Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan.

For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.

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

Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, all the days of Solomon.

And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.

And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master’s son.

And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.

Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.

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.

Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

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

And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.

And his father in law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

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

God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.

And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

And they of Beth–shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.

Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me for ever.

And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.

From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.

So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

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

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

And they of Beth–shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

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

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

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

This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

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

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.