Genesis 49:7

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.

Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”

The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.

They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:

All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

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

Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”

As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’ ”

But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.

Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Yahweh’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the elders.

The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”