Israel Giving Up Gaza

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. — read the full passage →

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. — read the full passage →

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. — read the full passage →

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. — read the full passage →

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, — read the full passage →

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. — read the full passage →

A little yeast grows through the whole lump. — read the full passage →

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. — read the full passage →

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. — read the full passage →

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, — read the full passage →

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” — read the full passage →

He left everything, and rose up and followed him. — read the full passage →

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. — read the full passage →

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. — read the full passage →

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. — read the full passage →

He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? — read the full passage →

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.” — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: — read the full passage →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit. — read the full passage →

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. — read the full passage →

Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. — read the full passage →

Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. — read the full passage →

Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. — read the full passage →

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. — read the full passage →

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. — read the full passage →

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing. — read the full passage →

For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. — read the full passage →

The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. — read the full passage →

For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.” — read the full passage →

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; — read the full passage →

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him. — read the full passage →

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge. — read the full passage →

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! — read the full passage →

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. — read the full passage →

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. — read the full passage →

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. — read the full passage →

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. — read the full passage →

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand. — read the full passage →

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. — read the full passage →

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you. — read the full passage →

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man: — read the full passage →

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. — read the full passage →

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. — read the full passage →

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. — read the full passage →

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. — read the full passage →

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.” — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? — read the full passage →

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

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him. — read the full passage →

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment. — read the full passage →

He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. — read the full passage →

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

He said, “Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? — read the full passage →

Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is day! What? Even now.

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. — read the full passage →

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.” — read the full passage →

So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it. — read the full passage →

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have set before you this day life and prosperity, and death and evil. — read the full passage →

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. — read the full passage →

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” — read the full passage →

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. — read the full passage →

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell. — read the full passage →

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.” — read the full passage →

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.”

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened. — read the full passage →

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. — read the full passage →

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from your midst. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. — read the full passage →