And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that he did for Israel.

And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth–maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion–geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath–shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

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

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.

And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.

And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar–enan: this shall be your north border.

And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.

And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.

For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:

Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

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

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.

The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O Lord.

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

And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.

And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.

For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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.

Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.

And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

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

So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren.

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

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.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

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

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.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

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

So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.

For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.