Chapter 2<\/h4>

3<\/small><\/span> God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#9: Moses Parts The Red Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 14<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> \"Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.\" They did so.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, \"What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> They said to Moses, \"Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.\"\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Moses said to the people, \"Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.\"\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Moses, \"Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.\"\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, \"Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!\"\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Moses, \"Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.\"\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#8: Gideon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 6<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#7: Joshua And the Battle Of Jericho<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 5<\/h4>

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

7<\/small><\/span> Their children, whom he raised up in their place, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> It happened, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, until they were whole.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> They ate of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the same day.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#6: Abraham And Isaac<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 22<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, \"Abraham!\" He said, \"Here I am.\"\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> He said, \"Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.\"\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Abraham said to his young men, \"Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, \"My father?\" He said, \"Here I am, my son.\" He said, \"Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?\"\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Abraham said, \"God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.\" So they both went together.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, \"Abraham, Abraham!\" He said, \"Here I am.\"\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> He said, \"Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.\"\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, \"On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided.\"\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> and said, \"I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.\"\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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Top 10 Favorite Children\u2019s Bible Stories Honorable Mentions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are so many great stories, we didn\u2019t have nearly enough room on our list for them all. From Saul to Elijah to Elisha, we had to leave off some amazing stories. Here is our honorable mention list of the Top 10 Favorite Children\u2019s Bible Stories.<\/p>\n

Esau Sells His Birthright For A Bowl Of Stew<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 25<\/h4>

19<\/small><\/span> This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> The children struggled together within her. She said, \"If it be so, why do I live?\" She went to inquire of Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to her, \"Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.\"\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Esau said to Jacob, \"Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.\" Therefore his name was called Edom.\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Jacob said, \"First, sell me your birthright.\"\r\n<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> Esau said, \"Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?\"\r\n<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> Jacob said, \"Swear to me first.\" He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.\r\n<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

Hannah Prays For A Son<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Elkanah her husband said to her, \"Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?\"\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> She vowed a vow, and said, \"Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.\"\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli saw her mouth.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Eli said to her, \"How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.\"\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Hannah answered, \"No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.\"\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Then Eli answered, \"Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.\"\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> She said, \"Let your handmaid find favor in your sight.\" So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], \"Because I have asked him of Yahweh.\"\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, \"Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.\"\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> Elkanah her husband said to her, \"Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.\" So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh's house in Shiloh. The child was young.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> She said, \"Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is granted to Yahweh.\" He worshiped Yahweh there.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

The Lord Calls Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 3<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, \"Here I am.\"\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> He ran to Eli, and said, \"Here I am; for you called me.\" He said, \"I didn't call; lie down again.\" He went and lay down.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Yahweh called yet again, \"Samuel!\" Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, \"Here I am; for you called me.\" He answered, \"I didn't call, my son; lie down again.\"\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed to him.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, \"Here I am; for you called me.\" Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Therefore Eli said to Samuel, \"Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.'\" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, \"Samuel! Samuel!\" Then Samuel said, \"Speak; for your servant hears.\"\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Samuel, \"Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering forever.\"\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Then Eli called Samuel, and said, \"Samuel, my son!\" He said, \"Here I am.\"\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He said, \"What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.\"\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, \"It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.\"\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

Sampson and Delilah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 16<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> [It was told] the Gazites, saying, \"Samson is here!\" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, \"Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Delilah said to Samson, \"Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.\"\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Samson said to her, \"If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.\"\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, \"The Philistines are on you, Samson!\" He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Delilah said to Samson, \"Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.\"\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> He said to her, \"If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.\"\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, \"The Philistines are on you, Samson!\" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Delilah said to Samson, \"Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.\" He said to her, \"If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.\"\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, \"The Philistines are on you, Samson!\" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> She said to him, \"How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.\"\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He told her all his heart, and said to her, \"No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.\"\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, \"Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.\" Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> She said, \"The Philistines are upon you, Samson!\" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, \"I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.\" But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, \"Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.\"\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, \"Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.\"\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, \"Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.\" They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, \"Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.\"\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Samson called to Yahweh, and said, \"Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.\"\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Samson said, \"Let me die with the Philistines!\" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#5: Noah\u2019s Ark<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 6<\/h4>

