Africa

And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: — read the full passage →

And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship; — read the full passage →

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? — read the full passage →

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock. — read the full passage →

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.

But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, she came to prove him with hard questions. — read the full passage →

And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. — read the full passage →

The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; — read the full passage →

Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God. — read the full passage →

Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying, — read the full passage →

Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin), — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Jehovah, — read the full passage →

And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. — read the full passage →

The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. — read the full passage →

For then will I turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

Now there were at Antioch, in the church that wasthere, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute: The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces),

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians: — read the full passage →

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. — read the full passage →

Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. — read the full passage →

Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that Jehovah hath avenged him of his enemies. — read the full passage →

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt. — read the full passage →

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: he abode over against all his brethren.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

The word of Jehovah which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.

even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, wherewith to overlay the walls of the houses;

In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh-necoh slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; — read the full passage →

And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. — read the full passage →

When thou art come unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me; — read the full passage →

In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven.

I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. — read the full passage →

And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come. — read the full passage →

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. — read the full passage →

And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame; — read the full passage →

In the tenth year, in the tenthmonth, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. — read the full passage →

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — read the full passage →

And when it came to pass that we were parted from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course unto Cos, and the next day unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara: — read the full passage →

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. — read the full passage →

But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue calledthe synagogueof the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt understand hereafter.

And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! — read the full passage →

and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven. — read the full passage →

And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.

And as he went forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Teacher, behold, what manner of stones and what manner of buildings! — read the full passage →

Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the harlot after their abominations? — read the full passage →

Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these. — read the full passage →

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. — read the full passage →

Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. — read the full passage →

In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. — read the full passage →

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying, — read the full passage →

Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. — read the full passage →

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein. — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. — read the full passage →

But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. — read the full passage →

Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; — read the full passage →

When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth; But the righteous shall look upon their fall. — read the full passage →

By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone. — read the full passage →

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put under taskwork. — read the full passage →

Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jehovah. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of his power. — read the full passage →

Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints.

O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever. — read the full passage →

His foundation is in the holy mountains. — read the full passage →

Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. — read the full passage →

Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge. — read the full passage →

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. — read the full passage →

If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; — read the full passage →

In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years. — read the full passage →

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. — read the full passage →

The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. — read the full passage →

The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive unto Babylon. — read the full passage →

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites. — read the full passage →