And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

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.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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!

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.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

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.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

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.

For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

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.

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.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

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.

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

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.

Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

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

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

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

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth–maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

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.

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

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.

He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

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 they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.