land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. read more And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the Land of Canaan; and into the Land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the Land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the Land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this Land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. And there was a famine in the Land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the Land. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. show less
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the Land of Canaan; and into the Land of Canaan they came.
And Abram passed through the Land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the Land.
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this Land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
And there was a famine in the Land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the Land.
And the Land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the Land.
Is not the whole Land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the Land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Abram dwelled in the Land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Arise, walk through the Land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this Land to inherit it.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a Land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this Land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the Land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the Land wherein thou art a stranger, all the Land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the Land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the Land of Egypt.
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the Land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the Land of the Philistines.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the Land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the Land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the Land, even to the children of Heth.
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the Land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
My lord, hearken unto me: the Land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the Land of Canaan.
And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this Land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the Land from whence thou camest?
The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the Land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this Land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose Land I dwell:
And there was a famine in the Land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the Land which I shall tell thee of:
Sojourn in this Land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Then Isaac sowed in that Land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the Land.
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the Land, what good shall my life do me?
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the Land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the Land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this Land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the Land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this Land, and return unto the Land of thy kindred.
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the Land of Canaan.
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the Land of Seir, the country of Edom.
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the Land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the Land.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the Land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the Land, and trade therein; for the Land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the Land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the Land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
And the Land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the Land.
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that Land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the Land of Canaan.
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the Land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the Land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the Land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the Land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the Land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the Land of Edom.
Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the Land of Seir.
And these are the kings that reigned in the Land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the Land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
And Jacob dwelt in the Land wherein his father was a stranger, in the Land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. read more And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? show less
For indeed I was stolen away out of the Land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the Land of Egypt for badness:
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the Land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the Land;
And the plenty shall not be known in the Land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the Land of Egypt.
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the Land, and take up the fifth part of the Land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
And that food shall be for store to the Land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the Land of Egypt; that the Land perish not through the famine.
And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the Land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the Land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the Land of Egypt.
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the Land of Egypt.
And 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: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the Land of my affliction.
And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the Land of Egypt there was bread.
And when all the Land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the Land of Egypt.
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the Land of Canaan.
And Joseph was the governor over the Land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the Land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the Land of Canaan to buy food.
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the Land ye are come.
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the Land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the Land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
The man, who is the lord of the Land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the Land of Canaan.
And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the Land.
And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the Land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the Land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
For these two years hath the famine been in the Land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the Land of Egypt.
And thou shalt dwell in the Land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the Land of Canaan;
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the Land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the Land.
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the Land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the Land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the Land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the Land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the Land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
And unto Joseph in the Land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the Land of Goshen.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the Land of Canaan, are come unto me;
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the Land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the Land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the Land of Goshen.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the Land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the Land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the Land of Goshen.
The Land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the Land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the Land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the Land of Egypt, in the best of the Land, in the Land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
And there was no bread in all the Land; for the famine was very sore, so that the Land of Egypt and all the Land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the Land of Egypt, and in the Land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
And when money failed in the Land of Egypt, and in the Land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our Land? buy us and our Land for bread, and we and our Land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the Land be not desolate.
And Joseph bought all the Land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the Land became Pharaoh's.
Only the Land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your Land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the Land.
And Joseph made it a law over the Land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the Land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
And Israel dwelt in the Land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
And Jacob lived in the Land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the Land of Canaan, and blessed me,
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this Land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the Land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the Land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the Land of your fathers.
And he saw that rest was good, and the Land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the Land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the Land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the Land of Egypt,
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the Land of Goshen.
And when the inhabitants of the Land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
For his sons carried him into the Land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this Land unto the Land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the Land was filled with them.
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the Land.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the Land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange Land.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that Land unto a good Land and a large, unto a Land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the Land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a Land flowing with milk and honey.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry Land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry Land.
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the Land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the Land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the Land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his Land.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the Land of Canaan, the Land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And I will bring you in unto the Land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his Land.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt.
These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the Land of Egypt according to their armies.
Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his Land.
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the Land of Egypt.
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the Land of Egypt by great judgments.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the Land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the Land of Egypt.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the Land of Egypt.
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the Land of Egypt.
And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the Land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the Land, that it may become lice throughout all the Land of Egypt.
And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the Land became lice throughout all the Land of Egypt.
And I will sever in that day the Land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the Land of Egypt: the Land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the Land.
And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the Land.
