2 Samuel 21:15

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.

The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.

and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.

After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.