These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 1
Tanakh 18 verses
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AND rebelled against after the death of .
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- 2 And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in , and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said unto them: ‘Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the of Ekron whether I shall recover of this sickness.’
- 3 But an of said to the Tishbite: ‘Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the of , and say unto them: Is it because there is no in , that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the of Ekron?
- 4 Now therefore thus saith : Thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.’ And departed.
- 5 And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them: ‘Why is it that ye are returned?’
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And they said unto him: ‘There came up a man to meet us, and said unto us: Go, return unto the that sent you, and say unto him: Thus saith : Is it because there is no in , that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.’
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And he said unto them: ‘What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?’
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And they answered him: ‘He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.’ And he said: ‘It is the Tishbite.’
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- 9 Then the sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him; and, behold, he sat on the top of the hill. And he spoke unto him: ‘O man of , the hath said: Come down.’
- 10 And answered and said to the captain of fifty: ‘If I be a man of , let fire come down from , and consume thee and thy fifty.’ And there came down fire from , and consumed him and his fifty.
- 11 And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him: ‘O man of , thus hath the said: Come down quickly.’
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And answered and said unto them: ‘If I be a man of , let fire come down from , and consume thee and thy fifty.’ And the fire of came down from , and consumed him and his fifty.
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- 13 And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before , and besought him, and said unto him: ‘O man of , I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
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Behold, there came fire down from , and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in thy sight’
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And the of said unto : ‘Go down with him; be not afraid of him.’ And he arose, and went down with him unto the .
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And he said unto him: ‘Thus saith : Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the of Ekron, is it because there is no in to inquire of His ? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whether thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.’
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So he died according to the of which had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat of ; because he had no son.
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Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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