And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.

The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.

And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:

But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:

Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,

And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

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

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,

And she named the child I–chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.

Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.

Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

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

Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

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

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

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

He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,

And they had in their inheritance Beer–sheba, Sheba, and Moladah,

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

And 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.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

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

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.

And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

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.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai–roi.

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.

Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, Saul’s sons.

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?

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,

And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

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

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,

Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these.

And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah–jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;