And it shall become small dust in all the Land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the Land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the Land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the Land of Egypt.
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the Land of Egypt.
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the Land of Egypt since it became a nation.
And the hail smote throughout all the Land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the Land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the Land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the Land, even all that the hail hath left.
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the Land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the Land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
And the locusts went up over all the Land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the Land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the Land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the Land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the Land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the Land of Egypt three days:
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the Land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
And all the firstborn in the Land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
And there shall be a great cry throughout all the Land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the Land of Egypt.
And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his Land.
For I will pass through the Land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the Land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the Land of Egypt.
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the Land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the Land.
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the Land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the Land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the Land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the Land of Egypt.
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the Land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the Land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt by their armies.
And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the Land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a Land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the Land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the Land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the Land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the Land of Egypt.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the Land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry Land, and the waters were divided.
But the children of Israel walked upon dry Land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry Land in the midst of the sea.
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the Land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the Land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. read more And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the Land of Egypt: And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD. And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings. And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the Land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a Land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the Land of Canaan. Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. show less
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the Land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the Land of Egypt:
And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the Land of Egypt.
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a Land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the Land of Canaan.
And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange Land:
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the Land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the Land of Egypt.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the Land of Egypt.
The first of the firstfruits of thy Land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy Land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the Land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the Land.
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the Land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
They shall not dwell in thy Land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the Land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the Land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt.
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the Land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this Land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the Land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the Land of Egypt, unto the Land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Unto a Land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the Land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the Land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy Land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
The first of the firstfruits of thy Land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the Land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
When ye be come into the Land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the Land of your possession;
And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
After the doings of the Land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the Land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
And the Land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the Land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
(For all these abominations have the men of the Land done, which were before you, and the Land is defiled;)
That the Land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
And when ye reap the harvest of your Land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
And when ye shall come into the Land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the Land fall to whoredom, and the Land become full of wickedness.
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the Land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the Land of Egypt.
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the Land shall stone him with stones.
And if the people of the Land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the Land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their Land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a Land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your Land.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the Land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
And when ye reap the harvest of your Land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the Land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the Land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the Land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the Land which I give you, then shall the Land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the Land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the Land. read more And the sabbath of the Land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy Land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. show less
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the Land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the Land.
And the sabbath of the Land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy Land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your Land.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the Land in safety.
And the Land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
The Land shall not be sold for ever: for the Land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the Land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your Land: and they shall be your possession.
For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the Land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your Land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the Land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your Land safely.
And I will give peace in the Land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the Land, neither shall the sword go through your Land.
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the Land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your Land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the Land yield their fruits.
And I will bring the Land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your Land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Then shall the Land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' Land; even then shall the Land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the Land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the Land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the Land.
The Land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And yet for all that, when they be in the Land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the Land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the Land did belong.
And all the tithe of the Land, whether of the seed of the Land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the Land of Egypt, saying,
Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the Land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the Land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the Land of Egypt, saying,
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the Land.
And if ye go to war in your Land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own Land, and to my kindred.
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the Land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Send thou men, that they may search the Land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the Land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
And Moses sent them to spy out the Land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
And see the Land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
And what the Land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
And what the Land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the Land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
So they went up, and searched the Land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the Land.
And they told him, and said, We came unto the Land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the Land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the Land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
And they brought up an evil report of the Land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The Land, through which we have gone to search it, is a Land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the Land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this Land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the Land, rent their clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The Land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good Land.
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this Land, and give it us; a Land which floweth with milk and honey.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the Land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this Land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the Land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Surely they shall not see the Land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the Land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Doubtless ye shall not come into the Land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the Land which ye have despised.
After the number of the days in which ye searched the Land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
And the men, which Moses sent to search the Land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the Land,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the Land, died by the plague before the LORD.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the Land, lived still.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the Land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the Land whither I bring you,
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the Land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the Land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the Land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a Land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Moreover thou hast not brought us into a Land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
And whatsoever is first ripe in the Land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their Land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the Land which I have given them.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the Land of Edom, saying,
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the Land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the Land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Let me pass through thy Land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his Land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his Land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his Land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his Land.
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the Land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the Land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your Land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the Land of Egypt.
Unto these the Land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Notwithstanding the Land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the Land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the Land of Jazer, and the Land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a Land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this Land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the Land which the LORD hath given them?
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the Land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the Land which the LORD had given them.
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the Land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the Land.
