Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Announce there what I tell you.

So I, the Lord, say: “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley the Valley of Slaughter!

The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!

Amos replied to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.

I put this charge before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, in order that with such encouragement you may fight the good fight.

Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!

Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!

“Hazor will become a permanent wasteland, a place where only jackals live. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it.”

to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus,

The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

These were their names: Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

Ben-Deker was in charge of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan.

Jesse was the father of Eliab, his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family – may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.