<t /><p class="bodytext">Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, the tribal chief of Judah.

and his son Beerah, whom King Tiglath-pileser<n id="1" /> of Assyria carried into exile. Beerah<n id="2" /> was the tribal leader of Reuben.p>

I, the <sc>Lordsc>, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince<n id="1" /> among them; I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!p>

and say: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look,<n id="1" /> I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

He was accompanied by ten leaders, one from each of the Israelite tribes, each one a family leader among the Israelite clans.<n id="1" />

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her,<n id="1" /> and sexually assaulted her.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Whenever<n id="1" /> a leader, by straying unintentionally,<n id="2" /> sins and violates one of the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> his God which must not be violated,<n id="3" /> and he pleads guilty,

<p class="bodytext">Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed &#8211; the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman &#8211; was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan<n id="1" /> of the Simeonites.

<p class="bodytext">Solomon addressed all Israel, including those who commanded units of a thousand and a hundred, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel who were heads of families.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose day has come, the time of final punishment,p>

&#8220;Son of man, turn toward<n id="1" /> Gog,<n id="2" /> of the land of Magog,<n id="3" /> the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.<n id="4" /> Prophesy against him

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!

Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.&#8221;p>

&#8220;Listen, sir,<n id="1" /> you are a mighty prince<n id="2" /> among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you<n id="3" /> from burying your dead.&#8221;p>

&#8220;Send out men to investigate<n id="1" /> the land of Canaan, which I am giving<n id="2" /> to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe,<n id="3" /> each one a leader among them.&#8221;

because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived<n id="1" /> you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian,<n id="2" /> their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.&#8221;p>

I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it &#8211; they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.