Palestine

`And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

for he is ruling over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and unto Gaza, over all the kings beyond the river, and he hath peace from all his servants round about.

And Solomon hath been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River <FI>to<Fi> the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt: they are bringing nigh a present, and serving Solomon, all days of his life.

In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat, — read the full passage →

From this wilderness and Lebanon, and unto the great river, the river Phrath, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great Sea--the going in of the sun--is your border.

And Abram taketh Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come in to the land of Canaan. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;

And it hath come to pass, in that day, I seek to destroy all the nations Who are coming in against Jerusalem,

And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, `Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou <FI>art<Fi> , northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; — read the full passage →

`Thus said the Lord Jehovah: This <FI>is<Fi> the border whereby ye inherit the land, according to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph <FI>hath<Fi> portions. — read the full passage →

And he is ruling over all the kings from the River even unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt.

turn ye and journey for you, and enter the mount of the Amorite, and unto all its neighbouring places, in the plain, in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Phrat; — read the full passage →

For Gaza is forsaken, And Ashkelon <FI>is<Fi> for a desolation, Ashdod! at noon they do cast her forth, And Ekron is rooted up.

He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations, — read the full passage →

And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions. — read the full passage →

Peoples have heard, they are troubled; Pain hath seized inhabitants of Philistia.

And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. — read the full passage →

Therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And I have assembled you from the peoples, And I have gathered you from the lands, Into which ye have been scattered, And I have given to you the ground of Israel.

and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land, unto a land good and broad, unto a land flowing with milk and honey--unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

And I have sent a fire against the wall of Gaza, And it hath consumed her palaces; — read the full passage →

and also I have established My covenant with them, to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they have sojourned;

and I say unto thee, Send away My son, and he doth serve Me; and--thou dost refuse to send him away--lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born.'

The burden of a word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and Demmeseh--his place of rest: (When to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the eye of man, And of all the tribes of Israel.) — read the full passage →

And I have turned back <FI>to<Fi> the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit. — read the full passage →

I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty--yet thou art rich--and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but <FI>are<Fi> a synagogue of the Adversary. — read the full passage →

and it cometh to pass, in thy hearing the sound of a stepping in the tops of the mulberries, then thou dost move sharply, for then hath Jehovah gone out before thee to smite in the camp of the Philistines.'

And Jehovah giveth to Israel the whole of the land which He hath sworn to give to their fathers, and they possess it, and dwell in it; — read the full passage →

Did not the Cushim and the Lubim become a very great force for multitude, for chariot, and for horsemen? and in thy leaning on Jehovah He gave them into thy hand, — read the full passage →

saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and be going to the land of Israel, for they have died--those seeking the life of the child.' — read the full passage →

Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit <FI>is<Fi> a flying saraph. — read the full passage →

for from Jehovah it hath been to strengthen their heart, to meet in battle with Israel, in order to devote them, so that they have no grace, but in order to destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, — read the full passage →

And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her; — read the full passage →

and their dead bodies <FI>are<Fi> upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,) — read the full passage →

and there went forth another horse--red, and to him who is sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was given to him a great sword. — read the full passage →

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon, — read the full passage →

All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked <FI>worketh<Fi> for a day of evil. — read the full passage →

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,

If thus he say: Good; peace <FI>is<Fi> for thy servant; and if it be very displeasing to him--know that the evil hath been determined by him;

`See, I have set before thee to-day life and good, and death and evil, — read the full passage →

`And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, <FI>are<Fi> for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling,

if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey; — read the full passage →

`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause <FI>others<Fi> to turn aside; — read the full passage →

And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, `Give to us bread--why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'

and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

and if ye <FI>are<Fi> of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise--heirs. — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me; — read the full passage →

hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?' — read the full passage →

but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.' — read the full passage →

And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a man, and in his hand a measuring line. — read the full passage →

Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought <FI>it<Fi> home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? --an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running--each to his house,

The burden that Habakkuk the prophet hath seen: — read the full passage →

And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance. — read the full passage →

And I have sent a fire against Moab, And it hath consumed the palaces of Kerioth, And dying with noise is Moab, With shouting, with voice of a trumpet. — read the full passage →

And also now--an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation. — read the full passage →

And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me--My husband, And dost not call Me any more--My lord. — read the full passage →

`And by his understanding he hath also caused deceit to prosper in his hand, and in his heart he exerteth himself, and by ease he destroyeth many; and against the prince of princes he standeth--and without hand he is broken. — read the full passage →

`After this I was seeing, and lo, another like a leopard, and it hath four wings of a fowl on its back, and four heads hath the beast, and dominion is given to it. — read the full passage →

`And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed--to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age. — read the full passage →

I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done <FI>it<Fi> , I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.' — read the full passage →

That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smiteth Gaza: — read the full passage →

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars, — read the full passage →

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit. — read the full passage →

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

Full of stirs--a noisy city--an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle. — read the full passage →

In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur, And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians. — read the full passage →

A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up. — read the full passage →

A stone <FI>is<Fi> heavy, and the sand <FI>is<Fi> heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both. — read the full passage →

If <FI>from<Fi> delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter--thou keepest back. — read the full passage →

The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth. — read the full passage →

A fool delighteth not in understanding, But--in uncovering his heart. — read the full passage →

Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright--a pleasing thing. — read the full passage →

And the Ashdodites rise early on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah; and they take Dagon, and put it back to its place. — read the full passage →

and Gideon maketh it into an ephod, and setteth it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go a-whoring after it there, and it is to Gideon and to his house for a snare. — read the full passage →

and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods; — read the full passage →

keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on a fourth.' — read the full passage →

unleavened things are eaten the seven days, and any thing fermented is not seen with thee; yea, leaven is not seen with thee in all thy border. — read the full passage →

And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, `Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan; — read the full passage →

and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Behold thou <FI>art<Fi> conceiving, and bearing a son, and hast called his name Ishmael, for Jehovah hath hearkened unto thine affliction; — read the full passage →

and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

and I saw <FI>come<Fi> out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs-- — read the full passage →

a two-souled man <FI>is<Fi> unstable in all his ways. — read the full passage →

and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place. — read the full passage →

And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land, — read the full passage →

Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, And the sons of the land of the covenant with them by sword do fall, — read the full passage →

`And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word--I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel. — read the full passage →

`For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets who <FI>are<Fi> in your midst, and your diviners, lift you up, nor hearken ye unto their dreams, that ye are causing <FI>them<Fi> to dream; — read the full passage →

And in prophets of Samaria I have seen folly, They have prophesied by Baal, And cause my people--Israel--to err. — read the full passage →

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah maketh for himself horns of iron, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, — read the full passage →

And they declare to David, saying, `Lo, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are spoiling the threshing-floors.' — read the full passage →

`At this time tomorrow, I send unto thee a man out of the land of Benjamin--and thou hast anointed him for leader over My people Israel, and he hath saved My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen My people, for its cry hath come in unto Me.' — read the full passage →

and saith: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.' — read the full passage →