אַחֲרוֹן

and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,

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.

The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote.

Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

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.

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.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

“He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.

But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”