פָּרַץ

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.

He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”

Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”

The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.

The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.

David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.

So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”

He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.