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O thou inhabitant of Lachish , bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion : for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah , and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

Shelah was Judah ’s son. Shelah ’s sons were Er, Laadah , Jokim , the men from Cozeba , Joash , and Saraph . Er was the father of Lecah. Laadah was the father of Mareshah and the tribes of linen workers at Beth Ashbea. Joash and Saraph married Moabite women. Then they went back to Bethlehem . The writings about this family are very old.

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel , and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Declare ye it not at Gath , weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

For your all-powerful hand, That created the world out of formless matter, Lacked not means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

And they departed from Tahath , and pitched at Tarah.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea .

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

And out of the tribe of Issachar ; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath –rimmon with her suburbs:

And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel , which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah .

Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered .

Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter, Lest she make you a laughing stock to your enemies, A byword in the city and notorious among the people, And shame you before the multitude.

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished himself in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter there because they were near of kin;

And they called the name of the city Dan , after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel : howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the Lord: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.