Genesis 12:11

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

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

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?” ’

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.

The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.