Ophrah Of The Abiezrites

And Gideon buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and calleth it Jehovah-Shalom, unto this day it <FI>is<Fi> yet in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrites.

And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of Midian seven years, — read the full passage →

And Jerubbaal (he <FI>is<Fi> Gideon) riseth early, and all the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian hath been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley. — read the full passage →

And he saith unto him, `O, my lord, wherewith do I save Israel? lo, my chief <FI>is<Fi> weak in Manasseh, and I the least in the house of my father.'

And he removeth from thence towards a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretcheth out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah.

and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, `Entice him, and see wherein his great power <FI>is<Fi> , and wherein we are able for him--and we have bound him to afflict him, and we--we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.'

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

and Joshua saith, `By this ye know that the living God <FI>is<Fi> in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite:

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, this <FI>is<Fi> My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.

These <FI>are<Fi> sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

and he judgeth Israel twenty and three years, and he dieth, and is buried in Shamir.

and he goeth into the house of his father at Ophrah, and slayeth his brethren, sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone; and Jotham, youngest son of Jerubbaal, is left, for he was hidden.

And Gideon son of Joash dieth, in a good old age, and is buried in the burying-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrite.

And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thing thou hast done to us--not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?' and they strive with him severely; — read the full passage →

And Gideon saith unto God, `If Thou art Saviour of Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken, — read the full passage →

And the men of the city rise early in the morning, and lo, broken down hath been the altar of Baal, and the shrine which is by it hath been cut down, and the second bullock hath been offered on the altar which is built.

and thou hast built an altar to Jehovah thy God on the top of this stronghold, by the arrangement, and hast taken the second bullock, and caused to ascend a burnt-offering with the wood of the shrine which thou cuttest down.'

And Jehovah saith to him, `Peace to thee; fear not; thou dost not die.'

And the messenger of Jehovah putteth forth the end of the staff which <FI>is<Fi> in His hand, and cometh against the flesh, and against the unleavened things, and the fire goeth up out of the rock and consumeth the flesh and the unleavened things--and the messenger of Jehovah hath gone from his eyes.

And Jehovah saith unto him, `Because I am with thee--thou hast smitten the Midianites as one man.'

And Jehovah turneth unto him and saith, `Go in this--thy power; and thou hast saved Israel out of the hand of Midian--have not I sent thee.'

and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Serah, which <FI>is<Fi> in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the hill of Gaash.

`And I give to you a land for which thou hast not laboured, and cities which ye have not built, and ye dwell in them; of vineyards and olive-yards which ye have not planted ye are eating.

God <FI>is<Fi> not a man--and lieth, And a son of man--and repenteth! Hath He said--and doth He not do <FI>it<Fi> ? And spoken--and doth He not confirm it?

and Moses buildeth an altar, and calleth its name Jehovah-Nissi,

and Abraham calleth the name of that place `Jehovah-Jireh,' because it is said this day in the mount, `Jehovah doth provide.'

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom <FI>is<Fi> honour and might age-during! Amen.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? do I not wash in them and I have been clean?' and he turneth and goeth on in fury.

and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it--a thousand men.

And Jephthah judged Israel six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth, and is buried in <FI>one of<Fi> the cities of Gilead.

And he saith, `Go;' and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;

then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon--it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it--a burnt-offering.'

and Abimelech son of Jerubbaal goeth to Shechem, unto his mother's brethren, and speaketh unto them, and unto all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, — read the full passage →

And he calleth him, on that day, Jerubbaal, saying, `The Baal doth plead against him, because he hath broken down his altar.'

And it cometh to pass, on that night, that Jehovah saith to him, `Take the young ox which <FI>is<Fi> to thy father, and the second bullock of seven years, and thou hast thrown down the altar of Baal which <FI>is<Fi> to thy father, and the shrine which <FI>is<Fi> by it thou dost cut down,

And Gideon seeth that He <FI>is<Fi> a messenger of Jehovah, and Gideon saith, `Alas, Lord Jehovah! because that I have seen a messenger of Jehovah face to face!'

And Gideon hath gone in, and prepareth a kid of the goats, and of an ephah of flour unleavened things; the flesh he hath put in a basket, and the broth he hath put in a pot, and he bringeth out unto Him, unto the place of the oak, and bringeth <FI>it<Fi> nigh.

And he saith unto Him, `If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, then Thou hast done for me a sign that Thou art speaking with me.

and the messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto him, and saith unto him, `Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with thee, O mighty one of valour.'

And the messenger of Jehovah cometh and sitteth under the oak which <FI>is<Fi> in Ophrah, which <FI>is<Fi> to Joash the Abi-Ezrite, and Gideon his son is beating out wheat in the wine-press, to remove <FI>it<Fi> from the presence of the Midianites; — read the full passage →

And the messenger of Jehovah cometh and sitteth under the oak which <FI>is<Fi> in Ophrah, which <FI>is<Fi> to Joash the Abi-Ezrite, and Gideon his son is beating out wheat in the wine-press, to remove <FI>it<Fi> from the presence of the Midianites;

And it cometh to pass when the sons of Israel have cried unto Jehovah, concerning Midian,

And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of Midian seven years, — read the full passage →

And Deborah singeth--also Barak son of Abinoam--on that day, saying: -- — read the full passage →

And God humbleth on that day Jabin king of Canaan before the sons of Israel,

And Jael wife of Heber taketh the pin of the tent, and taketh the hammer in her hand, and goeth unto him gently, and striketh the pin into his temples, and it fasteneth in the earth--and he hath been fast asleep, and is weary--and he dieth.

