I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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 fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

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.

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.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham:

Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

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,

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying,

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

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.

As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.

For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

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.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,

Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.

The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

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.

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.

But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.

And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.

Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

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.

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

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.

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

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.

And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee.

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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.

And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:

Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh–barnea, and shall go on to Hazar–addar, and pass on to Azmon:

And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,