Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.
When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.
But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.
And the old man said, peace be with you; let all your needs be my care; only do not take your rest in the street.
Keep your eyes on the field they are cutting, and go after them; have I not given orders to the young men not to put a hand on you? And when you are in need of drink go to the vessels and take of what the young men have put there.
Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.
That day they overcame the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were feeble from need of food.
Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.
May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!
And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.
Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;
And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.
(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.
So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
Now elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.
And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.
And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.
And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.
And gold by weight for the light-supports and the vessels for the lights, the weight of gold needed for every support and every vessel for lights; and for the silver light-supports, the weight of silver needed for every support and for the different vessels as every one was to be used;
And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.
Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.
And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.
And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.
If evil comes on us, the sword, or punishment, or disease, or need of food, we will come to this house and to you, (for your name is in this house,) crying to you in our trouble, and you will give us salvation in answer to our cry.
There will be no need for you to take up arms in this fight; put yourselves in position, and keep where you are, and you will see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: have no fear and do not be troubled: go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.
And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.
As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions.
Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?
And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.
So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.
Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.
And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:
And whatever more is needed for the house of your God, and which you may have to give, take it from the king's store-house.
And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care,
And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gave the people and the house of God the help which was needed.
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.
And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.
Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.
For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.
And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.
Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;
And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.
Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):
The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.
Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.
The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.
Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
<A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.
For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.
May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.
My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.
Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.
A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.
The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:
The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.
Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.
And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.
But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.
And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.
And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.
And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
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