1 Kings 21:19

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

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

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.” ’ ”

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

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

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

“ ‘ “For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

A revelation, Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”