1 Kings 13:31

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

“All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.

“All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.

“All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

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

Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.