And she sendeth and calleth for Barak son of Abinoam, out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and saith unto him, `Hath not Jehovah, God of Israel, commanded? go, and thou hast drawn towards mount Tabor, and hast taken with thee ten thousand men, out of the sons of Naphtali, and out of the sons of Zebulun,

And Deborah, a woman inspired, wife of Lapidoth, she is judging Israel at that time,

And after him hath been Shamgar son of Anath, and he smiteth the Philistines--six hundred men--with an ox-goad, and he saveth--he also--Israel.

and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel; and the land resteth eighty years.

and the land resteth forty years. And Othniel son of Kenaz dieth,

and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, and Jehovah raiseth a saviour to the sons of Israel, and he saveth them--Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother;

And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

and the man goeth to the land of the Hittites, and buildeth a city, and calleth its name Luz--it <FI>is<Fi> its name unto this day.

And the Jebusite, inhabiting Jerusalem, the sons of Benjamin have not dispossessed; and the Jebusite dwelleth with the sons of Benjamin, in Jerusalem, till this day.

And it cometh to pass, after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel ask at Jehovah, saying, `Who doth go up for us unto the Canaanite, at the commencement, to fight against it?'

And Joshua saith unto the people, `Ye are not able to serve Jehovah, for a God most holy He <FI>is<Fi> ; a zealous God He <FI>is<Fi> ; He doth not bear with your transgression and with your sins.

`And we say, And it hath been, when they say <FI>so<Fi> unto us, and unto our generations hereafter, that we have said, See the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made--not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice--but a witness it <FI>is<Fi> between us and you.

<FI> we are<Fi> building for ourselves an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to cause to go up on it burnt-offering and present, and if to make on it peace-offerings--Jehovah Himself doth require <FI>it<Fi> .

`Thus said all the company of Jehovah, What <FI>is<Fi> this trespass which ye have trespassed against the God of Israel, to turn back to-day from after Jehovah, by your building for you an altar, for your rebelling to-day against Jehovah?

And the sons of Israel hear, saying, `Lo, the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, have built the altar over-against the land of Canaan, on the districts of the Jordan, at the passage of the sons of Israel.'

and they come in unto the districts of the Jordan, which <FI>are<Fi> in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, build there an altar by the Jordan--a great altar for appearance.

And the sons of Israel give to the Levites, out of their inheritance, at the command of Jehovah, these cities and their suburbs:

for the sons of Joseph hath been two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they have not given a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, and their suburbs for their cattle, and for their possessions;

and to the tribe of Levi Moses gave not an inheritance; Jehovah, God of Israel, Himself <FI>is<Fi> their inheritance, as He hath spoken to them.

Only, to the tribe of Levi he hath not given an inheritance; fire-offerings of Jehovah, God of Israel, is its inheritance, as He hath spoken to it.

as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses--an altar of whole stones, over which he hath not waved iron--and they cause to go up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah, and sacrifice peace-offerings;

Then doth Joshua build an altar to Jehovah, God of Israel, in mount Ebal,

and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.

And he taketh about five thousand men, and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;

And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people.

And Joshua sendeth men from Jericho to Ai, which <FI>is<Fi> near Beth-Aven, on the east of Bethel, and speaketh unto them, saying, `Go up and spy the land;' and the men go up and spy Ai,

And Joshua adjureth <FI>them<Fi> at that time, saying, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> the man before Jehovah who raiseth up and hath built this city, <FI>even<Fi> Jericho; in his first-born he doth lay its foundation, and in his youngest he doth set up its doors;'

And He saith, `No, for I <FI>am<Fi> Prince of Jehovah's host; now I have come;' and Joshua falleth on his face to the earth, and doth obeisance, and saith to Him, `What is my Lord speaking unto His servant?'

even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.

And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over.

And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house <FI>is<Fi> in the side of the wall, and in the wall she <FI>is<Fi> dwelling;

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

`Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest;

be strong and courageous, for thou--thou dost cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.

And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat--thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

The Rock! --perfect <FI>is<Fi> His work, For all His ways <FI>are<Fi> just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright <FI>is<Fi> He.

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,

And the sons of Israel come in, --all the company--to the wilderness of Zin, in the first month, and the people abide in Kadesh, and Miriam dieth there, and is buried there.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

`And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

And Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses face unto face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and he hath turned back unto the camp, and his minister Joshua, son of Nun, a youth, departeth not out of the tent.

and I have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and have become their God,

`Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

and mount Sinai <FI>is<Fi> wholly a smoke from the presence of Jehovah, who hath come down on it in fire, and its smoke goeth up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mount trembleth exceedingly;