8<\/small><\/span> But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#4: Joseph And His Multi-Colored Coat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 37<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.\"<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> His brothers said to him, \"Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?\" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, \"Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.\"<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, \"What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?\"<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> His brothers envied him; but his father kept this saying in mind.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Israel said to Joseph, \"Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.\" He said to him, \"Here I am.\"<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> He said to him, \"Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.\" So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, \"What are you looking for?\"<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> He said, \"I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.\"<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> The man said, \"They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'\" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> They said one to another, \"Behold, this dreamer comes.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams.\"<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, \"Let's not take his life.\"<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Reuben said to them, \"Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him\" - that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Judah said to his brothers, \"What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.\" His brothers listened to him.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> He returned to his brothers, and said, \"The child is no more; and I, where will I go?\"<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, \"We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not.\"<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> He recognized it, and said, \"It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.\"<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, \"For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.\" His father wept for him.<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.<\/p><\/div>\n

Chapter 41<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, \"I remember my faults today.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him.\"\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Pharaoh said to Joseph, \"I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.\"\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, \"It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.\"\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, \"In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.\"\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> Joseph said to Pharaoh, \"The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.\r\n<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.\r\n<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> \"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.\r\n<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.\r\n<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.\r\n<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.\"\r\n<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.\r\n<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> Pharaoh said to his servants, \"Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?\"\r\n<\/p>

39<\/small><\/span> Pharaoh said to Joseph, \"Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.\r\n<\/p>

40<\/small><\/span> You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.\"\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#3: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 3<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> and whoever doesn't fall down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> and whoever doesn't fall down and worships, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded you: they don't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you don't serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came forth out of the midst of the fire.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the province of Babylon.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#2: Daniel In The Lion\u2019s Den<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 6<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict: Haven't you signed an interdict, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#1: David And Goliath<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 17<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, \"Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you will be our servants, and serve us.\"\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The Philistine said, \"I defy the armies of Israel this day! Give me a man, that we may fight together!\"\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Jesse said to David his son, \"Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.\"\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> The men of Israel said, \"Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.\"\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, \"What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?\"\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> The people answered him in this way, saying, \"So shall it be done to the man who kills him.\"\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, \"Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.\"\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> David said, \"What have I now done? Is there not a cause?\"\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.\r\n<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> David said to Saul, \"Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.\"\r\n<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> Saul said to David, \"You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.\"\r\n<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> David said to Saul, \"Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,\r\n<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.\r\n<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.\"\r\n<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> David said, \"Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.\" Saul said to David, \"Go; and Yahweh shall be with you.\"\r\n<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of brass on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.\r\n<\/p>

39<\/small><\/span> David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, \"I can't go with these; for I have not tested them.\" David took them off.\r\n<\/p>

40<\/small><\/span> He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. His sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.\r\n<\/p>

41<\/small><\/span> The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.\r\n<\/p>

42<\/small><\/span> When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face.\r\n<\/p>

43<\/small><\/span> The Philistine said to David, \"Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?\" The Philistine cursed David by his gods.\r\n<\/p>

44<\/small><\/span> The Philistine said to David, \"Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.\"\r\n<\/p>

45<\/small><\/span> Then David said to the Philistine, \"You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.\r\n<\/p>

46<\/small><\/span> Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,\r\n<\/p>

47<\/small><\/span> and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand.\"\r\n<\/p>

48<\/small><\/span> It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.\r\n<\/p>

49<\/small><\/span> David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.\r\n<\/p>

50<\/small><\/span> So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.\r\n<\/p>

51<\/small><\/span> Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.\r\n<\/p>

52<\/small><\/span> The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.\r\n<\/p>

53<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.\r\n<\/p>

54<\/small><\/span> David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.\r\n<\/p>

55<\/small><\/span> When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, \"Abner, whose son is this youth?\" Abner said, \"As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.\"\r\n<\/p>

56<\/small><\/span> The king said, \"Inquire whose son the young man is!\"\r\n<\/p>

57<\/small><\/span> As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.\r\n<\/p>

58<\/small><\/span> Saul said to him, \"Whose son are you, you young man?\" David answered, \"I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.\"\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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