Then I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Because they hated knowledge and chose not the fear of Jehovah.

For of this they are willfully ignorant: that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,

And Jehovah the God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. Thus Israel gained possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that land.

And now Jehovah the God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites before His people Israel; should you then possess it?

I have made the earth, man, and the animals on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to Me.

And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be fed with grass like oxen. And you shall be wet with dew of the heavens; and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and He gives it to whomever He desires.

Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you: Even break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; so that perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.

At the end of twelve months, he was walking in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

While the word was still in the king's mouth a voice fell from the heavens, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: The kingdom has been taken away from you!

O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.

And Jehovah said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.

And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes, and good appearance. And Jehovah said, Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!

When your days are fulfilled and you have rested with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the strokes of the sons of men.

And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.

Thus Jehovah has fulfilled His word which He has spoken; and I have risen up in place of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah has promised; and I have built a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

And it shall be, when your days have been fulfilled to go to your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you from your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.

However Jehovah the God of Israel chose me above all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for He has chosen Judah as the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, He has been pleased to make me king over all Israel.

And of all my sons (for Jehovah has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah, over Israel.

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and said: I have placed help upon a mighty one; I have exalted a chosen one out of the people.

with whom My hand shall be established; My arm also shall strengthen him.

I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him.

I will also set his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.

And I will make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

His seed also I have ordained eternally, and His throne as the days of Heaven.

if they break My Statutes and do not keep My Commandments,

Nevertheless in My lovingkindness I will not crush him, nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David:

it shall be established forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the clouds. Selah

then also may My covenant with David My servant be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who serve Me.

then I will cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their captives, and have mercy on them.

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS.

And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

And every offering of your grain offerings you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offerings. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto Jehovah, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance; it is a covenant of salt always before Jehovah with you and your seed with you.

And you shall offer them before Jehovah, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to Jehovah.

For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.