And the Land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this Land shall be your possession before the LORD.
And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the Land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the Land of Gilead for a possession:
But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the Land of Canaan.
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the Land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the Land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the Land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the Land of Edom.
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the Land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the Land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the Land of Canaan;
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the Land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the Land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the Land to possess it.
And ye shall divide the Land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the Land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the Land wherein ye dwell.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the Land of Canaan; (this is the Land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the Land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your Land with the coasts thereof round about.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the Land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
These are the names of the men which shall divide the Land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the Land of Canaan.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the Land of Canaan;
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the Land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the Land of his possession.
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the Land, until the death of the priest.
So ye shall not pollute the Land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the Land: and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Defile not therefore the Land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
Defile not therefore the Land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the Land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the Land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Behold, I have set the Land before you: go in and possess the Land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the Land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the Land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
And they took of the fruit of the Land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good Land which the LORD our God doth give us.
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the Land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good Land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the Land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their Land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their Land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the Land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the Land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
(That also was accounted a Land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his Land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
Let me pass through thy Land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the Land which the LORD our God giveth us.
Only unto the Land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his Land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the Land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
And this Land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the Land of giants.
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this Land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the Land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good Land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the Land which thou shalt see.
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the Land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the Land whither ye go to possess it.
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the Land whither ye go over to possess it.
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good Land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
But I must die in this Land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good Land.
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the Land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the Land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their Land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the Land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
And they possessed his Land, and the Land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And remember that thou wast a servant in the Land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the Land which I give them to possess it.
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the Land which ye shall possess.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the Land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the Land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: read more And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. show less
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the Land that floweth with milk and honey.
And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the Land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the Land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good Land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the Land which he sware unto our fathers.
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the Land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy Land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the Land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the Land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good Land, a Land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
A Land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a Land of oil olive, and honey;
A Land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a Land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good Land which he hath given thee.
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the Land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this Land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their Land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good Land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the Land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the Land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Lest the Land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the Land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a Land of rivers of waters.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the Land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his Land;
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the Land, whither ye go to possess it; And that ye may prolong your days in the Land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a Land that floweth with milk and honey. For the Land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the Land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the Land, whither ye go to possess it, is a Land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: read more A Land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your Land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. show less
And that ye may prolong your days in the Land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a Land that floweth with milk and honey.
For the Land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the Land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
But the Land, whither ye go to possess it, is a Land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
A Land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
That I will give you the rain of your Land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the Land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good Land which the LORD giveth you.
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the Land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the Land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the Land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the Land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the Land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the Land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the Land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their Land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the Land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
For the poor shall never cease out of the Land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy Land.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the Land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the Land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the Land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
When thou art come unto the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
When thou art come into the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose Land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy Land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy Land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the Land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
That innocent blood be not shed in thy Land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the Land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt.
If one be found slain in the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy Land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his Land.
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the Land whither thou goest to possess it.
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the Land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy Land within thy gates:
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the Land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy Land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this Land, even a Land that floweth with milk and honey.
And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the Land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the Land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a Land that floweth with milk and honey.
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a Land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the Land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the Land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy Land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy Land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the Land, whither thou goest to possess it.
The LORD shall make the rain of thy Land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
The fruit of thy Land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy Land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy Land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy Land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the Land whither thou goest to possess it.
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the Land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the Land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his Land;
And we took their Land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far Land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that Land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
And that the whole Land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this Land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this Land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: read more And the LORD rooted them out of their Land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another Land, as it is this day. show less
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this Land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And the LORD rooted them out of their Land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another Land, as it is this day.
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the Land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy Land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the Land whither thou goest to possess it.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the Land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the Land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the Land of them, whom he destroyed.
And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the Land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the Land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the Land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
For when I shall have brought them into the Land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the Land which I sware.
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the Land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
He found him in a desert Land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his Land, and to his people.
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the Land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the Land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
Yet thou shalt see the Land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the Land which I give the children of Israel.
And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his Land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a Land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the Land of Gilead, unto Dan,
And all Naphtali, and the Land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the Land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
And the LORD said unto him, This is the Land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the Land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
And he buried him in a valley in the Land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the Land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his Land,
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the Land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the Land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the Land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the Land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this Land.
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the Land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the Land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the Land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the Land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the Land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the Land faint because of you.
And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the Land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Behold, when we come into the Land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the Land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry Land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the Land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a Land that floweth with milk and honey.
