15The allotment for the tribe of Judah, clan by clan, extended down to the territory of Edom, to the Desert of Zin in the extreme south. 2Their southern boundary started from the bay at the southern end of the Salt Sea, 3crossed south of Scorpion Pas
1In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo: 2The Lord was very angry with your forefathers. 3Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says:
1Then I looked up-and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand! 2I asked, Where are you going? He answered me, To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is. 3Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another
1Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord , and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. 2The Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord , who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this m
1Then the angel who talked with me returned and wakened me, as a man is wakened from his sleep. 2He asked me, What do you see? I answered, I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lights on it, with seven channels to the lights.
1I looked again-and there before me was a flying scroll! 2He asked me, What do you see? I answered, I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide. 3And he said to me, This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for accor
1I looked up again-and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains-mountains of bronze! 2The first chariot had red horses, the second black, 3the third white, and the fourth dappled-all of them powerful. 4I asked the ang
1The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, 2Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that survived
1In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before; 2so the king asked me, Why does your face look so sad when you are no
1Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the Tower of Hananel. 2The men o
1When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, 2and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore the
1Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers. 2Some were saying, We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain. 3Others were saying, We are mortgaging our fie
1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put it in writing: 2This is what Cyrus king
1Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town, 2in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua
1This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush : 2At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, 3and in the third year of his reign he gave a b
1Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. 2Then the king's personal attendants proposed, Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. 3Let the k
21When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them. 2Then Israel made this vow to the Lord : If you will deliver these people into ou
24Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as at other times, but turned his face toward the desert. 2When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him 3an
23Balaam said, Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me. 2Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 3Then Balaam said to Balak, Stay here beside your offering while I go asi
22Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho. 2Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites, 3and Moab was terrified because there were so many people. Indeed, Moab was f