Now elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!
He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.
And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.
But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.
And when the philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them.
Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.
Let the sea be thundering with all its waters; let the field be glad, and everything which is in it;
He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned.
Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.
Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.
He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.
Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.
And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in place of his father David, and everything went well for him; and all Israel was under his authority.
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 the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.
So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.
If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:
If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.
Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.
And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.
Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.
There were six steps up to it, and a foot-rest of gold fixed to it, and arms on the two sides of the seat, with two lions at the side of the arms.
But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.
In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.
Then he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, and all the army of heaven in their places, at his right hand and at his left.
And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar (which is En-gedi).
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.
And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.
And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.
And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.
And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.
Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom.
And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.
He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.
And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.
So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.
And I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.
So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.
Then darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.
And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.
And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.
Joiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, made good the old doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.
By their side were working Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of gibeon and of Mizpah from the seat of the ruler across the river.
The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah,
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.
And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;
By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.
There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:
And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.
In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's doorway, two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the door, being angry, were looking for a chance to make an attack on King Ahasuerus.
Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.
But all this is nothing to me while I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's doorway.
Then the king said to Haman, Go quickly, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who is seated at the king's doorway: see that you do everything as you have said.
Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.
And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.
And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.
For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:
Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:
By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:
Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.
Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.
Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.
The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,
He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
There is no searching out of the ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.
Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
<To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.
The meeting of the nations will be round you; take your seat, then, over them, on high.
The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.
For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.
Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.
But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.
I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.
I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.
The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.
He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.
I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.
Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.
But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.
Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;
God is the ruler over the nations; God is on the high seat of his holy rule.
God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.
<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;
You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.
The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
The Lord said, I will make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts of the sea;
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
Let the heavens and the earth give praise to him, the seas, and everything moving in them.
Let his kingdom be from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.
The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.
The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.
The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.
He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,
When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;
He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.
He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.
<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.
The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.
I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.
He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.
No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.
The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.
The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;
The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.
Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it;
The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.
He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;
The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.
There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.
Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
By his word the Red sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.
And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.
Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.
So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.
Then phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.
Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in the great waters;
Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.
<A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.
Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.
What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?
Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.
I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David.
<A song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.
To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
By him pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.
Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:
Give praise to the Lord from the earth, you great sea-beasts, and deep places:
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.
He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.
A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.
A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
Mercy and good faith keep the king safe, and the seat of his power is based on upright acts.
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.
Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.
All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.
And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;
Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.
The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.
While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.
He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.
The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.
And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, galilee of the nations.
Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Most of the teaching of Jesus are recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Complete Sayings of Jesus presents every word spoken by Jesus in one place and provides an index to assist in finding specific ocassions, places and/or events. It is a must read aid for serious Bible study.
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they direct us to imitate his life and character. The Imitation of Christ is guide to following the example of Jesus Christ. Let it be our most earnest study to dwell upon the life and example of Jesus.
The Apocrypha books are 14 books that were included between the old and new testaments in the original King James Version of the bible and many others. Church leaders agreed that these books were valuable for instruction in life and manners, but did not all agree that they should be considered cannon.
The Childrens Bible provides bible lessons from the Old and New testaments. There are 216 stories written in plain english. The stories are easy to read and understand but they are not just for childern. It is a pleasure to read and enjoy these important stories.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
The Gospel of The Birth of Mary was attributed to St. Matthew and was received as genuine and authentic by early Christians. It is to be found in the works of Jerome, a Father of the Church in the 4th century and is translated from his collection.
The Book of Enoch is ascribed to the great-grandfather of Noah and is included in the cannon of some churches. It describes the fall of the angels (watchers), visions of heaven and hell and the birth of Noah. Quotes from the book of Enoch are found in the New Testament.
The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
The Second Book of Adam and Eve. Discusses Adam's sorrow and death. The history of the patriarchs who lived before the Flood until the birth of Noah; the children of Seth on Mount Hermon and Cain's death. It ends with the testament and translation of Enoch.
The Infancy of Jesus Christ (Infancy Gospel of Thomas) relates the life of Jesus from the ages of five to twelve. It is believed that the document was transcribed from oral traditions some time prior to the second century. The ancient writing is possibly Gnostic and many early church leaders considered it heretical.
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