And they did eat of the old corn of the Land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the Land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the Land of Canaan that year.
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the Land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his Land:
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the Land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the Land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
And all these kings and their Land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the Land of Mizpeh.
So Joshua took all that Land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the Land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
There was none of the Anakims left in the Land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
So Joshua took the whole Land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the Land rested from war.
Now these are the kings of the Land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their Land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much Land to be possessed.
This is the Land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
From the south, all the Land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
And the Land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
Now therefore divide this Land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the Land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the Land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the Land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the Land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the Land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the Land had rest from war.
Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south Land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the Land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the Land of Gilead.
Now Manasseh had the Land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that Land.
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the Land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the Land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the Land was subdued before them.
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the Land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the Land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
Ye shall therefore describe the Land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the Land, saying, Go and walk through the Land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
And the men went and passed through the Land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the Land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
When they had made an end of dividing the Land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the Land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the Land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the Land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the Land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the Land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the Land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the Land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the Land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the Land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
Notwithstanding, if the Land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the Land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the Land of Gilead, unto the Land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the Land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their Land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good Land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good Land which the LORD your God hath given you.
When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good Land which he hath given unto you.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the Land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
And I brought you into the Land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their Land; and I destroyed them from before you.
And I have given you a Land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose Land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the Land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the Land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south Land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
And the man went into the Land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that Land.
But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the Land: for they did not drive them out.
Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the Land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the Land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this Land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the Land. And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. read more And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the Land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. show less
And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the Land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the Land had rest fourscore years.
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the Land had rest forty years.
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the Land to destroy it.
And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their Land; And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose Land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. read more And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me. Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight. show less
And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose Land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the Land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the Land of Gilead.
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the Land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the Land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the Land of Tob:
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my Land?
And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my Land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the Land of Moab, nor the Land of the children of Ammon:
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy Land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the Land of Edom, and the Land of Moab, and came by the east side of the Land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy Land into my place.
And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the Land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the Land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the Land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the Land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the Land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the Land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the Land.
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large Land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
And the five men that went to spy out the Land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the Land.
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the Land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the Land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the Land of Canaan.
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the Land of Benjamin.
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the Land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. read more And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread. Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the Land of Judah. And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her. So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. show less
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the Land of Judah.
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the Land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the Land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your Land.
And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the Land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the Land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the Land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
And when they were come to the Land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the Land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the Land of Egypt.
And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the Land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the Land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the Land of Shual:
Now there was no smith found throughout all the Land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of Land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the Land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the Land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the Land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the Land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the Land.
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the Land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the Land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the Land of Egypt.
And David smote the Land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the Land.
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the Land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the Land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the Land of the Philistines, and out of the Land of Judah.
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the Land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the Land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the Land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy Land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the Land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the Land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the Land of the children of Ammon.
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the Land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the Land for Absalom.
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the Land.
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the Land.
Then they came to Gilead, and to the Land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
So when they had gone through all the Land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy Land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy Land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the Land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the Land.
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the Land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the Land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the Land of Egypt.
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the Land of Egypt.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the Land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy Land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
If there be in the Land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the Land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the Land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the Land of the enemy, far or near;
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the Land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the Land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the Land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their Land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
Then will I cut off Israel out of the Land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this Land, and to this house?
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the Land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the Land of Galilee.
And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the Land of Cabul unto this day.
And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the Land of his dominion.
Their children that were left after them in the Land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the Land of Edom.
And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own Land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him Land.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good Land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
And there were also sodomites in the Land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he took away the sodomites out of the Land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the Land of Naphtali.
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the Land. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. read more And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. show less
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the Land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
So they divided the Land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the Land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the Land.
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren Land.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of Land with stones.
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of Land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own Land.
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the Land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the Land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the Land of Israel.
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the Land of Israel.
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the Land seven years.
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the Land of the Philistines seven years.
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the Land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her Land.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her Land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the Land, even until now.
From Jordan eastward, all the Land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the Land.
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the Land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
And all the people of the Land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the Land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
And all the people of the Land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the Land at the coming in of the year.
And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the Land.
And Pul the king of Assyria came against the Land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the Land.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the Land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the Land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the Land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the Land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: read more And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own Land to Assyria unto this day. show less
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own Land to Assyria unto this day.
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the Land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the Land.
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the Land.
But the LORD, who brought you up out of the Land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this Land, and destroy it.
