Lexicon :: Strong's H1767 - day

‘But if he [fn]cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons as his guilt offering for his sin to the LORD, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

Then the Philistine commanders (princes) came out to battle, and it happened as often as they did, that David acted more wisely and had more success than all Saul’s servants. So his name was highly esteemed.

Now there came a day when Elisha went over to Shunem, where there was a prominent and influential woman, and she persuaded him to eat a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.

“As often as the trumpet sounds he says, ‘Aha!’

And he smells the battle from far away,

And senses the thunder of the captains and the war cry.

Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need,

Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.

And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food,

For the food of your household,

And for the maintenance of your maids.

“As often as it passes through, it will seize you;

For morning after morning it will pass through, by day and by night,

And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.”

And [the forests of] Lebanon cannot supply sufficient fuel to start a fire,

Nor are its wild beasts enough for a burnt offering [worthy of the LORD].

“And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon

And from Sabbath to Sabbath,

All mankind will come to bow down and worship before Me,” says the LORD.

For whenever I speak, I must shout out;

I shout violence and destruction,

Because the word of the LORD has become to me

A reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long.

“Is Ephraim My dear son?

Is he a darling and beloved child?

For as often as I have spoken against him,

I certainly still remember him.

Therefore My affection is renewed and My heart longs for him;

I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD.

“If grape gatherers came to you,

Would they not leave some ungleaned grapes [on the vines]?

If thieves came by night,

Would they not destroy [only] what is enough [for them]?

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“The [fn]broad wall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razed

And her high gates will be set on fire;

The peoples will labor in vain,

And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work].”

“If thieves came to you,

If robbers by night—

How you will be ruined!—

Would they not steal only until they had enough?

If grape gatherers came to you,

Would they not leave some grapes for gleaning?

The lion [of Assyria] tore enough for his cubs (Assyrian citizens),

Killed [enough prey] for his lionesses,

And filled his lairs with prey

And his dens with torn flesh.

“Is it not indeed from the LORD of hosts

That peoples labor [only] for the fire [that will destroy their work],

And nations grow weary for nothing [that is, things which have no lasting value]?

Then everyone who is left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).