Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?

A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth–el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

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?

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.

Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

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

And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth–gilead.

These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.

So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:

And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

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 they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.

And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

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.

So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,

And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.

And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.

And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

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 that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.