Until I come and take you away to a Land like your own Land, a Land of corn and wine, a Land of bread and vineyards, a Land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his Land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own Land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own Land.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the Land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the Land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
And the people of the Land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the Land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the Land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the Land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the Land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the Land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the Land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the Land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his Land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the Land.
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the Land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the Land.
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the Land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the Land, and threescore men of the people of the Land that were found in the city:
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the Land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their Land.
And as for the people that remained in the Land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the Land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
Now these are the kings that reigned in the Land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the Land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
And they found fat pasture and good, and the Land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the Land of Gilead.
And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east Land of Gilead.
And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the Land of Bashan unto Salchah:
And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the Land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the Land, whom God destroyed before them.
And they gave them Hebron in the Land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that Land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the Land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the Land.
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the Land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the Land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the Land?
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the Land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the Land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the Land into mine hand; and the Land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good Land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the Land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the Land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the Land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy Land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
If there be dearth in the Land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their Land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a Land far off or near;
Yet if they bethink themselves in the Land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the Land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the Land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their Land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the Land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their Land.
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my Land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this Land, and unto this house?
And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the Land of his dominion.
But of their children, who were left after them in the Land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the Land of Edom.
And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own Land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the Land of Judah.
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own Land, she and her servants.
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the Land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the Land was quiet ten years.
And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the Land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the Land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the Land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the Land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the Land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
And he set judges in the Land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this Land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the Land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the Land.
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the Land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
And all the people of the Land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the Land.
For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this Land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the Land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the Land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own Land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the Land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the Land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
But the people of the Land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the Land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the Land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the Land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
Then the people of the Land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the Land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the Land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Then the people of the Land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the Land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The Land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean Land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the Land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the Land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the Land, and from the strange wives.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the Land of captivity:
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the Land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any Land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the Land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his Land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry Land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the Land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the Land of Sihon, and the Land of the king of Heshbon, and the Land of Og king of Bashan.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the Land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
So the children went in and possessed the Land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the Land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the Land, that they might do with them as they would.
And they took strong cities, and a fat Land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat Land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the Land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the Land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
And if the people of the Land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the Land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
There was a man in the Land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the Land of darkness and the shadow of death;
A Land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the Land of the living.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the Land.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the Land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the Land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the Land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
For they got not the Land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the Land of the living. Selah.
{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty Land, where no water is;
He turned the sea into dry Land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry Land.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the Land.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the Land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the Land.
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the Land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy Land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the Land of forgetfulness?
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the Land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the Land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the Land was polluted with blood.
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the Land of the living.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty Land. Selah.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the Land of uprightness.
He that tilleth his Land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
For the transgression of a Land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
He that tilleth his Land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
The king by judgment establisheth the Land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Woe to thee, O Land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Blessed art thou, O Land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our Land;
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your Land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Their Land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their Land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
Their Land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the Land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the Land be utterly desolate,
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the Land.
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the Land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the Land of Assyria.
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the Land.
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the Land shall become briers and thorns.
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy Land, O Immanuel.
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the Land of Zebulun and the Land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the Land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the Land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the Land.
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the Land of Egypt.
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole Land.
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the Land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own Land.
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own Land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the Land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy Land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the Land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
That I will break the Assyrian in my Land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the Land.
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the Land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the Land.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose Land the rivers have spoiled!
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose Land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
And the Land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
In that day shall five cities in the Land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the Land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the Land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the Land:
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible Land.
The inhabitants of the Land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the Land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
Behold the Land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
The Land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the Land is gone.
When thus it shall be in the midst of the Land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
In that day shall this song be sung in the Land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the Land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the Land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the Land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the Land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary Land.
Upon the Land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the Land that is very far off.
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the Land of Idumea.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their Land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the Land thereof shall become burning pitch.
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty Land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
And am I now come up without the LORD against this Land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this Land, and destroy it.
Until I come and take you away to a Land like your own Land, a Land of corn and wine, a Land of bread and vineyards.
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his Land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their Land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own Land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own Land.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the Land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the Land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry Land springs of water.
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the Land of Sinim.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the Land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the Land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the Land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Violence shall no more be heard in thy Land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the Land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their Land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy Land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy Land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy Land shall be married.
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the Land of Benjamin:
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the Land.
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole Land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the Land.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a Land that was not sown.
