The Tanach, with the evidence built in
This is the complete Hebrew Bible in the Jewish Publication Society translation. Wherever a real archaeological find bears on the text, those words are underlined in gold✦. Hover over them or tap them to see the artifact and what it confirms. From there, Next find takes you to the next underline, so you can tour a whole book’s evidence, and the share button turns the verse into an image.
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Chapter 4
1Hear this word, you cows of BashanOn the hill of Samaria—Who defraud the poor,Who rob the needy;Who say to your husbands,“Bring, and let’s carouse!”
2My Lord GOD swears by His holiness:Behold, days are coming upon youWhen you will be carried off in baskets,And, to the last one, in fish baskets,
3And taken out [of the city]—Each one through a breach straight ahead—And flung on the refuse heap—declares the LORD.
4Come to Bethel and transgress;To Gilgal, and transgress even more:Present your sacrifices the next morningAnd your tithes on the third day;
5And burn a thank offering of leavened bread;And proclaim freewill offerings loudly.For you love that sort of thing, O Israelites—declares my Lord GOD.
6I, on My part, have given youCleanness of teeth in all your towns,And lack of food in all your settlements.Yet you did not turn back to Me—declares the LORD.
7I therefore withheld the rain from youThree months before harvesttime:I would make it rain on one townAnd not on another;One field would be rained uponWhile another on which it did not rainWould wither.
8So two or three towns would wanderTo a single town to drink water,But their thirst would not be slaked.Yet you did not turn back to Me—declares the LORD.
9I scourged you with blight and mildew;Repeatedly your gardens and vineyards,Your fig trees and olive treesWere devoured by locusts.Yet you did not turn back to Me—declares the LORD.
10I sent against you pestilenceIn the manner of Egypt;I slew your young men with the sword,Together with your captured horses,And I made the stench of your armiesRise in your very nostrils.Yet you did not turn back to Me—declares the LORD.
11I have wrought destruction among youAs when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah;You have become like a brand plucked from burning.Yet you have not turned back to Me—declares the LORD.
12Assuredly,Because I am doing that to you,Even so will I act toward you, O Israel—Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
13Behold,He who formed the mountains,And created the wind,And has told man what His wish is,Who turns blackness into daybreak,And treads upon the high places of the earth—His name is the LORD, the God of Hosts.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).