And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

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.

And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

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 they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

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,

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

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 his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

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

And the men of Beth–shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En–dor.

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish–bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine?

We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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.

Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi–ezer?

Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

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?

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.

God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

And the men of Beth–shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

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.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his saying, which the Lord spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.