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the Land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a Land of deserts and of pits, through a Land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a Land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my Land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his Land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a Land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that Land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the Land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the Land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the Land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the Land of the north to the Land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant Land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the Land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy Land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole Land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole Land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your Land, so shall ye serve strangers in a Land that is not yours.
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a Land not inhabited.
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the Land, saith the LORD.
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the Land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the Land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the Land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the Land shall be desolate.
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole Land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the Land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the Land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the Land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the Land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a Land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the Land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the Land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
How long shall the Land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the Land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the Land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole Land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the Land even to the other end of the Land: no flesh shall have peace.
Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their Land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his Land.
Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this Land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the Land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this Land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a Land that they know not.
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the Land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a Land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this Land;
Both the great and the small shall die in this Land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Therefore will I cast you out of this Land into a Land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the Land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their Land that I gave unto their fathers.
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my Land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the Land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt Land and not inhabited.
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the Land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
To make their Land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this Land no more.
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a Land which they know not?
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own Land.
For the Land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the Land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the Land.
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the Land of the Chaldeans for their good.
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this Land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this Land, and them that dwell in the Land of Egypt:
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the Land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the Land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this Land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
And this whole Land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the Land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
And I will bring upon that Land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the Land of Uz, and all the kings of the Land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their Land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Then rose up certain of the elders of the Land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this Land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his Land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your Land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own Land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the Land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the Land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the Land of the enemy.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the Land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the Land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this Land.
Which hast set signs and wonders in the Land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the Land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
And hast given them this Land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a Land flowing with milk and honey;
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this Land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
And fields shall be bought in this Land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the Land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the Land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the Land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the Land.
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the Land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the Land where ye be strangers.
But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the Land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the Land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this Land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the Land of Judah.
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the Land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own Land.
Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the Land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. read more When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this Land? Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. show less
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this Land?
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the Land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the Land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the Land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the Land.
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the Land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the Land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the Land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the Land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the Land.
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the Land.
If ye will still abide in this Land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own Land.
But if ye say, We will not dwell in this Land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
Saying, No; but we will go into the Land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the Land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the Land of Judah.
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the Land of Judah;
So they came into the Land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
And when he cometh, he shall smite the Land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the Land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the Land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the Land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the Land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the Land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the Land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the Land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
For I will punish them that dwell in the Land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the Land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the Land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the Land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the Land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your Land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the Land of Egypt:
Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the Land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the Land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the Land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the Land of Egypt into the Land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the Land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole Land.
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the Land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the Land of Egypt.
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the Land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the Land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the Land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the Land shall howl.
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the Land of Moab, far or near.
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the Land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the Land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her Land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the Land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry Land, and a desert.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own Land.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his Land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Go up against the Land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the Land of the Chaldeans.
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the Land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the Land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the Land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the Land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her Land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
Thus the slain shall fall in the Land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their Land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Set ye up a standard in the Land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the Land of his dominion.
And the Land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the Land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Her cities are a desolation, a dry Land, and a wilderness, a Land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the Land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the Land, ruler against ruler.
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole Land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her Land the wounded shall groan.
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the Land of the Chaldeans:
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the Land.
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the Land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the Land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the Land; and threescore men of the people of the Land, that were found in the midst of the city.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the Land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own Land.
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the Land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the Land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the Land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the Land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the Land.
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the Land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the Land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the Land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the Land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this Land given in possession.
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the Land of Israel.
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the Land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
And say unto the people of the Land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the Land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her Land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the Land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the Land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the Land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Son of man, when the Land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the Land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the Land shall be desolate.
Or if I bring a sword upon that Land, and say, Sword, go through the Land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Or if I send a pestilence into that Land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
And I will make the Land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the Land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the Land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a Land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. He took also of the seed of the Land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
He took also of the seed of the Land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the Land:
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the Land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the Land of Egypt.
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the Land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the Land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the Land of Egypt into a Land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the Land of Egypt.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the Land of Egypt.
Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the Land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
For when I had brought them into the Land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the Land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the Land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the Land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the Land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the Land of Israel,
And say to the Land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one Land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the Land of thy nativity.
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the Land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the Land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
The people of the Land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the Land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the Land of their nativity:
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the Land of Egypt.
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the Land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the Land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the Land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the Land of Israel;
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the Land of the living;
Judah, and the Land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the Land;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their Land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
And the Land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the Land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
And I will make the Land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the Land of Pathros, into the Land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the Land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
I have given him the Land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the Land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the Land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the Land with the slain.
