Nehemiah 13:21

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.

Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.

Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

Blessed be Yahweh’s name, from this time forward and forever more.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

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

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

“Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.