And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth–lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

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

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

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the Lord hath sent thee away.

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

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

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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

And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

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.

And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

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.

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

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

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

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.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

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,

Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.

So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath–jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

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

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

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

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

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?

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?

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.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

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

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

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

All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

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.

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

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

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

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.

And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.