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the Land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the Land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the Land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the Land of Egypt.
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the Land of Egypt.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the Land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Then will I leave thee upon the Land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
I will also water with thy blood the Land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy Land, saith the Lord GOD.
When I shall make the Land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the Land of the living.
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the Land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the Land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the Land of the living.
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the Land of the living.
For I have caused my terror in the Land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a Land, if the people of the Land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
If when he seeth the sword come upon the Land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the Land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the Land: but we are many; the Land is given us for inheritance.
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the Land?
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the Land?
For I will lay the Land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the Land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own Land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the Land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their Land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the Land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the Land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my Land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Prophesy therefore concerning the Land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou Land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own Land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the Land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his Land.
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own Land.
And ye shall dwell in the Land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
And the desolate Land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
And they shall say, This Land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the Land of Israel.
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own Land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own Land:
And I will make them one nation in the Land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
And they shall dwell in the Land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the Land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the Land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the Land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the Land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the Land.
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the Land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my Land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the Land of Israel;
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the Land.
Yea, all the people of the Land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the Land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
And the passengers that pass through the Land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their Land, and none made them afraid.
Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own Land, and have left none of them any more there.
In the visions of God brought he me into the Land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the Land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the Land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
The holy portion of the Land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
In the Land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the Land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the Land a bullock for a sin offering.
Likewise the people of the Land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
But when the people of the Land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the Land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this Land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
And this shall be the border of the Land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the Land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
And this oblation of the Land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the Land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
This is the Land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the Land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant Land.
Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the Land.
And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the Land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own Land.
But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious Land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own Land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
Then shall he return into his Land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own Land.
Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the Land for gain.
He shall enter also into the glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the Land of Egypt shall not escape.
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the Land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the Land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry Land, and slay her with thirst.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the Land of Egypt.
Therefore shall the Land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the Land of Egypt.
They shall not dwell in the LORD'S Land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his Land they have made goodly images.
He shall not return into the Land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the Land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
And I that am the LORD thy God from the Land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the Land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the Land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. read more For a nation is come up upon my Land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. The field is wasted, the Land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the Land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. show less
For a nation is come up upon my Land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
The field is wasted, the Land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the Land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the Land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the Land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a Land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their Land.
Also I brought you up from the Land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the Land of the Amorite.
Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the Land of Egypt, saying,
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the Land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the Land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her Land; there is none to raise her up.
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the Land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the Land is not able to bear all his words.
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own Land.
Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the Land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
Shall not the Land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the Land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the Land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the Land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
And I will plant them upon their Land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their Land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the Land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our Land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
And they shall waste the Land of Assyria with the sword, and the Land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our Land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Notwithstanding the Land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
According to the days of thy coming out of the Land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy Land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the Land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the Land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the Land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the Land of Midian did tremble.
Thou didst march through the Land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the Land, saith the LORD.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole Land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the Land.
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the Land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every Land where they have been put to shame.
And I called for a drought upon the Land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the Land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry Land;
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the Land of Judah to scatter it.
Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the Land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy Land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that Land in one day.
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the Land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Speak unto all the people of the Land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the Land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant Land desolate.
The burden of the word of the LORD in the Land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his Land.
I will bring them again also out of the Land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the Land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the Land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the Land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the Land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
And the Land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the Land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the Land.
And it shall come to pass, that in all the Land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
All the Land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome Land, saith the LORD of hosts.
And thou Bethlehem, in the Land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the Land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the Land of Israel.
The Land of Zabulon, and the Land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and Land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
And there went out unto him all the Land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the Land. And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. read more And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? show less
And when they had passed over, they came into the Land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole Land until the ninth hour.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the Land;
And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the Land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.
And when he went forth to Land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
It is neither fit for the Land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that Land; and he began to be in want.
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the Land, and wrath upon this people.
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the Land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the Land whither they went.
And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from Land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to Land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the Land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the Land which I shall shew thee.
Then came he out of the Land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this Land, wherein ye now dwell.
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange Land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
Now there came a dearth over all the Land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the Land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the Land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the Land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the Land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the Land of Chanaan, he divided their Land to them by lot.
And when it was day, they knew not the Land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to Land:
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to Land.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the Land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
By faith he sojourned in the Land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry Land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the Land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
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