Lexicon :: Strong's H5203 - nāṭaš

Now there went forth a wind from the LORD and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall [so they flew low] beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and on the other side, all around the camp, about two cubits (three feet) deep on the surface of the ground.

“But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God].

You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate!

Then he abandoned God who had made him,

And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Then the [army of the] Philistines came up and camped in [the tribal territory of] Judah, and overran Lehi (Jawbone).

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, picked up the provisions and went just as Jesse had directed him. And he came to the encampment as the army was going out in battle formation shouting the battle cry.

Now Eliab his oldest brother heard what he said to the men; and Eliab’s [fn]anger burned against David and he said, “Why have you come down here? With whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption (overconfidence) and the evil of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

When he brought David down, the Amalekites had disbanded and spread over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

The Philistines came up once again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

Do not hide Your face from me,

Do not turn Your servant away in anger;

You have been my help;

Do not abandon me nor [fn]leave me,

O God of my salvation!

So that He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,

The tent in which He had dwelled among men,

For the LORD will not abandon His people,

Nor will He abandon His inheritance.

My son, hear the instruction of your father,

And do not reject the teaching of your mother.

My son, be guided by your father’s [God-given] commandment (instruction)

And do not [fn]reject the teaching of your mother;

The beginning of strife is like letting out water [as from a small break in a dam; first it trickles and then it gushes];

Therefore [fn]abandon the quarrel before it breaks out and tempers explode.

Most certainly [LORD] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines;

Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans).

For the fields of Heshbon have languished and withered, and the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down [Moab’s] choice vine branches,

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness;

Its tendrils stretched out, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

For they have fled from the swords,

From the drawn sword, from the bent bow

And from the press of battle and grief of war.

For the palace has been abandoned, the populated city deserted;

The hill [of the city] and the watchtower have become caves [for wild animals] forever,

A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Your ship’s ropes (tackle) hang loose;

They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,

Nor spread out the sail.

Then an abundance of spoil and plunder will be divided;

Even the lame will take the plunder.

‘Cut off your hair [your crown, O Jerusalem] and throw it away,

And take up a mournful cry on the barren heights,

For the LORD has rejected and abandoned

The generation of His wrath.’

“I have abandoned My house,

I have given up My [precious] inheritance (Judah);

I have given the [dearly] beloved of My life

Into the hands of her enemies.

“You have abandoned (rejected) Me,” says the LORD.

“You keep going backward.

Therefore I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;

I am tired of delaying [your punishment]!

“Now when this people or a prophet or a priest asks you [in jest], ‘What is the [fn]oracle of the LORD [the burden to be lifted up and carried]?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘What oracle [besides the one that declares you people to be the burden]!’ The LORD says, ‘I will unburden Myself and I will abandon you.’

“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers;

You will fall on the open field; and you will not be gathered up or buried.

I have given you as food to the [wild] animals of the earth and the birds of the sky.

“Then I will leave you (Egypt) on the land;

I will hurl you on the open field.

And I will make all the birds of the sky dwell on you,

And I will satisfy the animals of all the earth with you.

Ephraim has provoked most bitter anger;

So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him [invoking punishment]

And bring back to him his shame and dishonor.

She has fallen, she will not rise again—

The virgin Israel.

She lies neglected on her land;

There is no one to raise her up.