2 Samuel 6:18

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.

Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.

Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.

King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.

All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.

The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,