Lexicon :: Strong's G1984 - episkopē

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”

“When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom for his life to the LORD as they are registered. Then no plague will come on them as they are registered.

“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment.[fn] They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

“Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has oversight of the lamp oil, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, the holy objects and their utensils.”[fn]

the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestral families,[fn] presented an offering. They were the tribal leaders who supervised the registration.

“Your corpses will fall in this wilderness ​— ​all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more ​— ​because you have complained about me.

“If these men die naturally as all people would, and suffer the fate of all, then the LORD has not sent me.

These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends,[fn]

even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.

You inspect him every morning,

and put him to the test every moment.

“You gave me life and faithful love,

and your care has guarded my life.

From the city, men[fn] groan;

the mortally wounded cry for help,

yet God pays no attention to this crime.

I would be as I was in the days of my youth

when God’s friendship rested on my tent,

what could I do when God stands up to judge?

How should I answer him when he calls me to account?

For he has said, “A man gains nothing

when he becomes God’s friend.”

Let his days be few;

let another take over his position.

The poor and the oppressor have this in common:[fn]

the LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

What will you do on the day of punishment

when devastation comes from far away?

Who will you run to for help?

Where will you leave your wealth?

And at the end of the seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre and she will go back into business, prostituting herself with all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth.

They will be gathered together

like prisoners in a pit.

They will be confined to a dungeon;

after many days they will be punished.

you will be punished by the LORD of Armies

with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,

storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.

Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably?

They weren’t at all ashamed.

They can no longer feel humiliation.

Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.

When I punish them, they will collapse,

says the LORD.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked.

At the time of their punishment

they will be destroyed.

I will turn my face from them

as they profane my treasured place.

Violent men will enter it and profane it.