Woe to you, Moab! You are lost, O people of Chemosh! Their sons are sold for preservation, and their daughters are captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.

And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by the Jordan toward Jericho.

then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved before the face of the children of Israel.

And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people have come out of Egypt, and behold, they have covered the face of the earth, and have encamped close to me.

And the elders of Moab went, and the elders of Midian, and their divining [instruments were] in their hands; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with you?

Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and they have encamped near to me; and now come, curse them for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite them, and cast them out of the land.

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you.

And Balak yet again sent more princes, and more honorable than they.

For I will greatly honor you, and will do for you whatsoever you shall say; come then, curse this people for me.

And now, you also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing opposite in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand, then the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. And [Balaam] struck the donkey with his staff to direct her in the way.

And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall, and he struck her again.

And when the donkey saw the Angel of God, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam was angry, and struck the donkey with his staff.

And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me; and if I had a sword in my hand, I would now have killed you.

And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel of the Lord withstanding [him] in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand, and he stooped down and worshipped on his face.

And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I would have killed you, and would have saved her alive.

And the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men: nevertheless the word which I shall speak to you, you shall take heed to speak. And Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you to call you? Why have you not come to me? Shall I not indeed be able to honor you?

And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to the cities of streets.

And it was morning; and Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to the pillar of Baal, and showed him from there the extent of the people.

Now when Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he did not go according to his custom, to seek to use sorcery, but turned his face toward the wilderness.

And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open says,

How wonderful [are] your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings, O Israel!

There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of God shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased.

He lies down, he rests as a lion; and as a young lion, who shall rouse him? Those that bless you are blessed, and those that curse you are cursed.

Now therefore flee to your place. I said, I will honor you, but now the Lord has deprived you of glory.

If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatsoever things God shall say, them will I speak.

And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open,

I will point to Him, but not now; I bless Him, but He draws not near: a Star shall arise out of Jacob, a Man shall spring forth out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.

And [One] shall arise out of Jacob, and destroy out of the city him that escapes.

And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Your dwelling place [is] strong; yet though you should put your nest in a rock,

And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live, when God shall do these things?

And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balak went to his own home.

And the Lord said to me, Do not quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Ar to the children of Lot, to inherit.

and you shall draw near to the children of Ammon: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.

The Ammonite and Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even forever;

And these are the nations which the Lord left, that He might test Israel by them, [that is,] all that had not known the wars of Canaan.

The five lordships of the Philistines, and every Canaanite, and the Sidonian, and the Hivite who dwelt in Lebanon from the mount of Hermon to Hamath.

And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalam and the groves.

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and the Lord raised up a deliverer to Israel, and he delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

And the land was quiet forty years; and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

And he gathered to himself all the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel, and took possession of the City of Palm Trees.

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and He raised up to them a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglon king of Moab.

And he went, and brought the presents to Eglon king of Moab. And Eglon [was] a very handsome man.

And he himself returned from the quarries that are by Gilgal. And Ehud said, I have a secret message for you, O king! And Eglon said to him, Be silent. And he sent away from his presence all who waited upon him.

And it came to pass as he arose, that Ehud stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger off his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly;

And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed [guards], and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked [them].

And they waited till they were ashamed, and behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them. And behold, their master was fallen down dead upon the ground.

And it came to pass when Ehud came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in Mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he was before them.

And they struck Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty [person] and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.

And after him rose up Shamgar the son of Anath, and struck the Philistines to the number of six hundred men with a plow share [such as is drawn by] oxen; and he too delivered Israel.

Moreover I have bought for myself for a wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; so the name of the dead shall not be destroyed from among his brothers, and from the tribe of his people: you [are] witnesses this day.

And it came to pass after this, that David attacked the Philistines, and put them to flight, and David took the tribute from out of the hand of the Philistines.

Then David attacked Hadadezer the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to extend his power to the River Euphrates.

And Syria of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David struck down twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

And David took the golden bracelets which were on the servants of Hadadezer king of Zobah, and brought them to Jerusalem. And Susakim king of Egypt took them, when he went up to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam son of Solomon.

And Toi the king of Hemath heard that David had defeated all the armies of Hadadezer.

And these King David consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and with the gold which he consecrated out of all the cities which he conquered,

And David made [himself] a name. And when he returned he struck Edom in Gebelem to [the number of] eighteen thousand.

And David reigned over all Israel: and David brought about judgment and justice over all his people.

And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, [were] priests; and Seraiah [was] the scribe,

Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign in Israel in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.

Only he adhered to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not from it.

And it came to pass, after the death of Ahab, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to war? And he said, I will go up: you are as I [am], [and] I am as you; as my people, so [are] your people, as my horses, so [are] your horses.

And the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they marched on that roundabout route for seven days; and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that went with them.

And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, [There is] here Elisha son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.

And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, Has the Lord called the three kings to deliver them into the hands of Moab?

And now fetch me a harpist. And it came to pass, as the harpist played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

For thus says the Lord: You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain, yet this valley shall be filled with water, and you and your flocks and your cattle shall drink.

And you shall smite every strong city, and you shall cut down every good tree, and you shall stop all wells of water, and spoil every good piece [of land] with stones.

And all Moab heard that the three kings had come up to fight against them. And they cried out on every [side, even] all that were girded with a belt, and they said, Lo! And stood upon the border.

And they said, This [is] the blood of the sword; and the kings have fought, and each man has killed his neighbor; now then to the spoils, O Moab!

And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece [of land] and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left [only] the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers surrounded [the land], and attacked it.

And he took his eldest son whom he had designed to reign in his place, and offered him up for a whole burnt offering on the walls. And there was a great indignation against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their land.