1 And after him rose up Nathan to naḇa in the time of Dawiḏ. 2 As the fat is taken away from the peace offering, So Dawiḏ was chosen out of the children of Yisra’ĕl. 3 He played with lions as with young goats, And bears as with lambs. 4 Read more
1 Then Ĕliyahu the naḇi stood up as fire, And his word burned like a lamp. 2 He brought a severe scarcity of food upon them, And by his ardor he diminished their number. 3 By the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 he shut up the shamayim, And also brought down fire Read more
1 The remembrance of Yoshiyahu is like the composition of a perfume that is made with the skill of the perfumer; It is sweet as honey in all mouths, And as music at a feast of wine. 2 He acted uprightly by instructing the people, And took away the wicked Read more
1 Shim’on the kohĕn ha’gadol, the son of Onyah, Who in his life repaired the House again, And in his days fortified the Hĕyḵal; 2 And by him the double height from the foundation was built, The high fortress of the wall around the Hĕyḵal; 3 In his days the Read more
A Prayer of Yahoshua the son of Sira. 1 I thank you, O Aḏon and Sovereign, And praise You, O Elohim my Savior; I give praise to Your Name; 2 For You are my Defender and Helper, And have preserved my body from destruction, And from the snare of the Read more
1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar, who reigned in Ninewĕh, the great city; in the days of Arpaḵshaḏ, who reigned over the Maḏites in Aḥmetha, 2 and in Aḥmetha built walls round about of stones hewn three ammah wide and six ammah long, and made the Read more
1 And in the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, it was spoken in the house of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Ashshur that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth. 2 So he called all his officers to him, and all his nobles, and Read more
1 So they sent ambassadors to him to entreat for peace, saying, 2 “See, we the servants of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the great sovereign lie before you; use us as is good in your eyes. 3 “Look, our houses and all our places and all our fields of wheat and flocks and Read more
1 Now the children of Yisra’ĕl who dwelt in Yahuḏah, heard all that Holophernĕs the chief captain of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Ashshur had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples, and brought them to nought. 2 Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were Read more
1 Then it was declared to Holophernĕs, the chief captain of the army of Ashshur, that the children of Yisra’ĕl had prepared for battle and had shut up the passages of the hill country and had fortified all the tops of the high hills and had laid obstructions in the Read more